Dr. Gideon Schwich, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Cylib | Slush 2025
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Cylib claims a water-based hydrometallurgical process that recovers >90% of battery materials including lithium carbonate, nickel and cobalt, proven first in lab then at a demo plant and now scaled to a full industrial facility in Dormagen, Germany. The company builds Europe’s largest LFP and NMC recycling plant, hires ~120 staff, processes end-of-life EV and consumer batteries for OEMs, and supplies recycled raw material back into local battery supply chains.
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