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GET Fund and Schaeffler AG invest in young Mainz-based company
16-Jan-2025
The German start-upCircunomics GmbH (based in Mainz) successfully closed its Series A financing round in December 2024, raising over eight million euros from significant investors. Founded in 2019, the company promotes the circular economy for lithium-ion batteries by advancing ...
Battery recycling is critical to Europe’s supply of strategic critical raw materials for resilient battery infrastructure
11-Sep-2024
Sustainable end-to-end battery recycling firmcylib today breaks ground on its first European industrial plant located at Currenta’s Chempark Dormagen in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. One year after the commissioning of its pilot line in Aachen, cylib is marking the start ...
The investment round is the largest ever raised by a European battery recycling company
16-May-2024
cylib announced the completion of its €55 million Series A funding round in equity financing. The round, which is the largest round ever raised by a European battery recycling company, was completed less than 24 months after the company started operations. cylib will use the funds to power the ...
Green Alley Award Finalists
03-Apr-2024
The Green Alley Award, Europe’s first and longest-running award for startups and entrepreneurs pioneering the circular economy, has announced its finalists for 2024. Six startups have been selected from a total of over 300 applications and will pitch at the Green Alley Award finals on April 25, ...
Its technology is based on ground-breaking innovation in dynamic combinatorial chemistry
10-Oct-2023
In order to speed up its industrial and commercial development, MECAWARE has secured €40 million from a pool of investors, the French government, under the auspices of the France 2030 plan, and its banking partners. This funding will enable the industrialisation of the pilot scheme for the ...
Germany Spoke is the largest in Li-Cycle’s portfolio and expected to sustainably process up to 30,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery material per year
07-Aug-2023
Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. announced the start of commercial operations at its first Spoke recycling facility in Europe, located in Magdeburg, Germany. The Germany Spoke’s first main processing line has now commenced operations, with the second main line expected to start later in 2023. Each main ...
Founder interview: Cylib
21-Jun-2023
Who is Cylib and what does Cylib do - in an interview, Gideon Schwich, Co-founder | COO, answers all questions of the chemie.de editorial team. Many thanks for this. On the one hand, we are the three founders: Lilian, Paul and Gideon. But above all, we now have a very strong team from a wide ...
Would be the largest source of recycled battery-grade lithium as well as recycled nickel and cobalt in Europe
24-May-2023
Li-Cycle Holdings Corp., an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, and Glencore International AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glencore plc, a leading producer, recycler, and marketer of nickel and cobalt for the ...
Recovery of non-metallic components for the first time?
12-Apr-2023
Chemist Prof. Jan J. Weigand and his team at TU Dresden are partnering in a joint project aimed at improving the ecological footprint of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The project led by the start-up company Elyte Innovations GmbH is named "SWELL – Recovery of Electrolyte Salts and Solvents", and ...
Cashflow-positive after just one year
17-Nov-2022
What began as an idea about a transport container for old batteries has in the meantime grown into a complete recycling service for used batteries. The start-up LiBCycle, founded at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is committed to Circular Economy and is thus contributing to sustainable ...
