Inside Our Taloja, Maharashtra Battery Recycling Hub

What the site does

Taloja MIDC in Navi Mumbai is a chemical and engineering estate close to Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the vast Mumbai metropolitan market. The consolidation yard opened in 2021 to handle hazardous battery loads from Mumbai's taxi, ride-hailing and delivery fleets, its dealer networks, and consignments moving through the port, all of which need somewhere safe to gather before travelling further.

With 16,000 TPA of throughput, the yard concentrates on safe storage, de-energising and consolidation rather than processing. Its hazmat specialism means it is the network's preferred receiving point for damaged, defective and recalled packs across the Mumbai region, which are held in segregated, monitored storage before moving to a processing site under the stricter transport rules that apply to them.

What arrives at the gate

Feedstock at Taloja, Maharashtra reflects its catchment and plant type. Every consignment is weighed, photographed and logged against the originating manifest before it enters the process area.

Damaged, defective and recalled packs from the Mumbai region
Taxi, ride-hailing and delivery fleet retirements
Port-related consignments near JNPT
Dealer-network collections across Mumbai and Thane

The process, step by step

The 3 operating lines — hazmat transport staging, pack de-energising, module sorting & consolidation — run the sequence below.

Stage	What happens
Booking & manifest	Pickup is scheduled against an approved manifest listing chemistry, pack count, mass and damage status.
Packaging supply	UN 3480 / UN 3481 approved containers, vermiculite and Class 9 labelling are supplied free on registration.
Collection & transit	ADR-class vehicles with trained hazmat crews and GPS telemetry move consignments to the yard.
Weighbridge intake	Consignments are weighed, photographed and reconciled against the manifest within 24 hours of arrival.
De-energising & sorting	Packs are discharged to safe state of charge and sorted by chemistry and destination plant.
Onward dispatch	Sorted material is dispatched to the assigned grading or refining plant with a full chain-of-custody record.

Process sequence at the Taloja, Maharashtra reverse logistics yard.

What sets the site apart

Hazmat consolidation specialist. Segregated, monitored storage for damaged and thermal-event packs, with trained crews for handling them.

Port proximity. Close to JNPT for consignments that involve import or export documentation.

Urban fleet pickups. Smaller collection vehicles reach congested Mumbai sites where full-size trucks cannot operate.

Where material goes next

Material that Taloja, Maharashtra does not finish on site moves to the nearest specialist facility in the network, keeping transport distances and dwell times down.

Facility	Role	Distance
Indore — Pithampur Grading Plant	Cell Grading & Diagnostics	475 km
Nagpur — Butibori Second-Life Works	Second-Life BESS Works	644 km
Chennai — Sriperumbudur Recovery Campus	Hydrometallurgical Refinery	998 km

Onward routing from Taloja, Maharashtra (straight-line distance).

Field note

City pickups use smaller vehicles; tell us about height limits, basement access or restricted loading hours.

Frequently asked questions

Does Taloja handle fire-damaged batteries?

Yes. It is the network's hazmat consolidation point for the Mumbai region and holds damaged and defective packs in isolated, monitored storage.

Can you collect from central Mumbai?

Yes. Smaller collection vehicles are used where access or loading-time restrictions rule out full-size trucks.

Do you collect small volumes near Taloja, Maharashtra?

Yes, though consolidated pickups of eight or more packs give better per-unit logistics economics. Workshops with occasional single packs are pooled into a scheduled regional milk run.