“A thriving urban mining ecosystem is essential to reduce reliance on imports”, Saurav Goyal, Metastable Materials Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Bengaluru-based battery recycling startup Metastable Materials is pioneering a first-of-its-kind, chemical-free technology and system named ‘Integrated Carbonthermal Reduction’ (ICR) for ‘recycling’ of Li-Ion batteries in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner that can extract a wide range of materials from batteries, with more than 90% recovery rate. We caught up with co-founder and COO Saurav Goyal […] Read more
Metastable Materials Commissions Chemical Free Recycling Unit for Lithium Batteries Updated On Mon, Oct 10th, 2022 by Saurenergy Metastable Materials, a Bengaluru-based company, has announced the commissioning of an urban mining operation outside of Bengaluru, Karnataka, to scale up its current capabilities in the battery (Chemical Free Recycling) recycling/urban mining space and thereby fuel the startup’s strategic business expansion. To support and manage the “waste-as-ore” concept-based recycling of hazardous end-of-life batteries and products, […] Read more
Urban Mining Startup Metastable Materials Raises Pre-Seed Funding Updated On Thu, Jun 30th, 2022 by Saurenergy In its maiden fundraising round, Bengaluru-based urban mining startup Metastable Materials has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding from a clutch of angel investors and venture capital firms. The pre-seed round was led by Akshay Singhal and Kartik Hajela, Co-Founders of Log9 Materials – an advanced EV battery-technology and battery manufacturing company. Archana Priyadarshini, […] Read more