What Green Manganese does

Green Manganese Technologies Inc. (DBA Green Manganese) is a Vancouver-based private cleantech manufacturing company founded in 2024 that has developed a proprietary water-based, closed-loop hydrometallurgical process for recovering battery-grade manganese from low-grade ores, mining tailings, and industrial waste streams, including smelter dust (SAFD). The process replaces conventional acid-based extraction with a chloride-based reagent system, achieving up to 80% reduction in waste and emissions and 6–10x lower energy consumption. Bench-scale results, validated by the University of British Columbia's Department of Materials Engineering, demonstrate 100% manganese extraction from 34% Mn ore, over 60% from 19% Mn ore, and 91% from 9.5% SAFD, with secondary recovery of cobalt, copper, nickel, zinc, and potassium.

The company's product offerings center on manganese pellets for the steel industry and critical manganese products for batteries and green steel applications. Revenue is generated through B2B enterprise sales of manganese products under quote-based pricing to industrial customers, with the go-to-market executed via direct sales in North America and a letter-of-intent distribution partnership with Scandinavian Steel AB in Europe. The primary customer segments are European and North American steel manufacturers seeking to decarbonize and diversify away from Chinese imports, and battery manufacturers requiring sustainably sourced, high-purity manganese.

Operationally, the company is pre-revenue with 1–10 employees, headquartered at 550 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, with R&D and pilot-scale activities housed at the RecycLiCo Battery Materials Innovation Centre in Delta, BC under a fee-for-use arrangement. Strategic support comes from a $100,000 seed investment by NorthX Climate Tech, technology validation by UBC, and institutional research collaborations with the National Research Council Canada and Mitacs. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and formal offtake agreements with named end customers have not been announced.

Name

Green Manganese

Legal name

Green Manganese Technologies Inc.

Website

https://greenmanganese.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Green Manganese Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based cleantech company that uses a proprietary water-based, closed-loop hydrometallurgical process to recover high-purity manganese from low-grade ores, tailings, and industrial waste, serving steel and battery manufacturers across North America and Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Critical Minerals Processing

NAICS

Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (325180), Chemical Manufacturing (325)

SIC

Primary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3330), Industrial Inorganic Chemicals (2810)

akta.pro primary industry

Manganese Ore Mining & Concentrates (IMAKAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mining & Metals Process & Water Chemicals (IMAEAJAJ)

Keywords

• Manganese extraction technology
• Hydrometallurgical processing
• Battery-grade manganese
• Critical minerals processing
• Green steel materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Manganese Product Sales: Sale of high-purity manganese pellets and products to industrial customers in the steel and battery industries. Products recovered from low-grade ores and industrial waste streams using proprietary extraction technology.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Green Manganese develops and sells a proprietary water-based, closed-loop hydrometallurgical extraction technology that uses chlorides instead of acids to recover high-purity manganese from low-grade ores, tailings, and industrial waste streams such as smelter dust (SAFD). The company manufactures and supplies the resulting manganese products—primarily manganese pellets for the steel industry and critical manganese products for battery applications—to industrial customers in North America and Europe.

Product overview

Green Manganese Technologies Inc. is a Canadian cleantech company that has developed a next-generation manganese extraction technology platform. The core offering is a water-based, closed-loop extraction process that replaces traditional acid-based methods with chlorides, enabling recovery of high-purity manganese from low-grade ores, tailings, and industrial waste. The company's product portfolio includes manganese pellets for the steel industry and critical manganese products for batteries and green steel applications. Technology has been validated through bench-scale testing at the University of British Columbia and recently moved to the RecycLiCo Battery Materials Innovation Centre for pilot-scale development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Manganese Extraction Technology Proprietary water-based, closed-loop hydrometallurgical extraction technology using chlorides instead of acids to recover high-purity manganese from low-grade ores, tailings, and industrial waste. Designed for industrial deployment by steel and battery manufacturers seeking sustainable manganese supply.
• Manganese Pellets High-purity manganese pellets manufactured via Green Manganese's proprietary extraction process, supplied to the European steel industry as a sustainable alternative to Chinese manganese imports.
• Critical Manganese Products High-value, high-purity manganese products derived from untapped resources such as low-grade ores and tailings, targeted at battery manufacturers and green steel producers for clean energy and industrial transition applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in waste and emissions
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• RecycLiCo Battery MaterialscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Fee-for-use arrangement with RecycLiCo Battery Materials Innovation Centre in Delta, British Columbia. Provides Green Manganese with access to advanced hydrometallurgy testing infrastructure and pilot-scale capabilities. The arrangement accelerates technology development timeline and advances commercialization for battery and steel industries. RecycLiCo benefits from a revenue-generating platform.
• Scandinavian Steel ABcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 11 December 2025Letter of intent signed with European metals distributor Scandinavian Steel AB to supply manganese pellets to the European steel industry. This partnership is central to Green Manganese's international expansion strategy, enabling access to European markets and positioning the company to compete with Chinese manganese imports through established distribution channels.
• University of British Columbia - Department of Materials EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnology validation partnership for extensive bench-scale testing of the water-based, closed-loop extraction process. Results confirm efficient performance across multiple feedstocks and scalability potential for continuous pilot operations.
• National Research Council Canada (NRC)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner/institutional collaborator on the company website, indicating collaboration on research and development initiatives for critical minerals processing technology.
• MitacssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner/institutional collaborator supporting research initiatives, indicating access to Canadian research funding and academic partnerships for technology development.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• South32 Limited: South32 is a major diversified miner with one of the world's largest manganese operations (GEMCO in Australia). It is a broad incumbent peer in manganese production, with established customer relationships with steelmakers and battery-materials buyers; Green Manganese competes against its manganese output, particularly in Europe and Asia.
• Glencore plc: Glencore is one of the world's largest commodity traders and miners with significant manganese and cobalt production. It is a broad incumbent comparable in manganese supply to global steel and battery customers, and represents the type of at-scale integrated supplier that Green Manganese's low-carbon, Western positioning is partly designed to displace.
• Jupiter Mines Limited: Jupiter Mines produces manganese ore from the Tshipi Borwa mine in South Africa, supplying the global steel and battery materials markets. It is a broad incumbent peer in manganese concentrate supply with comparable end-customers, though operating at substantially larger scale than Green Manganese's planned production.
• Eramet SA: Eramet is a French mining and metallurgy group with large manganese ore and ferroalloy operations (notably in Gabon via COMILOG). It is a broad incumbent supplying manganese to European steel markets — the same end-customer base Green Manganese is targeting — and represents the established cost benchmark Green Manganese must undercut.
• OM Holdings Limited: OM Holdings is a vertically integrated manganese and ferroalloy producer with mining and smelting operations in Malaysia and South Africa. It is a broad incumbent comparable in product (manganese ore, alloys) and end-market (global steel industry), competing with Green Manganese's European distribution ambitions.

Direct peers

• RecycLiCo Battery Materials: RecycLiCo is a Canadian hydrometallurgical battery-materials recycling and processing company, and is also Green Manganese's current infrastructure partner. It is comparable as a North American hydrometallurgy platform addressing battery-materials supply, with overlapping technical approach (closed-loop chloride-based processing) and end-customer base.
• Euro Manganese Inc. Euro Manganese is developing the Chvaletice Manganese Project in the Czech Republic to produce high-purity manganese for batteries and other applications from a tailings resource. It is directly comparable to Green Manganese in feedstock type (legacy tailings), target product (battery-grade manganese), and end-market focus (European EV/battery supply chain).
• Manganese X Energy Corp. Manganese X Energy is a Canadian-listed developer focused on producing battery-grade manganese for the EV and energy-storage markets. It is a directly comparable peer in product (high-purity manganese) and end-market (battery manufacturers), though Green Manganese differentiates via a chloride-based hydrometallurgical route rather than Manganese X's mining-and-processing approach.

Emerging players

• Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. Li-Cycle is a North American battery-materials recycler using a hydrometallurgical "wet" process to recover critical minerals including manganese, cobalt, and nickel. It is an emerging-player peer addressing the same end-market (battery materials) with a comparable chemistry-based, feedstock-flexible processing approach.
• Cirba Solutions: Cirba Solutions is a North American battery-materials processor that uses hydrometallurgical methods to recover critical minerals including manganese, cobalt, and nickel from end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap. It is an emerging-player peer with comparable technology platform and end-market focus on battery-grade critical minerals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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