Seg\u00fan Tozero, que se fund\u00f3 a mediados de 2022, la planta piloto cuenta con un equipamiento t\u00e9cnico a gran escala y respalda la tecnolog\u00eda de reciclaje hidrometal\u00fargico patentada por la startup.<\/p>\n
Acerca de hace un a\u00f1o, Tozero recaud\u00f3 3,5 millones de euros<\/a> en su ronda de pre-semilla, que dijo que estaba destinada principalmente a financiar la planta cerca de M\u00fanich. Entre los patrocinadores de la startup se encuentra el antiguo ejecutivo de VW Jochem Heizmann. En los v\u00eddeos promocionales de Tozero, un representante de MAN Truck and Bus habla muy bien de la startup.<\/p>\n A finales de julio de este a\u00f1o, el Banco Bethmann, con sede en Alemania, afirm\u00f3 en su publicaci\u00f3n en l\u00ednea Tenor (en alem\u00e1n)<\/a>\"Aunque la start-up s\u00f3lo tiene un a\u00f1o de vida, hace unas semanas alcanz\u00f3 un hito: seg\u00fan la empresa, el proceso no s\u00f3lo funciona en el laboratorio, sino que los fundadores ya han puesto en pr\u00e1ctica su idea a mayor escala\".<\/p>\n Tozero sigue sin revelar detalles sobre su tecnolog\u00eda. En una declaraci\u00f3n enviada por correo electr\u00f3nico que recibimos, se limita a decir que el enfoque \"permite la recuperaci\u00f3n sostenible de todos los materiales cr\u00edticos de las bater\u00edas, como el litio, el grafito, el n\u00edquel, el cobalto y el manganeso.\"<\/p>\n Tozero har\u00e1 lo que hacen otras empresas de reciclaje de bater\u00edas: trabajar con empresas que descargan las bater\u00edas y desmontan la carcasa, triturando el contenido para formar un polvo negro. \u00c9ste puede separarse en los materiales cr\u00edticos recuperables antes mencionados con la ayuda de tamices, imanes y procesos qu\u00edmicos. Aunque el proceso de producci\u00f3n de masa negra no es nuevo, Tozero ha desarrollado un novedoso proceso qu\u00edmico de separaci\u00f3n de componentes que est\u00e1 atrayendo la atenci\u00f3n de las incipientes industrias de bater\u00edas alemana y europea.<\/p>\n Ahora, con la nueva planta piloto, Tozero afirma que ya puede cumplir los requisitos m\u00ednimos de la UE sobre la tasa de recuperaci\u00f3n del litio, que es del 80% a partir de 2031. El tipo de inter\u00e9s que est\u00e1 adquiriendo la startup y al que aspiran otros recicladores sugiere que su proceso qu\u00edmico secreto puede hacer mucho m\u00e1s.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seg\u00fan Tozero, que se fund\u00f3 a mediados de 2022, la planta piloto cuenta con un equipamiento t\u00e9cnico a gran escala y respalda la tecnolog\u00eda de reciclaje hidrometal\u00fargico patentada por la startup. Hace aproximadamente un a\u00f1o,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":208502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,10161,13168,9961,23257,28925,4391,17009,9057,13169,2968,7405,28926],"class_list":["post-208526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-bavaria","tag-cobalt","tag-germany","tag-graphite","tag-karlsfeld","tag-lithium","tag-manganese","tag-nickel","tag-raw-materials","tag-recycling","tag-startup","tag-tozero"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" While the processing capacity of the new plant goes unmentioned, the amount of batteries able to be recycled in Europe will depend on legislation, numbers of available electric vehicle and stationary storage batteries, and the second-life businesses and applications in what China calls the “cadence” battery uses<\/a> before recycling. China is further along<\/a> in this process, now legislating for “cadence” battery use with many business models and processes involved. Tozero founders highlight their goal to ensure “the endless life” of batteries.<\/p>\n In June this year, the EU Parliament adopted new rules<\/a> for the design, manufacture and recycling of all types of batteries sold in the EU. Battery manufacturers will thus be subject to stricter environmental and due diligence requirements if they want to sell on the European market.<\/p>\n The interest in collaborations with battery recyclers in Europe, such as Tozero, includes battery makers, electric vehicle manufacturers \u2013 which in Germany, now includes some of the worlds largest automotive players, electronic waste recyclers, and second-life battery firms, such as their fellow German battery circularity firms, Voltfang (second-life batteries for stationary storage), or Volytica Diagnostics<\/a> (technology to assess the life-cycle phase of a battery to determine the optimum time to move the materials onto the next phase of second or third-life applications and recycling).<\/p>\n On LinkedIn just a week ago, the Tozero founders said that in 5 years, they want to be one of the leading battery recyclers worldwide.<\/p>\n Before founding Tozero, Dr. Ksenija Milicevic Neumann worked as a Senior Researcher at IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling Institute on Battery Recycling, Space Resources and Zero-emission Metallurgy. Tozero is technically advised by Bernd Friedrich, head of the Institute for Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling (IME) at RWTH Aachen University. <\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Neumann’s Co-founder is Sarah Fleischer, a graduate of Havard Business School and Columbia Business School in the US, her previous experience includes being a visiting fellow for innovation in science at Harvard, and an economic advisor to the Luxembourg Space Agency. <\/span><\/p>\n Now, opening the pilot plant, shrouded in relative secrecy, Fleischer says: \u201cTogether with our customers, suppliers and investors, Tozero is at the forefront of the electrification revolution in Europe. The newly opened pilot plant is an important milestone in our mission to truly bring lithium-ion battery waste to zero\u201d.<\/p>\n Source: email info<\/em><\/p>\n","post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_thumbnail":208502,"post_thumbnail-caption":"","post_teaser-text":"In Germany, the Munich-based startup Tozero, which specializes in recycling lithium-ion batteries, has put its first hydrometallurgical pilot plant into operation in Karlsfeld near Munich. Its construction was financed in part by a pre-seed round from last year.","post_advert":false,"post_tags":[28926,10230,9961,10161,13168,23257,28925,4391,17009,9057,13169,2968,7405]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Procesos secretos de recuperaci\u00f3n<\/h3>\n
Available battery recycling material in Europe<\/h3>\n
Big ambitions, great start<\/h3>\n