Recently, the Grand Final of the 2026 “Maker in China” (Qingdao Division) and the 12th “Mayor’s Cup” · Haichuanghui · SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition came to a successful close. North Star Advanced Recycling Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. stood out in the fiercely competitive Enterprise Group with its project “Building a New Ecosystem for Standardized Lithium Battery Recycling,” and was awarded the Second Prize.
Centered on the theme of “empowering innovation, supporting entrepreneurship and serving enterprises,” this year’s competition ran for more than five months and collected 642 high-quality innovation and entrepreneurship projects. Focusing on Qingdao’s “10+1” innovative industry directions, it identified and nurtured a group of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative hard-core technology companies, and built a platform for deep alignment among industry, capital and policy. As a benchmark event in Qingdao’s innovation and entrepreneurship landscape, the “Mayor’s Cup” has become an important vehicle for cultivating new quality productive forces and activating the innovative vitality of SMEs.
North Star Recycling focuses on the industry’s safety, environmental and low-carbon pain points, and is committed to building a new ecosystem for standardized lithium battery recycling. It delivers full-chain solutions spanning battery collection, intelligent dismantling and high-value material regeneration, tackling industry challenges with digital-intelligent green processes and supporting the sustainable development of the power battery industry.
The competition brings together government and enterprise resources, venture capital, industry experts and university research platforms, forming a full-cycle technology innovation service system covering pre-competition incubation, in-competition empowerment and post-competition follow-up. It precisely helps high-quality projects take root and technological achievements be commercialized, offering enterprises an outstanding platform for resource matching and growth. Winning this award is not only authoritative recognition of North Star Recycling’s technological strength and business model, but also an important opportunity to connect with industry resources and embrace the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Looking ahead, North Star Recycling will continue to deepen its work in the new-energy resource recycling sector, persist in technological innovation, refine its core equipment and processes, and clear the bottlenecks in the lithium battery recycling industry. At the same time, it will actively integrate into Qingdao’s broader innovation and development agenda, leveraging the high-quality platforms of “Maker in China” and the “Mayor’s Cup” to connect capital, industry and research resources, continuously improve the standardized lithium battery recycling system, and support the high-quality development of the green and low-carbon industry through circular technology innovation — contributing North Star’s strength to Qingdao’s cultivation of new quality productive forces.