Lohum, India's largest producer and processor of sustainable critical minerals, announced the expansion of its lithium refining capabilities with a 1000 MT/A battery-grade Lithium facility.

Lohum currently refines more than 90% of all lithium in India, making it one of the largest lithium refiners in the world outside of China. Lohum’s lithium refining operations will shore up India’s energy security and make the nation competitive across global critical minerals, EV, and energy transition markets.

Having grown 20x in the last 4 years, Lohum is not only the largest lithium refiner in India but is also setting up production capabilities for value-added products like Cathode Active Materials (CAM) that go directly into Lithium-ion battery gigafactories. This will make Lohum the largest direct consumer of lithium in India by 2030, by when the world is expected to consume almost 1.5 million tons of lithium carbonate annually for 4000 GWh of cell production, with more than half of this demand coming from outside China.

Rajat Verma, Founder & CEO of Lohum Corporation, said, "Lohum's lithium refining leadership, coupled with our growing capabilities in value-added products like Cathode Active Materials, positions us as a key partner in building a Viksit and Atmanirbhar Bharat. We are sustainably producing globally competitive critical mineral products at low CapEx and OpEx, thereby reducing India's reliance on Chinese lithium imports."

The company's lithium refining capabilities, with current recovery rates of 90%+ (the industry average is 60-70%) and purity of 99.8%+, slated to reach 99.99% shortly on the back of R&D breakthroughs.