Developing lithium refining capability in the UK, securing critical raw materials for energy transition
Business overview
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
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| Website | greenlithium.co.uk |
| Sectors | Automotive & Transport Non-Digital B2B |
| Company number | 13137770 |
| Incorporation date | 15 Jan 2021 |
Investment summary
Business highlights
- Technical Development Centre established
- First lithium chemicals produced
- Non-dilutive grant, dependent on match funding
- Agreements in place with the supply chain
Pitch
About the Campaign
The world is finally waking up to the vulnerabilities in global critical mineral supply chains - particularly the lack of mid-stream refining capacity outside China. This bottleneck threatens the pace and resilience of the energy transition.
From its UK base, Green Lithium is building independent lithium refining capacity to directly address the mid-stream gap.
With supply agreements in place and first chemicals already produced, Green Lithium has a clear pathway to commercial production. We believe we are well positioned to capitalise on the next upward lithium market cycle - delivering new forward facing industrial capability and a secure supply of lithium chemicals for the energy transition.
Market Opportunity
Europe’s energy transition is accelerating, yet its supply chain for critical battery materials remains vulnerable. Today, the European EV and energy storage sectors are overwhelmingly reliant on lithium chemicals refined in China - a single-source dependency that poses risks to critical raw material supply and energy transition targets.
At the same time, demand for lithium chemicals in Europe is forecast to grow exponentially, driven by OEM electrification targets, and grid-scale storage deployment. Despite this, Europe has virtually no local refining capacity to meet its needs.
We believe the solution is clear, establishing a lithium refining capability in the UK will:
1 | Secure supply chains for cathode producers, battery manufacturers, and OEMs in Europe
2 | Enable downstream investment in battery manufacturing, recycling, and circular economy initiatives
3 | Build new future facing industrial capability in the UK & strengthen its manufacturing sector
Traction & Key Accomplishments
In the past 18 months Green Lithium has made excellent progress:
Jul-24 | MoU for lithium chemical offtake signed.
Oct-24 | Supply chain commercial partnership with Rio Tinto announced.
April-25 | Technical Development Centre opened in Teesside.
Jun-25 | First lithium chemicals produced.
Jul-25 | Five letters of support for raw material supply secured from 3 x major .ASX listed miners, 1 x .ASX listed developer and 1 x operating mine in Brazil.
Jul-25 | £500,000 grant successfully awarded under Innovate UK's Drive 35 programme. Please note that this grant is dependent on Green Lithium raising £500,000 by April 2026.
Aug-25 | Independent testwork campaign completed yielding >90% leach recovery validating flowsheet selection.
Aug-25 | First commercial sale of analcime co-product completed.
Oct-25 | Letter of support received from international trading and investment company
The company has a clear pathway to commercial production and believes it is well placed to capitalise on the next upward lithium market cycle.
Use of Funds
1 | Pilot Operation: Run an alkali pressure leach pilot, using facilities at a leading third party metallurgy laboratory, to generate key engineering parameters for the Demonstration Plant engineering design.
2 | Demonstration Plant Development: Develop the process and plant design for a pre-commercial demonstrator & confirm key equipment specifications.
3 | Analcime Product Development: Progress the product development programme to develop the mineral analcime co-product for sustainable construction applications.
4 | Corporate Development: Apply for Scale-Up grant (estimated at £10m value) and secure strategic/institutional equity financing to take the project to construction ready.
5 | Project Overheads: Grow the team and retain key staff to add value to the business
Key Information
Key information investment sheet
Key Investment Information Sheet is available by downloading the following documents:
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Danish]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [German]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [English]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Spanish]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [French]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Italian]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Dutch]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Portuguese]
- Key Investment Information Sheet [Swedish]
Innovate UK £500,000 Grant
Please note that the Innovate UK Grant mentioned in the Video and 'Accomplishments to Date' section of the campaign, is contingent on Green Lithium raising £500,000 of funding by April 2026.
The funds raised in this campaign will count towards the £500,000 of required matched funding.
Share Class
The Company has 3 classes of shares:
- A Ordinary Shares: currently held by Founders and pre-existing Seedrs/Republic Europe Investors. These shares have full voting and dividend rights.
- B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares: held by existing investors. These shares have no voting rights but carry dividend rights.
- C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares: held by the management team and advisors. These shares have no voting rights but carry dividend rights. The majority of C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares are held under option, though a small number are held outright as shares. For those held outright as shares, a small portion of the shareholders have fully paid for their shares (to the sum of £5,975.53) and the rest of the shares issued were funded by the Company (to the sum of £54,121.10), to be repaid on an exit event.
On an exit or liquidation, the order of priority is set out below.
Seedrs investors will receive A Ordinary Shares. All other investors in the round will receive B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares.
Liquidation
On a liquidation, the surplus assets will be distributed as follows:
First, holders of C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares will receive their investment amount back (i.e. the amount they paid up for their shares, if anything). For the avoidance of doubt, those holders of C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares who have not yet paid the Company for their shares will not receive any investment amount back.
Second, there are three potential distribution outcomes, depending on the amount of surplus assets remaining:
(1) If the remaining assets are insufficient to pay back the total amount invested across all shares in issue, each of the holders of A Ordinary and B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares will either receive:
(i) their full investment amount; or
(ii) if there are insufficient funds to do so, a pro rata amount of their initial investment amount;
OR
(2) If the remaining assets are enough so that each A Ordinary and B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shareholder could receive more per share than the highest subscription price paid per ordinary share in issue, then the remaining assets will be distributed to the A Ordinary and B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shareholders pro rata to their respective shareholdings;
OR
(3) If the remaining assets are more than the total amount invested across all shares in issue, but less than the highest subscription price per share paid, then the next step depends on whether (on a shareholder by shareholder basis) your investment amount or a pro rata distribution would be higher:
a)If a distribution pro rata to your shareholding would give a higher amount, then those shareholders will first receive their pro rata amount;
b) If a distribution based on your investment amount would be higher, then the pro rata distributions will be made first in accordance with limb (3)(a) and then the remaining shareholders will share in the remaining assets pro rata to their shareholding.
Exit
On an Exit, provided the Exit is greater than £60 million, proceeds will be distributed to the holders of A Ordinary Shares, B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares and C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares pro rata to the number of shares held.
If the Exit is less than £60m, then the proceeds will be distributed in the following order of priority:
First, in paying to each of the A Ordinary Shares, B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares and C Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares their initial investment amount back (provided they have fully paid for their shares), or if there are insufficient funds to do so, a pro rata amount of their initial investment amount.
Second, the remaining proceeds will be distributed to the A Ordinary Shares and B Ordinary (Non-Voting) Shares pro rata to the number of shares held.
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