Rock Tech Lithium

Second day of the German-Canadian delegation meeting in Berlin As part of the Canadian Critical Minerals Delegation in Berlin Mirco Wojnarowicz, our CEO, met with Timothy Hodgson, Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Our NRCan | Notre RNCan, to discuss energy and supply security. They both concluded that deeper cooperation between Germany and Canada is the right path, especially regarding critical minerals, processing capacity, and recycling. 🤝🔋 Earlier, in his keynote, Hodgson emphasized the importance of robust value chains and sent a clear signal for closer cooperation between Canada and Germany. 📈🌍 This agenda aligns with our strategy of operating in both markets: Red Rock in Ontario builds on the Guben blueprint. The planned converter in Red Rock is linked to our resource base at the Georgia Lake project via existing infrastructure. We are committed to a partnership-based dialogue with the Indigenous Communities and plan to integrate a recycling feedstock. This step-by-step process creates a resilient, transatlantic supply chain that ensures security and decarbonization. 🌐♻️ #RockTechLithium #CriticalRawMaterials #SupplyChain #BatteryMaterials #EMobility #Ontario #RedRock #FirstNations

German Canadian Critical Minerals Round Table A strong signal for German-Canadian cooperation: At today’s German-Canadian Summit, Rock Tech Lithium was highlighted by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during a joint press conference with Chancellor Friedrich Merz as an exemplary German-Canadian company accelerating decarbonization through its lithium project. In this context and as a next step in the commitment to sustainable industrial processes, Rock Tech Lithium and ENERTRAG signed a strategic cooperation during the summit, attended by Canadian Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Timothy Hodgson and Katherina Reiche, Minister at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy). The partnership aims to ensure that the lithium hydroxide converter in Guben is supplied with renewable energy in future. Key facts: 💡 From 2030, at least 50% of the electricity demand will be covered directly from new wind and solar plants operated by ENERTRAG. 🌍 By using renewable energy, we will reduce the converter’s indirect CO₂ emissions (Scope 2) by approximately 50%. 🔗 This partnership is a model for the decarbonization of cross-border value chains and one important step towards competitiveness. Our converter in Guben, recognized as a strategic project under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, will make a significant contribution to European raw material sovereignty and climate neutrality. The energy and sustainability concept will also serve as a blueprint for our planned converter in Red Rock, Ontario. With this partnership, we are setting a key milestone for sustainable and competitive lithium hydroxide production in Europe, demonstrating how industry and energy providers can jointly take concrete steps to decarbonize the value chain.   #RockTechLithium #ENERTRAG #Sustainability #Lithium #EMobility #EnergyTransition #CircularEconomy #CriticalRawMaterials #Guben #Brandenburg #NRCan

💡 Did You Know? Georgia Lake’s Existing Infrastructure and Prime Location Position Us to Build Faster! While many early-stage mining projects face the challenge – and cost – of building infrastructure from scratch in remote locations, our Georgia Lake Project starts from a very different position. We’re well-connected, and that’s our advantage. ✅ Georgia Lake is located just 7 km from the TransCanada Highway 📍 ✅ Active power line running through the eastern property boundary ⚡ ✅ Existing corridor to connect the power line to the mine site 🔌 ✅ All-season road access right to the mine site 🛣️ ✅ Close proximity to rail infrastructure connecting the project across the country 🚂 ✅ Less than 60 km along the TransCanada Highway from our planned Red Rock Converter site. 🏭 ✅ Mining leases secured in 2023, providing the tenure needed to move forward with development 📜 💡 With infrastructure already in place and mining leases secured, we can move faster, lower costs, and minimize our environmental footprint - all while building a secure, local lithium supply chain for Ontario and Canada. #CriticalMinerals #Lithium #EVs #Mining #Infrastructure #OntarioMade #EnergyTransition #GeorgiaLake #RockTechLithium

🔬 Rock Tech Lithium receives funding for innovative lithium recovery   We are pleased to announce that Rock Tech Lithium has been awarded funding from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) for the project “ELiSePro – Efficient Lithium Recovery Using Selective Processes”. The aim of this initiative is to further increase lithium yield in our converter process at the Guben site, making a significant contribution to Germany’s raw material independence. The project will be implemented in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University, highlighting the strong partnership between industry and leading academic research in Germany. As part of the project, various state-of-the-art ion separation methods (including nanofiltration, capacitive deionization, and lithium-ion sieves) will be systematically compared to minimize lithium losses in the process. The results will be evaluated based on economic and technological criteria and are intended for direct industrial application. Innovative findings will also be published in scientific journals and patented. This funding supports the advancement of the German and European battery industry – an important step towards strengthening security of supply for critical raw materials and building sustainable value chains in Europe. 🔋🌍🔗  #Innovation #RawMaterialSecurity #Lithium #Funding #Guben #BatteryIndustry #CircularEconomy 

🔋 New Perspective for a Key Battery Project The planned investment of a leading US company in Northvolt is an important signal for one of Europe’s most significant battery projects. It also demonstrates that Germany remains an attractive and reliable location for future technologies and large-scale industrial investments.  This international commitment highlights the strategic importance of a resilient battery value chain in Europe. It shows that, with the right framework conditions and targeted support, Germany can compete globally for key technologies. To maintain and further strengthen this momentum, it is essential to continue driving forward projects like this one with focused support from the German government. Only through close cooperation between industry and policymakers can Europe’s technological sovereignty be secured and sustainable jobs created. 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇪 #BatteryIndustry #Innovation #Germany #EnergyTransition #Investment #FutureTechnologies #IndustrialPolicy 

The Mobility Transition is Now! ⚡🚗   Norway demonstrates what a determined transformation of mobility looks like: In July 2025, electric vehicles accounted for an impressive 97.2% of all new passenger car registrations. This marks an increase of 48% compared to July 2024. Remarkably, every vehicle in the Top20-list of new registrations is a fully electric car. These figures show: The mobility transition is already a reality! 🌍 For Germany and Europe, the message is: Anyone who wants to secure the future of our key industries must act now! A clear political commitment to electromobility and the transformation of value chains is essential, if we want to maintain our most important industrial sector and its jobs. Link to the article in the comments below.    #MobilityTransition #Electromobility #IndustrialPolicy #Transformation 

🔋 Important milestone announced for the future of energy supply! The planned battery storage project by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG in Philippsburg demonstrates how we can effectively balance the natural fluctuations of solar and wind energy. Battery storage is the key to making renewable energy reliable and efficient. ⚡️🌞🌬️ What makes this project particularly remarkable is its location: on the site of a former nuclear power plant – a strong symbol for the transformation of our energy system. 🏭➡️🔋 To make such projects a reality, we must address the issue of raw material supply seriously. Without lithium and sufficient processing and refining capacities, battery storage and e-mobility will remain a vision. Now is the time for determined investment along the entire value chain – from sustainable raw material extraction to local processing with short supply routes. 🪫🔗🌍 This is the only way to ensure security of supply, competitiveness, and a sustainable transformation of our industry. Link to the article in the comments below.   #EnergyTransition #BatteryStorage #Lithium #RawMaterials #Transformation

Brandenburg on the Rise – and Rock Tech Lithium Right at the Heart of It The new Prognos AG Zukunftsatlas 2025 is out – and it sends a strong message: Brandenburg is among Germany’s top-performing regions when it comes to future readiness. Eastern Brandenburg, the location of our lithium converter in Germany, has made particularly impressive progress. 🏗️ Major investments and targeted structural support have propelled the region forward. Districts like Oder-Spree climbed more than 130 ranks. A strong signal, as Wirtschaftsministerium Brandenburg’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Daniel Keller, affirms: “Brandenburg is the economic driving force in Eastern Germany.” Why is Brandenburg growing like that? - A clear focus on future mobility - Leadership in energy transition and green industry - Strong innovation potential, driven by SMEs, global players, and a skilled workforce - Commitment to digital transformation It is precisely this dynamic environment that makes Brandenburg the ideal location for our lithium converter in Guben – one of Europe’s first facilities to refine battery-grade lithium hydroxide. For us, Brandenburg is more than a production site: it’s a future-focused region with outstanding conditions for sustainable and resilient raw material supply Made in Europe. 💬 Dr. Steffen Kammradt, CEO of Economic Development Agency Brandenburg (WFBB), puts it clearly: “Brandenburg is a quality location. The strong ranking in the Prognos Future Atlas helps us positioning ourselves in international competition.” For companies like Rock Tech Lithium, this development is a clear validation of our site selection – and an invitation to actively shape the future in close partnership with industry, policymakers and the public. #LithiumConverter #Brandenburg #FutureAtlas2025 #EnergyTransition #FutureMobility #RockTechLithium #RawMaterialsForEurope

💡 Did You Know? A 1950s Discovery is Now Driving Lithium Investment in Northern Ontario? In 1955, geologists uncovered the region’s first lithium-bearing pegmatites on a small island in Georgia Lake, about 140 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. 🏔️🔍 Later that same year, Rock Tech’s Nama Creek lithium deposit was staked — just 16 km from that original discovery. 📍⚒️  By 1957, Nama Creek Mines Ltd had already sunk a 153-metre vertical shaft (deeper than 1.5 soccer fields stacked end to end!). ⚽⛏️ Back then, lithium was used mainly in greases and ceramics, and global demand was limited. While Nama Creek wasn’t developed further at the time, exploration in the region never stopped. 🔬🌍 Fast forward nearly 70 years, and the world has changed. With global lithium demand expected to triple by 2030, that early discovery at Georgia Lake is no longer just a historic footnote — it’s now at the center of efforts to build a secure, local lithium supply chain for the clean energy transition. 🔋 #GeorgiaLake #ThunderBay #RockTech #Lithium #EnergyTransition Photo courtesy of The Daily Times Journal, July 16, 1955 accessed through the Thunder Bay Public Library.

Independence Requires Determination 🔗  “We simply cannot afford to stand still. If we don’t build the value chain in Europe, others will,” says our CEO Mirco Wojnarowicz in the latest issue of FOCUS. Germany and Europe have the opportunity to strengthen raw material security and increase industrial resilience through targeted economic measures. A prime example of this necessary transformation is our lithium hydroxide converter in Guben, Brandenburg. With a planned annual capacity for around 500,000 electric vehicles, we are making a tangible contribution to Europe’s independence in battery raw materials. The project is fully permitted, raw material supply is secured, and strategic partnerships – including with Mercedes-Benz – are already in place. 🏛️ The European Commission has classified our project as a “Strategic Project” under the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA). This makes the Guben converter one of the few projects considered particularly relevant for European raw material sovereignty. Now, reliable framework conditions are needed to strengthen the battery value chain in Europe and further reduce dependence on imports. We are ready to do our part. Many thanks to Matthias Jauch for the interview. 🔋🌍  #RockTechLithium #CRMA #Guben #RawMaterialSecurity #BatteryIndustry #Transformation #Europe