Rock Tech finishes study for its Guben converter project
by CM Staff
Rock Tech has chosen Guben, Brandenburg for the location of its new plant.
Rock Tech Lithium Inc. has published its Bankable Project Study on the merchant lithium converter plant in Guben, Germany. (CNW Group/Rock Tech Lithium Inc.)
VANCOUVER — Rock Tech Lithium has completed a bankable project study for the construction and operation of the company’s proposed battery grade merchant lithium hydroxide monohydrate converter and refinery facility in Guben, Germany.
Rock Tech says the results of this BPS study demonstrated an improvement in the converter’s economics compared to the previous engineering study from 2021.
The company plans to use these results as the basis for project financing discussions with potential leaders.
According to the lithium development company, the merchant LHM converter in Guben, Germany will become Europe’s first lithium converter, operating on a capacity to produce 24,000 tonnes of battery grade lithium per year.
The company also says that the European Union’s announcement to effectively ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035 has boosted the significance of lithium hydroxide.
Rock Tech has chosen Guben, Brandenburg for the location of its new plant. As per the company’s announcement in 2021, it purchased a 12-hectare site within the existing Guben South industrial park.
Key suppliers and customers reside in the region which the company expects will become one of many battery and EV clusters in Europe.
The converter is designed to process spodumene concentrates into battery grade LHM via the sulphation-causticisation (S-C) route. Rock Tech selected the basic process flowsheet in the previous phase of the project and subsequently optimized it using data supplied by equipment vendors and metallurgical test work completed during the study.
