RecycLiCo Battery Materials Inc. announced a significant milestone in its mission to revolutionize the lithium-ion battery recycling industry. The Company's recycled-upcycled precursor cathode active material (Precursor) has been successfully used by a Korean cathode manufacturer to create battery cells that demonstrate the same level of performance as commercial precursor material. Battery cell performance was validated using industry-standard metrics and benchmarked against multiple other recycled precursor and commercial precursor products.

The Korean cathode manufacturer reported that the battery cell using RecycLiCo's recycled-upcycled NMC811 (nickel manganese cobalt oxide) precursor outperformed other recycled cathode precursor materials and performed at the level of commercial NMC811 precursor material. RecycLiCo's commercial battery-quality precursor was produced directly from battery production scrap and black mass samples using the Company's novel closed-loop RecycLiCo process.