Berzelius Stolberg (known today as Ecobat Resources Stolberg) is founded.

The NOCO Company is founded in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio.

The BLM site (Ecobat Resources UK) in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, starts production.

They are home to one of the UK's most advanced rolling mills, state of the art robotic finishing lines, and the UK’s largest recycling facility for lead recovered from construction demolition.

Castle Lead Workers Leaders begins manufacturing lead products. The location is known today as Ecobat Resources Krugersdorp.

The ECOBAT S.R.L. Paderno, Italy (Ecobat Resources Italy) facility is founded.

Zinchem, based in Benoni South Africa, is founded by the Anglo-American Corporation. The company is known today as Ecobat Resources Benoni.

Fry’s Metals (Ecobat Resources Germiston, Guateng Wadeville), based in Wadeville Germiston, begins operating.

The company continues to be South Africa’s leading environmentally responsible lead recycling operation.

Zimalco, based in Guateng South Africa, is founded. Zimalco is known today as Ecobat Resources Benoni.

Along with many decades of experience, the company stands out among its peers as the leader in technical innovation.

Sondor Performance Foams (Ecobat Resources Cape Town) is established.

Ecobat Battery Technologies, formerly Manbat Ltd and before that Manchester Batteries, is founded by Harry Pemberton, in Turnpike Cottages in Abergele, North Wales. Today, operations are known as Ecobat Battery UK.

Dutton Plastics Engineering (Ecobat Resources Alberton) is founded to produce dies for metal pressings.

Quemetco (Ecobat Resources California) begins recycling batteries.

Approximately 10 million batteries are recycled at Quemetco annually, producing 120,000 tons of recycled lead for use in new products.

The ECOBAT S.R.L. Marcianise, Italy, facility (Ecobat Resources Italy) is founded.

POLITEC (Ecobat Resources Bologna) is founded as an engineered plastic producer.

Dutton Plastics Engineering (Ecobat Resources Alberton) becomes part of the Zimco Group of Companies.

The Zimco Group of Companies is South Africa’s leading producer of industrial and base minerals and a major producer and supplier of zinc, lead, aluminum metal and alloys, related chemicals, and engineering plastics.

BSB Recycling GmbH (Ecobat Resources Braubach), based in Braubach, Germany, opens their polypropylene compounding plant.

Muldenhütten Recycling und Umwelttechnik GmbH (Ecobat Resources Freiberg) is founded.

H J Enthoven & Sons, British Lead Mills, and Le Plomb Francais (now known as Ecobat Resources) are acquired by Ecobat Technologies from Billiton, then owned by Royal Dutch/Shell.

The facilities in Milan and Naples that will become Ecobat S.p.A. are acquired from ENI Resource.

Berzelius Metall, Berzelius Stolberg, BSB, MRU, BMG Austria and STCM are acquired from Metallgesellschaft.

Zimco (Ecobat Resources Germiston) is purchased from Anglo American and Cookson Group by Ecobat.

City of Industry facility (Ecobat Resources California) comes under Ecobat ownership.

Sondor Performance Foams (Ecobat Resources Cape Town) is acquired by Ecobat. APSM (Ecobat Resources Paris) is acquired from Exide.

MANBAT (Ecobat Battery UK) introduces Numax to the market.

Middletown (Ecobat Resources New York) and Indianapolis (Ecobat Resources Indianapolis) facilities come under Ecobat ownership.

Ecobat begins collecting lithium and other non-Pb batteries after its acquisition of G&P Battery, now Ecobat Solutions.

Ecobat acquires Voggenthaler and Roland and Popp, which later becomes Berzelius Logistics (now Ecobat Logistics).

Ecobat takes ownership of Manbat, and Manbat (Ecobat Battery UK) signs a 10 year licensing contract for the Lucas brand.

Roger Pemberton retires as Managing Director of Manbat, and Steve Sheppard takes over. Manbat has been France’s leading battery specialist since 2009.

Compass Batteries is purchased by Manbat (Ecobat Battery UK). The NXPE DIVISION of Sondor (Ecobat Resources Cape Town) starts to manufacture Aerothene and Bubble wrap.

Battery Power Systems is acquired by Manbat (Ecobat Battery UK), and along with Compass Batteries, combined to create the Manbat Industrial Division.

HEFRA (Ecobat Battery Netherlands) and AccuCentrale (Ecobat Battery Belgium) join Ecobat.

Batteries Accus Technologies (BAT) becomes part of the Ecobat group, incorporating the European battery distribution division, and is renamed Manbat France (now Ecobat Battery France).

The collection of lithium household batteries begins in Germany.

Manbat (Ecobat Battery UK) acquires Powercell into the Industrial Division. Ecobat acquires Five Star Batteries and Powercell in the UK and Atlantis Metals in Africa.

Zimalco (Ecobat Resources Benoni) wins SEIFSA's Most Innovative Company of the Year 2015 award.

Manbat U.K, Manbat France and HEFRA rebrand to Ecobat Battery Technologies (now Ecobat Battery).

Sondor establishes national bubble wrap operations, as well as Aerothene to Gauteng. Ecobat acquires South Yorkshire Batteries.

POLITEC (now Ecobat Resources Bologna) joins the Ecobat group.

Ecobat Battery launches a lithium battery range that covers motorcycle and golf applications.

RSR Technologies, Inc. (Ecobat Solutions) is awarded the 2019 Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Innovation Award.

Battery Council International (BCI) annually presents this award to celebrate innovation in equipment, processes, services and products that advance the lead battery industry. RSR Technologies' active R&D initiative in the secondary lead industry has produced a new alloy, SUPERSOFT-HYCYCLE, enabling lead batteries to function at 2x current standards. Use of the Advanced Photon Source at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has helped verify this improvement. The alloy improves cycle life, dynamic charge acceptance and capacity.

Ecobat becomes the prime UK distributor for Exide.

The disassembly of automotive lithium batteries begins for the reclamation of second use cells at our facility in Darlaston West Midlands UK.

All operating companies rebrand under the name Ecobat, including four divisions: Ecobat Resources, Ecobat Logistics, Ecobat Battery, and Ecobat Solutions.

Promesa (Ecobat Solutions Hettstedt Germany) is acquired, adding crushing and sorting capabilities to our lithium battery recycling services.

Ecobat becomes the only European provider of collection, discharge and diagnostics, dismantling and crushing/sorting capabilities to derive black mass.

Ecobat to Build New Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Facility in Arizona

Ecobat announces it is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. The new facility in Casa Grande, Arizona will initially produce 10,000 estimated tones of recycled material per year.

To concentrate the Company’s portfolio on the core business of battery recycling in the circular energy economy, Ecobat completes the sale of Ecobat Resources Stolberg GmbH to Trafigura, a market leader in the global commodities industry.

Ecobat Divests South Africa Business to AutoX

Continuing the rationalization of its portfolio, Ecobat has completed the divestiture of Zimco Group, its lead and industrial operations in southern Africa, to AutoX.