The Platform
Refining, rebuilt from first principles
Refining, rebuilt from first principles
Refining, rebuilt from first principles
Recycling batteries should be profitable
The metals inside are valuable.
Yet the industry burns most of that value getting them out. The classical route works but drags a century of cost with it; the newer alternatives look elegant on paper and collapse on unit economics.
The result is a market forced to choose between expensive-but-real and green-but-unbuildable.
Refinyx exists because that choice is false.
The metals inside are valuable.
Yet the industry burns most of that value getting them out. The classical route works but drags a century of cost with it; the newer alternatives look elegant on paper and collapse on unit economics.
The result is a market forced to choose between expensive-but-real and green-but-unbuildable.
Refinyx exists because that choice is false.
CLASSICAL ROUTE — SOLVENT EXTRACTION
Black mass
Leach
Purify
Solvent extraction
REMOVED
Crystallize
Battery grade
REFINYX ROUTE
Black mass
Leach
Purify
Crystallize
Battery grade
LESS PLANT, LESS CAPITAL
LESS PLANT, LESS CAPITAL
The chemistry
The chemistry
Refinyx technologies concede nothing. Every advantage of the classical route — battery-grade output, full separation of nickel, cobalt, and manganese, feedstock flexibility — is preserved. Every penalty of it — the solvent inventories, the footprint, the capital, the waste — is gone. This is not a simplification that trades quality for cost. It is a deeper solution to the chemistry itself: impurity removal that handles every impurity family, operation at concentrations the classical route cannot touch, and recoveries above 97% — directly to battery grade.
Refinyx technologies concede nothing. Every advantage of the classical route is preserved; every penalty — solvent inventories, footprint, capital, waste — is gone. This is not a simplification that trades quality for cost; it is a deeper solution to the chemistry itself, recovering above 97% directly to battery grade.
Refinyx technologies concede nothing. Every advantage of the classical route — battery-grade output, full separation of nickel, cobalt, and manganese, feedstock flexibility — is preserved. Every penalty of it — the solvent inventories, the footprint, the capital, the waste — is gone. This is not a simplification that trades quality for cost. It is a deeper solution to the chemistry itself: impurity removal that handles every impurity family, operation at concentrations the classical route cannot touch, and recoveries above 97% — directly to battery grade.
>97%
metal recovery
99.9%
product purity
30–40%
lower energy than conventional hydromet routes
The build
The build
This team designed, built, and operated the first industrial-scale NMC recycling plant in Europe, and that experience is engineered into everything we deploy. The plant itself is part of the invention: how it's designed, procured, and ramped decides its economics as much as the flowsheet inside it.
This team designed, built, and operated the first industrial-scale NMC recycling plant in Europe, and that experience is engineered into everything we deploy. The plant itself is part of the invention: how it's designed, procured, and ramped decides its economics as much as the flowsheet inside it.
This is not a concept. It is an operating record
This is not a concept. It is an operating record
The first industrial-scale NMC recycling plant in Europe, built and operated by this team.
135 patents · three technology generations · a PhD-led scientific bench.
Battery-grade output quality at industrial scale verified by third party pCAM producer
Loophouse: 1,200 m² pilot plant and laboratory in Västerås, Sweden · grams to 50 kg/h continuous.
The first industrial-scale NMC recycling plant in Europe, built and operated by this team.
135 patents · three technology generations · a PhD-led scientific bench.
Battery-grade output quality at industrial scale verified by third party pCAM producer
Loophouse: 1,200 m² pilot plant and laboratory in Västerås, Sweden · grams to 50 kg/h continuous.
Environmental performance by design
We did not add an environmental layer to our process. We designed a process that doesn't need one. When the chemistry itself eliminates organic solvent inventories, recovers the graphite instead of burning it, and closes the water loop, the environmental case stops being a claim and becomes a property.
We did not add an environmental layer to our process. We designed a process that doesn't need one. When the chemistry itself eliminates organic solvent inventories, recovers the graphite instead of burning it, and closes the water loop, the environmental case stops being a claim and becomes a property.