The world generates more electronic waste than ever before. Discarded batteries, obsolete circuit boards, and scrap cables pile up in landfills, creating both environmental hazards and missed economic opportunities. For entrepreneurs and established recyclers alike, the challenge is not just collecting this material — it is finding reliable, efficient equipment that transforms waste into recoverable resources. That is exactly where San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd has spent nearly two decades focusing its expertise.
A Full-Spectrum Approach to E-Waste Recycling
Founded in 2007 and based in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, San Lan Technologies has grown from a regional machinery provider into an international recycling equipment supplier serving customers across more than 21 countries. The company does not merely manufacture individual machines; it designs and delivers integrated recycling plants that handle the entire process from raw waste to refined output.
San Lan’s product portfolio spans 13 major categories and approximately 60 individual products. Whether a client needs to process used lead acid batteries, lithium-ion cells, printed circuit boards, or mixed cable scrap, the company offers a matching solution with documented capacity, recovery rates, and operational specifications.
Lead Acid Battery Recovery That Pays for Itself
Used lead acid batteries represent one of the most recyclable — and profitable — waste streams in the recycling industry. San Lan’s lead acid battery recycling equipment line covers every stage of the process. The journey starts with the HBC-045 hydraulic cutter, which splits batteries and drains acid safely in roughly 45 seconds per unit. From there, the breaking and separation system classifies components into lead grid, lead paste, plastic shells, and hard rubber, operating at capacities between 1 and 10 metric tons per hour.
Downstream, San Lan provides de-sulfurization units that reduce sulfur content in lead paste before smelting, cutting energy consumption and emissions. Clients can choose between rotary furnaces or blast cupola furnaces for paste reduction, depending on local fuel availability and environmental regulations. The lead refinery kettle then brings crude lead to 99.999% purity, with an electric heating option that saves 30–50% on energy compared to conventional fuel-fired systems. A dedicated water treatment plant and air pollution control system ensure the entire operation meets modern environmental standards.
Capturing Value from Lithium-Ion Batteries
As electric vehicles and consumer electronics proliferate, lithium battery waste is becoming a critical feedstock. San Lan’s lithium battery recycling plant handles capacities from 500 to 2,500 kilograms per hour, breaking down cells to recover black mass containing nickel, cobalt, and graphite, along with separated copper, aluminum, and plastic fractions.
The system includes safety-focused preprocessing such as discharging and pre-crushing, followed by secondary granulation and magnetic separation of iron and steel. Ancillary equipment — including plastic pneumatic conveyors, hydraulic briquetters that achieve 10:1 volume compression, and dedicated air pollution control — rounds out a complete plant configuration tailored to the customer’s input material and target products.
Circuit Board and Cable Processing Lines
Printed circuit boards contain copper, precious metals, and resin that should never reach a landfill. San Lan offers both dry and wet separation circuit board recycling equipment, with capacities ranging from 300 kg/hour for smaller operations up to 2,000 kg/hour for industrial-scale facilities. Dry separation plants equipped with air separators, vibrating screens, and electrostatic separators achieve copper powder purity of 96–98% with recovery rates around 95%, while wet separation alternatives handle boards still carrying electronic components.
On the cable side, San Lan’s cable recycling equipment includes scrap cable strippers for diameters from 1.5 mm to 150 mm, as well as high-capacity cable granulators with dry separators that turn mixed wire scrap into clean copper or aluminum granules separated from plastic insulation. Models such as the WCD-200C and WCD-600S cater to different throughput requirements, giving clients flexibility to match equipment scale to available feedstock.
Beyond Standard Equipment: The EPC Advantage
What separates San Lan from catalog-style machinery vendors is its end-to-end project capability. The company’s engineering team includes mechanical engineering master’s degree holders with over 15 years of direct experience in e-waste recycling machine design and plant commissioning. This depth allows San Lan to act as an EPC contractor — handling engineering, procurement, and construction — rather than simply shipping equipment and leaving integration to the buyer.
Before any machinery order is finalized, San Lan conducts free on-site or remote investigations covering local energy sources, environmental policies, additive availability, and output market conditions. This upfront work feeds into customized plant layouts, furnace selection, and heater configuration, reducing the risk of mismatched equipment or compliance issues after installation. The typical project flow moves from initial communication and contract signing through design approval, production, shipment, installation, commissioning, training, and final acceptance — with milestone payments tied to verified progress rather than arbitrary schedules.
Additional Machinery for Comprehensive Operations
San Lan’s catalog extends well beyond the core battery, board, and cable lines. The company manufactures refrigerator and air conditioner recycling plants that safely extract refrigerant before shredding and separating metals, plastics, and polyurethane with recovery rates exceeding 90% across each fraction. For legacy electronics, CRT cutters using either Ni-chrome heating wire or diamond blades separate monitor glass and funnel components while capturing phosphor powder. Motor stator cutters dismantle electric motors to recover copper windings from iron cores. A range of shredders — single-shaft, twin-shaft, and four-shaft models — provides preprocessing capacity for virtually any e-waste or recyclable material stream.
Supporting equipment includes hydraulic balers and briquetting machines for dense packaging of recycled materials, medium-frequency induction furnaces for melting recovered metals into ingots, and even nano ceramic grinding media for clients involved in mineral ore fine grinding. This breadth allows San Lan to serve as a single purchasing center for recyclers who want consistent technical standards across an entire facility rather than mixing suppliers.
Global Footprint, Local Understanding
San Lan’s customer list spans Singapore, Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Tunisia, India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Zambia, Israel, and beyond. This geographic diversity has required the company to adapt its designs to different voltage standards, environmental regulations, labor skill levels, and feedstock characteristics. The team is essentially bilingual in English and Chinese, and its project history includes helping customers source waste material inputs — such as cable scrap, PCB scrap, and used lead acid batteries — as well as connecting them with buyers for recovered outputs like copper rice, lead ingots, and aluminum granules.
Why Equipment Buyers Choose San Lan
Several factors keep San Lan competitive in a crowded machinery market. First, the company controls the full manufacturing chain for its core equipment, allowing customization of capacity, layout, and auxiliary systems without the markup of trading companies. Second, the free engineering and market investigation services before procurement reduce the buyer’s risk of investing in poorly matched technology. Third, installation and commissioning support means the plant reaches designed throughput and recovery rates under real operating conditions, not just on paper. Finally, the willingness to help clients secure raw material supply and product offtake agreements turns San Lan from a vendor into a long-term business partner.
Start Your Recycling Project with a Proven Partner
If you are planning a new e-waste recycling facility or upgrading an existing operation, equipment selection will determine your recovery rates, operating costs, and environmental compliance for years to come. San Lan Technologies offers the product range, technical depth, and project experience to design a plant that matches your specific waste stream and market goals. Visit www.san-lan.com to explore the full equipment catalog, review detailed specifications, or initiate a project consultation with San Lan’s engineering team.
