Financial Model Template for a Battery Recycling Plant Startup

This model arrives in between manufacturing and renewable energy. We are talking about battery recycling, which appears to be something that will grow in demand as more things start to run on batteries instead of gasoline. Battery technology improvements are driving this and once batteries run out of their useful lives, we need a nice way to deal with that waste.....enter battery recycling!

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battery recycling

I've been trying to build a financial model for something to do with batteries for the better part of two years and couldn't find a good entry. With battery recycling, I've landed on a useful template.

Template Features:

  • Model up to 10 years.
  • Includes a fully integrated 3-statement model.
  • Includes a DCF Analysis, IRR, and investor / operator views.
  • Monthly and Annual pro forma views (detailed).
  • Executive Summary (high level view down to cash flow).
  • 21 charts and graphs.
  • All assumptions are dynamic, model is fully editable and unlocked.
Revenue Assumptions:
  • Configure up to four feedstock intake channels and inbound per month by tonne.
  • Up to 3 acquisition channels (tolled, gated, and recycler bidding)
  • Decide between refining only to black mass (BM) or further refining into metals.
  • Forward pricing assumptions per tonne for all products / by-products and other pricing.
  • Define BM yield from each category and value per tonne by category.
  • Adjust metal pricing / product output pricing over time.
Direct / Indirect Costs:
  • Configure indirect fixed costs like lighting, non-direct utilities, supervisors, and so-forth.
  • Configure direct labor costs by work center (shifts / count / salaries and so forth).
  • Define cost per tonne for total feedstock intake and different costs for each in-bound channel.
  • Define cost per tonne of BM refined, selling costs of BM per tonne, and selling costs of product outputs per tonne.
You will have charts that show average total revenue, cost, and profit per tonne.

Other Items:
  • Full construction cost / equipment cost schedule with depreciation assumptions.
  • Sales, General, and Administrative cost sections.
  • Construction loan and two operating loan configurations.
  • Outputs for IRR, equity multiple, ROI, and minimum cash required.
  • Sources and Uses summary.
I went as deep as I could with this model and if you are looking to model various scenarios for a battery recycling plant, costs, and returns on those costs, this template has enough detail to get close, but is high level enough for most people to use.

The most challenging part about this template was building the best flow of logic from feedstock acquired to all the things that can happen to that in the refining cycle. Trying to make something dynamic enough to handle the most common scenarios, while ensuring the logic tracked with how the actual recycling plants work was complex. I feel I've done an excellent job capturing all the permutations and making this usable for pricing / cost analysis and overall plant feasibility analysis.

Remember, all yellow cells are input cells and everything else is a formula. I am available for custom financial model work here.

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