Refining critical battery materials — locally, from waste.

As the world electrifies, battery waste is growing fast — gigafactories scaling at record pace generate millions of tonnes of manufacturing scrap, while EVs are reaching end-of-life after a decade of deployment and consumer electronics batteries turn over even faster. This waste is rich in lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese — the same critical battery materials the world is struggling to mine and refine fast enough. Yet today, most of it is crushed into black mass and shipped to a handful of geographically concentrated refineries — creating strategic dependency and sending critical materials in the wrong direction.

Lincore reverses that flow. Our electro-metallurgical refining transforms black mass into battery-grade materials locally — with zero direct carbon emissions, zero sodium sulphate waste, and modular capacity that sits where the waste is produced. No decade-long mine permits. No dependency on concentrated refining regions. Critical materials stay within the economies that generated them.