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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 ...
Groundbreaking innovation with high appeal for numerous potential customers in the core markets of battery electrolyte salts and agrochemicals
30-Sep-2024
FluoRok, an Oxford-based start-up, has raised £7.7m to scale-up, manufacture and commercialise novel fluorochemical reagents and battery electrolyte salts. The oversubscribed round was led by BGF alongside Green Generation Fund and included battery specialist Volta Energy Technologies, current ...
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 ...
22-Apr-2024
Arkema has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake of nearly 78% in Proionic, a leading start-up in the production and development of ionic liquids, which are key components for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries. With this acquisition, Arkema completes its broad range of ...
The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries
26-Feb-2024
Batteries can store up to 80 percent more energy if they use Batene's technology. The start-up, which was founded out of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, replaces the thin contact foils of conventional batteries with fleeces of fine metal wires called BatenefleeceTM. This innovation ...
BTRY raises CHF 900,000 in pre-seed funding for the development of an innovative solid-state battery
22-Jan-2024
Battery start-up BTRY has raised CHF 900,000 in pre-seed financing. The round is led by HTGF with participation from Zürcher Kantonalbank. The spin-off from Empa and ETH Zurich is developing a new type of lithium-ion thin-film solid-state battery that combines significant advantages for various ...
CustomCells calls for a holistic course to be set for the targeted establishment and expansion of the battery value chain
19-Sep-2023
Battery cell technology is playing an increasingly decisive role for Germany as an industrial and business location. The strategic development and expansion of the German and European battery value chain strengthens technological innovation and helps to secure valuable market shares in this ...
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 ...
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 ...
