Technology empowers industry; circularity lights up the future. On March 23, 2026, Siemens’ inaugural Global Technology Conference grandly opened at the Beijing International Convention Center. As a Siemens ecosystem partner, North Star Recycling made a high-profile appearance in the ecosystem exhibition zone, showcasing its low-carbon technologies, digital solutions, and full-chain closed-loop achievements in the field of battery recycling, resonating with ecosystem partners to jointly explore the intelligent, globalized new pathways of the new-energy circular industry.
Held at the Beijing International Convention Center on March 23-24, 2026, Siemens’ inaugural Global Technology Conference, themed “Gathering Ecosystem Intelligence, Realizing the Future,” brought together over a thousand industry leaders, technology pioneers, and developers. Focusing on core tracks such as industrial AI, digital twins, smart manufacturing, and zero-carbon transformation, the event presented for the first time in China Siemens’ full-stack capabilities spanning electrification, automation, digitalization, and intelligence. Through its “ONE Tech Company” program, Siemens drives the deep implementation of AI into industry, and with 26 locally developed new products and a 3,000 m2 immersive ecosystem exhibition zone, it sounded a resounding chord of China-style industrial innovation.
Roland Busch, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Siemens; Xiao Song, Global Executive Vice President of Siemens, Chairman, President and CEO of Siemens China; along with Joseph Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group; Wang Xingxing, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Unitree Robotics; and Ni Jun, Chief Manufacturing Officer of CATL and Co-President of the Engineering and R&D Systems, among others, attended the event.
On-Site Dialogue of Industry Luminaries: Dr. Zhang Tao Decodes Circular Carbon Reduction and Global Market Breakthrough
On the first day of the conference, Dr. Zhang Tao, Chairman and General Manager of North Star Recycling, was invited to the In-Depth Technical Forum. Together with Dr. Yan Tao, Head of Networks and Information Security at Siemens and Head of the SiGREEN business, he used an in-depth Q&A format to break down the integration logic of circular economy, low-carbon emission reduction, and industrial digitalization for the on-site guests and partners, directly addressing industry pain points and globalization challenges.
Speaking about the original intention of entering the battery recycling track, Dr. Zhang Tao stated that it is both a necessary response to the rigid demand for battery recycling brought by the explosive growth of the new-energy vehicle and energy storage industries – a mandatory task to solve the pollution problem of retired batteries and ensure the sustainable development of the industry – and a technological inevitability anchored in the global trends of low-carbon and digitalization. Breaking through traditional high-carbon-emission treatment processes, North Star Recycling achieves safe pretreatment and resource recovery of electrolyte through shredding of charged batteries and efficient component recovery technology, while embedding the low-carbon concept throughout its full-process solutions.
Facing the export barriers brought by the EU carbon tariff and the implementation of the Battery Regulation, Dr. Zhang Tao shared North Star Recycling’s breakthrough approach: leveraging AI technology to accurately account for carbon data, empowering export-oriented SMEs and platform clients with carbon-reduction management, and turning compliance costs into green competitive advantages; responding to the new domestic battery recycling policies by building a compliant traceability system with digital technology, using data to substantiate the identity of recycled materials, perfectly meeting EU regulatory requirements; while also deepening full lifecycle battery management, iterating and upgrading functional modules to meet multiple overseas data supervision and battery passport generation needs.
Dr. Zhang Tao emphasized that circularity and carbon reduction are inherently symbiotic: mining and smelting of raw materials is the highest carbon-consuming stage of the battery industry chain, and increasing the use of recycled materials is precisely the core battleground for industry decarbonization. Looking ahead to global expansion, Chinese battery recycling enterprises combine the advantages of technology, efficiency, and cost. By leveraging AI to enable the intelligent replication of flexible recycling experience, and upholding the philosophy of openness and win-win cooperation with local partners, they will surely break through overseas barriers and seize the initiative in the industry.
Ecosystem Synergy Toward the New: Jointly Opening a New Chapter of Green, Circular, High-Quality Development
The inaugural Siemens Global Technology Conference is not only a stage for showcasing cutting-edge technology, but also a platform for ecosystem collaboration and cross-boundary innovation. As a benchmark in the battery recycling industry, North Star Recycling is deeply integrated into the Siemens ecosystem, tightly binding its low-carbon circular technology with industrial AI and digital capabilities, achieving a leapfrog upgrade from a single technology provider to a green circular system solution provider and a standard exporter.
In the future, North Star Recycling will continue to deepen its strategic cooperation with Siemens, closely following the core direction of “AI + circular economy,” focusing on key areas such as full lifecycle battery management, global carbon management and control, and compliance system building, linking more upstream and downstream partners to build a complete industry ecosystem. Empowering green transformation with technology and assisting the high-quality global expansion of China’s new-energy circular industry with innovation, it will write a brilliant answer of mutual prosperity between industrial new-quality productivity and sustainable development.