We achieve a new level of efficiency and effectiveness in recycling electrolytes by permanently and innovatively reviewing drying progress (adaptive drying). As a result, we are also able to extract the absolute maximum out of all downstream fractionation and recycling processes, and fully close the loop for all battery materials – with zero loss or contamination.

With our pioneering technology designed to remove valuable active materials (cobalt, nickel, lithium, manganese, graphite, etc.), we achieve unprecedented selectivity and sparkling clean separated materials.

The conducting salt responsible for transporting ions in the battery, usually LiPF6, is complex to produce and is very expensive.

Modern drive-battery systems are also 10 to 20% graphite. Graphite is a naturally occurring carbon compound sourced by mining. Producing it synthetically is very energy-intensive.

Neither substance is recovered through conventional recycling processes. Librec has developed ways to recover these recyclables, and will be demonstrating these on an industrial scale in Switzerland for the first time.

With full, smart discharge, we recover all energy from the batteries and are able to use it to cover as much as a third of our process energy. Together with our own solar power, we ultimately meet more than half of our energy needs this way.

Our state-of-the-art process technology does not require any chemicals whatsoever, keeps resources in the loop and does not produce any emissions (zero emissions).

With our decentralised network for collection and recycling, which is currently being set up throughout Europe, we are able to greatly reduce the generally necessary transportation routes and risks compared to primary mining or the central collection-and-return approach.