Sustainable Lithium Ion Battery Raw Materials at LOHUM

Maximizing sustainability of Li-ion batteries via recycled battery-ready raw materials.

Lithium Ion Battery Raw Materials: Our Zero Waste Approach

At LOHUM, we recycle Lithium-ion batteries of all cell chemistries and form factors via our hydrometallurgical NEETM™ technology. We safely recover black mass and process it to extract and isolate high-purity metal sulfates and carbonates ready for use in cathode and precursor production. 

LOHUM creates a circular economy in the Li-ion battery ecosystem by recirculating raw materials back into the supply chain, significantly improving both the environmental benefits and economic sustainability of batteries. NEETM™ enables us to recover 95% of all Li-ion metal salts at 50% lower CO2e than mining.

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Energy Transition Materials Produced at The LOHUM 'RECLAIM' Facility

Cobalt Metal Flakes

Battery Metals & Salt

Lithium Carbonate

Precusor
Materials

NMC Black Mass

Cathode
Active Material

Higher
Value Alloys

LOHUM’s Range Of High-Quality Battery Raw Materials

Raw materials recycled from end-of-life Li-ion batteries, ready for sustainably manufacturing new Li-ion cells.

Cobalt Black Mass

Cobalt
Black Mass

Contains between 17% to 21% Cobalt.

NMC Black Mass

NMC
Black Mass

Contains between 16% to 20% Nickel and 3% to 5% Cobalt.

Lithium Carbonate

Lithium
Carbonate

99.5% purity Li2CO3, impurities limited to 500 PPM.

Cobalt Carbonate Hydrate

Cobalt
Carbonate

99.5% purity CoCO3, impurities limited to 500 PPM

Nickel Carbonate Hydrate

Nickel
Carbonate

99.5% purity NiCO3, impurities limited to 500 PPM

Lithium Carbonate

Lithium
Phosphate

99.5% purity Li3PO4, impurities limited to 500 PPM.

Cobalt Metal Flakes

Cobalt
Metal Flakes

Contains more than 99.5% Cobalt Metal.

Cobalt Sulfate

Cobalt
Sulfate

99.5% purity CoSO4, impurities limited to 500 PPM.

Nickel Sulfate

Nickel
Sulfate

99.5% purity NiSO4, impurities limited to 500 PPM.

Cobalt-Manganese-Nickel Mixed Carbonate

Cobalt-Manganese-Nickel Mixed Carbonate

Co-Mn-Ni Carbonate with impurities limited to 500 PPM. 

Manganese dioxide

Manganese
dioxide

99.5% purity MnO2, impurities limited to 500 PPM.

Our Products

Raw materials recycled from end-of-life Li-ion batteries, ready for sustainably manufacturing new Li-ion cells.

With quality on par with virgin mined metals, batteries made with our range of lithium ion battery raw materials perform equal to batteries with newly mined raw materials in every aspect. 

Once our safe and second-life applications scientific battery reverse logistics deliver the feed-stock to us, our proprietary testing and dismantling technologies separate reusable cells to build 2nd life applications, and cells with no Remaining Useful Life (RUL) enter the recycling process at our ‘Reclaim’ facility. 

What differentiates our Lithium ion battery raw materials:

Raw materials recycled from end-of-life Li-ion batteries, ready for sustainably manufacturing new Li-ion cells.

Zero waste

Zero waste, low CO2e

Nothing that goes through us ever reaches a landfill or incineration. We are also highly energy efficient and in the process of transitioning to renewables to power our facilities. LOHUM’s R&D has managed to not only reach high-yield, but achieve it with 50% of CO2e savings via battery recycling and 90% CO2e savings via battery repurposing per ton.

High yield

Via mechanical, hydro-metallurgical, and electrochemical processes, we recycle all kinds of LIBs, irrespective of their cell chemistry and form. We report full cathode and anode recovery with 95% yield, and significantly lower CapEx & OpEx than our western competitors. Today, LOHUM can recover Cathode Active Materials (CAM), Platinum Metal Group (PMG), Rare Earth Elements (REE) and a wide variety of battery-grade raw materials with maximum purity.

Full chemical separation

Recycling output is in separated metals, oxides, sulfates, and carbonates. We do produce intermediary products, known as Black Mass (BM) and then convert that into final chemical products. LOHUM has evolved different CAM (NMC & LFP) chemistries of LIBs from recycled battery grade materials. Our process for CAM production unlocks maximum specific capacity and cycling performance as a result.

Direct Recycling & LFP

We are the only company currently to set up a direct recycling line for Lithium Ferro-Phosphate, where we recover the LFP molecules. We plan to develop sustainable low-carbon extraction technologies in the areas of Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Neodymium, and other precious rare earth & critical metals

In-house development

Our entire equipment, design, and all process flows have all been developed in-house. We do full lithium ion battery raw materials recovery of sulfates, carbonates & metals directly. LOHUM has also developed a proprietary disassembly methodology and Physico-Chemical analysis techniques for LIBs cells of different form factors - Cylindrical, Pouch, Prismatic. This has enabled all our processes to become agnostic of Lithium ion cell chemistry and form factors.

We have a 20-year timeframe before we run out of natural reserves of lithium ion battery raw materials while incurring significant environmental costs if conventional mining continues at a large scale.

– Rajat Verma, Founder & CEO of LOHUM

What differentiates our Lithium ion battery raw materials:

We receive our feedstock to sustainably produce these minerals from the OEMs, 

producers, and underwriters of various batteries from the consumer electronics segment as well as electric vehicle batteries. 

LOHUM recommends the repurposing or reuse of batteries in second-life applications to our partners, before finally recycling them via our NEETM™ technology, slowing down the demand for hazardous conventional mining as well as reducing our energy dependence on imports via a parallel supply chain and saving millions of tons of CO2e as well as water.

Switching to sustainable raw materials for your Lithium-ion batteries?

LOHUM produces energy transition and lithium ion battery raw materials via battery recycling, repurposing, and battery raw material refining, and is the only integrated battery recycling & reuse company with solutions across the value chain under one roof.

Send us your lithium ion battery raw material requirements via the form and we’ll reach out to you at the earliest.

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Accurate & Future-Proof Lithium Ion Battery Raw Materials Prices

To enable accurate projections for the energy ecosystem, LOHUM has built DETX™, or the ‘Delhi Energy Transition Exchange’™ to provide an unparalleled level of transparency by tracking current and historic prices of critical metals used in Li-ion battery manufacturing, as well as cell prices of various chemistries.

DETX™ enables market benchmarking and comparisons of reuse and recycle prices against those available on other exchanges, empowers stakeholders to navigate the disruptive battery mineral supply and asset trading landscape with confidence and clarity.

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Extended Producer Responsibility

"Did you know that traditional mining processes can result in significant material loss? Approximately 10-15% of lithium ion battery raw materials are wasted during extraction and refining, and by the time they enter a battery, close to 40% has already been lost due to impurities and inefficiencies, that's not sustainable!

In contrast, recycling batteries via NEETM™ minimizes this loss to just 5%, facilitating a significant reduction in our need to dig up the Earth.”

– Gazanfar Safvi, Head – Recycling & Chemicals, LOHUM

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Lohum Cleantech Private Limited, Plot No. D-7 & 8, Site 5th, Kasna Industrial Area, Greater Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh – 201308

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