Our vocation

One ambition: to create a cleaner battery industry that meets the environmental challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Crucial strategic metals supply issues for Europe

The metals needed to manufacture batteries come mainly from Asia, Africa and Australia. Their extraction not only poses environmental and societal challenges, but also leads to resource scarcity, putting increasing pressure on the market. To ensure a sustainable energy transition, it is essential that Europe can secure supplies of these strategic metals. Fortunately, these metals, although scarce in our territories, are recyclable.

It is therefore essential to recover them:

battery waste is our new mine to exploit!

Our answer

Our economically and environmentally efficient technology is deployed in a compact industrial unit that can be located as close to the waste source as possible, or even on site for battery production scrap.

A high-performance, sustainable
chemistry

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Co-founder Dan finishes the economics degree he promised his mum he'd complete, only to never use it and start his own clothing business (love you mum).

Our innovative chemistry is distinguished by its respect for the environment. Unlike traditional processes, we operate in a basic environment, without the use of acids, and use an ammonia route with few inputs. The selective extraction of metals is based on the properties ofCO2, which enables us to produce carbonates rather than sulfates. In this way, we generate little effluent and avoid reprocessing, contributing to a cleaner, more efficient recycling process.

No acids

CO²
chemistry

Carbonates

No effluent
(to be reprocessed on site)

Compact units

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Thanks to our innovative, zero-effluent process, our units are both compact and agile. This allows us to be located as close as possible to waste deposits, or even directly on site to recycle  the battery production waste from the gigafactory.

This agility allows us to adapt to different waste volumes, and integrate into any ecosystem in a logic of resource circularity.

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By federating a
global ecosystem

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We are structuring an ecosystem based on the circular economy and rooted in the regions. By bringing together key expertise across the entire value chain, we are building a sustainable, competitive industry to support decarbonization.

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The different players in the value chain

The technological building blocks we develop with our partners

The second
life of batteries

Waste handled
and treated

By 2029, our Béthune site will be :

25 000

metric tonnes

of end-of-life batteries
processed per year

8 000

metric tonnes

of metals produced
per year

100

jobs created

Our concept:
eco²efficiency

We offer industrial solutions that combine economic and ecological performance to meet the challenge of the circular economy.

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Any innovation, no matter how promising, is only valuable if it is adapted to industrial and regional realities. We develop high-performance solutions, optimised for large-scale use and adapted to market requirements.

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Sustainability is essential to our developments. Our technologies must minimise their environmental impact in order to be part of a more responsible industry that serves present and future generations.

Our eco²efficiency approach balances these two requirements to accelerate the transition to competitive and sustainable recycling of strategic metals.

Our vision

Build a circular and virtuous industryfor the production of strategic metals to meet the
technological needs of future generations.

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