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The Mecaware start-up, incubated by PULSALYS and headed by Arnaud Villers d'Arbouet, recycles end-of-life technological products, particularly batteries, to recover strategic metals and rare earths in an environmentally-friendly way.

This green process, the only one of its kind in the world, is based on CO2 capture and responds to two environmental issues: the reduction of CO2 and the recycling of strategic materials that are inaccessible but essential to the new technology industry

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Mecaware to industrialize battery recycling with CO2 20/12/2023

  • Mecaware has raised €40 million in venture capital funds, mainly from French banks.
  • The start-up aims to industrialize its lithium battery recycling process.
  • Their first pilot is due to start in 2025, at Verkor's R&D laboratory, to produce 50 tonnes of metal per year.
  • By 2026, a plant 160 times larger than the laboratory is planned, capable of recycling enough metals to power 50,000 electric cars.

Mecaware: 40 million to industrialize its CO2 battery recycling technology 11/10/2023

  • The Mecaware start-up was founded at the end of 2020. Mecaware raised €40 million in a financing round led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation, with the participation of Bpifrance and several bank investors.
  • The company plans to increase the size of its teams to 80 people by 2024.
  • The industrialization of two technology pilots is planned, the first to be installed on Verkor's R&D site in 2025.
  • Mecaware does not deal with the complete recycling of batteries.
  • Its process takes place after the dismantling and shredding of batteries and "black mass" production waste.
  • Mecaware's first pilot plant, scheduled for installation in Verkor's Grenoble laboratory in 2025, will be capable of producing 50 tonnes of metals a year.
  • The company's aim is to keep metals and their value in France, with a view to sovereignty.

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The battery market - France

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  • Theion
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  • Viridian Lithium
  • Green Corp Konnection GCK
  • Vulcan Energy
  • Blue Solutions (Bolloré Groupe)
  • Alteo
  • Iten
  • Panasonic
  • Tiamat Energy
  • Eramet
  • Tyva Energie
  • Li-Cycle
  • Limatech
  • Inocel
  • Glencore
  • Neogy (Startec Energy Groupe)
  • GS Yuasa
  • BYD
  • Foresee Power
  • Batteries Prod
  • Vélo Batterie- Batteries Prod
  • Toyota
  • Stellantis (Groupe PSA et Fiat)
  • Volkswagen Group
  • Audi (Volkswagen Group)
  • Tata Group
  • Bolloré
  • Mecaware
  • Nawa Technologies
  • BMW
  • Samsung Group
  • SK Group Korea
  • Nissan
  • Arkema groupe
  • Mob-Energy
  • Batconnect
  • Hydrovolt
  • Wattalps
  • Vlad