Conventional recycling depends on multi-stage separations, roasting, and crystallization. Each step adds cost, energy use, and waste, creating flowsheets that don’t scale. As EV and storage demand accelerates, recycling cannot supply critical materials at the volume, cost, or footprint the transition requires.
SPARC™ replaces complex, step-heavy flowsheets with a single streamlined process that makes both NMC and LFP recycling economically viable. The platform recovers lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite at battery-grade purity while cutting energy use and waste.
SPARC™ eliminates the need for metal separation and crystallization in NMC recycling. By replacing multiple complex steps with a streamlined process, we reduce energy use by ~65% and cut sodium-sulfate formation roughly in half, while consistently achieving battery-grade purity for lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
LFP’s low-value materials have made recycling uneconomical, despite its growing use. SPARC™ changes that with an impurity-tolerant design that preserves downstream performance and enables efficient lithium recovery from low-value streams, producing battery-grade lithium salts at materially lower cost and opening the door to circular LFP at scale. For the first time, LFP recycling can scale profitably, supporting the rapid adoption of EVs and stationary storage.
SPARC™ integrates proprietary selective leaching and impurity-rejection/polishing to deliver high yields and high purity without roasting, solvent extraction, or multiple crystallization steps. The flowsheet is chemistry-agnostic and engineered for industrial deployment, leveraging decades of lab-to-plant scale-up experience.
Compact plants, faster deployment, smaller footprints. Unlike processes that stop at intermediates, SPARC™ produces high-purity pCAM and lithium hydroxide that feed directly into cathode and battery manufacturing—closing the loop for both NMC and LFP.