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Tozero announces first delivery of recycled lithium carbonate to customers

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Tozero announces first delivery of recycled lithium carbonate to customers

The German lithium-ion battery recycling startup Tozero has delivered its first recycled lithium carbonate to an industrial customer, Botz GmbH. The material was produced at Tozero's new demonstration plant in the Gendorf Chemical Park near Munich.

Tozero specialises in recovering lithium carbonate from black mass and has now announced the first delivery of the corresponding recyclate. The delivery to Botz GmbH, a specialist in ceramic colours, shows that Tozero can produce recycled lithium carbonate to the requirements of an industrial customer. The shipment marks the beginning of fulfilling a long-term, binding supply contract with regular batches.

The recyclate is produced in a demonstration plant opened in March at the Gendorf chemical park in Upper Bavaria. The site is located just a few kilometres from the German-Austrian border and is expected to process around 500 tonnes of battery waste per year.

Processing black mass, the chemical mix after batteries are collected and crushed, is currently dominated by China, where more than 85% of global refining capacity is concentrated. The remaining capacity is highly concentrated elsewhere in Asia.

Daniel Schulze Zur Verth, Managing Director of Botz GmbH, states: “Receiving recycled lithium carbonate from tozero marks an important milestone in our collaboration and reflects our shared ambition to build more sustainable, resilient and regionally anchored supply chains. Increasing the use of recycled raw materials will be an important part of reducing reliance on primary resources and lowering the environmental footprint of industrial production.”

Tozero was founded in 2022 and has developed an efficient process to recover high-purity lithium and graphite from used batteries.


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