Livista Energy Wants to Keep Expanding the Amount of Lithium Processed in Europe

Europe: The front-end engineering and design (FEED) and DFS for the plant will be provided by Technip Energies. Livista disclosed that it will collaborate with Technip Energies to build its 40,000 tpa facility, which will produce 10,000 tpa of Lithium-Carbonate (LCE) and 30,000 tpa of Lithium-Hydroxide. The factory, which is the first of its sort in Europe, can accept any types of raw Lithium materials as feedstock, including recycled Lithium compounds.

Technip Energies will carry out the engineering, early procurement activities, cost projections, and all permitting tasks necessary to construct the first refinery, as well as preliminary tasks for the project to expand the plant on the same site, as part of the FEED. Additionally, depending on the design of the first plant, the pre-FEED for the second plant will be carried out concurrently, improving efficiencies and reducing overall costs.

Large amounts of battery grade or refined chemicals are needed to keep up with the expanding EV market. We chose Germany as our initial construction site for a variety of reasons, including its deep sea port, availability of renewable energy, government backing, and proximity to our downstream. Also think that operating in Germany is a special challenge because only the finest are accepted there. If successful here, will be able to duplicate best in class both domestically and worldwide.

The business will use a diversified supply approach that incorporates recycling for both the sourcing of raw materials and Lithium intermediaries. This covers verbal agreements as well as negotiations about joint ventures with current or upcoming upstream producers.

It's interesting that many OEMs are also coming to us with ore that must be improved that they have sourced. This is the result of a rigorous dd process using Livista's technology and flow sheet.

Some of the names are what you might have expected, while others are completely out of left field but have excellent technical understanding and black mass separation implementation. Typically, they concentrate on extracting Nickel, Cobalt, Manganese, and Graphite, leaving behind a Lithium product that needs additional refinement to be useful in batteries once again. Collaborating with several parties to raise the calibre of these items so that may include them right in our flow diagram.

The conversion to Hydroxide into our supply with volumes anticipated to exceed 12,000 tpa of LCE starting in 2028. We have previously demonstrated the conversion to Hydroxide at bench scale. The company struck a collaboration with CAA Mining in February and later invested in that company's upstream asset in Ghana.

According to the deal, the UK-based CAA will conduct Lithium exploration at several properties in Ghana, including one next to the Ewoyaa site of Atlantic Lithium.

If successful, the sites' Lithium extraction would supply a Livista conversion factory in Takoradi, in the south of the country, which would convert the spodumene into a middle-stage Lithium chemical. The corporation would then ship the intermediate material to one of its facilities in Europe for additional refinement.