Sarah Fleischer and Ksenija Milicevic Neumann. Image: Tozero
Tozero’s plant outside Munich was set up in six months and is capable of producing 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate from old batteries each year.
German battery and raw materials recycling start-up Tozero has opened a new industrial plant for the production of domestic lithium and graphite, which it claims as a European first.
The new facility in Munich is capable of processing 1,500 tonnes of waste per year by turning end-of-life lithium ion batteries into domestic supplies of lithium, graphite and nickel-cobalt blends at an industrial scale.
Such materials are considered critical for use in electric vehicle, grid-scale storage and industrial electrification, but Tozero said that Europe and the US are currently massively reliant on materials imported from China.
