AraBat
AraBat is a critical materials recovery company that uses biomass—orange peels, apple peels, artichoke leaves, grape pomace, and sea algae—to replace harsh industrial acids in recycling lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earths from batteries and electronics. Its patented AraMet technology achieves up to 60% lower costs and 50% lower CO₂ emissions, with zero SOx and NOx emissions by design. The company operates through tolling, merchant, and licensing business models to serve manufacturers and industrial partners.
- Clean Technology
- Chemical Technology
- Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
Funding
Raised to date
$120KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Critical materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earths are essential for batteries, electronics, and clean energy systems, yet their recycling relies on harsh industrial acids and chemicals typically imported from a handful of concentrated foreign supply chains. This dependence creates supply chain fragility, high costs, and significant environmental pollution from traditional recycling processes.
Solution
AraBat replaces industrial acids and harsh chemicals with organic acids and plant by-products—orange peels, apple peels, artichoke leaves, grape pomace, and sea algae—to recover critical materials from spent batteries, capacitors, and electronic waste. The company's patented AraMet technology dissolves and recovers metals using agricultural waste, achieving up to 60% lower costs and up to 50% lower CO₂ emissions compared to conventional methods, with zero SOx and NOx emissions by design. AraBat operates through three business models: tolling (processing manufacturers' scrap for a fee), merchant (recovering and selling materials directly), and licensing (licensing AraMet technology to industrial partners for specific regions). The process is designed to be deployable anywhere agricultural by-products are available, reducing dependence on centralized refineries and mines.
Target Audience
Primary customers are battery and electronics manufacturers seeking sustainable scrap processing, industrial partners interested in licensing bio-based recycling technology, and buyers of recovered critical materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earths.
Features
- Patented AraMet bio-based recycling technology using organic acids and agricultural by-products (orange peels, apple peels, artichoke leaves, grape pomace, sea algae) instead of industrial acids
- Recovery of lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and rare earths from lithium batteries, capacitors, magnets, and electronic waste
- Up to 60% lower processing costs compared to conventional chemical recycling
- Up to 50% lower CO₂ emissions with zero SOx and NOx emissions by design (no combustion, sulfur, or mineral acids)
- Tolling service for manufacturers to process their own scrap while retaining material ownership
- Merchant service selling recovered high-value critical materials directly
- Licensing model for industrial partners to operate AraMet technology in specific geographical regions, including joint development agreements and joint ventures