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Built to build. End-to-end water-to-lithium execution with proven industrial experience.
Sustainable Lithium Extraction
What if the cleanest lithium didn’t come from a distant, high-cost mine?
At Lithium Harvest, we are pioneering sustainable lithium extraction right at the source. Our patented solution turns oilfield wastewater and geothermal brine into battery-grade lithium - faster, cleaner, and more cost-effectively than traditional mining - supplying the rapidly growing EV and battery markets.
- Fastest-to-market: Online in 12-18 months vs an average of 14 years for traditional mines.
- The world’s most sustainable lithium: Carbon-neutral, no pits, no ponds - waste to value.
- Lowest costs: Up to 73% lower CapEx and 48% lower OpEx.
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| Corporate name | Lithium Harvest Holding A/S | Holding company for the Lithium Harvest platform. |
| Founded | 2020 by Sune Mathiesen (CEO) & Paw Juul (CTO) | Built on decades of industrial water treatment, separation, and process engineering experience, supported by six years of focused R&D and technology validation. |
| Shares O/S | Approx. 77.5M | - |
| Headquarters | Aalborg, Denmark | In-house engineering, process development, automation, and water-treatment expertise. |
| Platform | Integrated brine-to-lithium system | Combines pretreatment, adsorption-based DLE, refining, automation, and operations - not a standalone DLE component. |
| Business model | DBOO (Design, Build, Own, and Operate) | Partners can participate in lithium upside without becoming lithium operators. |
| IP portfolio | Key patents granted 2023; additional filings pending | Creates a defensible moat ahead of broader DLE adoption. |
| All-in cost | OpEx: $3,647/t; CapEx: $17,100/t (OpEx up to 48% lower and CapEx up to 73% lower vs current global averages) | Market-leading cost efficiency enables profitable entry and operation in challenging, price-volatile conditions. |
| Planned capacity | 1,100t LCE/yr first lithium production (2027) - 79,000t LCE/yr at full rollout (2036) | Domestic supply ramp into a widening NA projected supply deficit (~172,000 t in 2027 to ~325,000 t by 2034) - supply security + demand pull. |
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We turn wastewater into battery-grade lithium - faster, cleaner, and more cost-effective than traditional mining. We’re setting the global standard for the world’s most sustainable lithium, driving EV and energy storage markets
towards a greener future.
Lithium mining doesn’t have to cost the Earth.
Our Story
Solving a decade-old waste problem - and scaling to revenue inside five years.
Lithium Harvest began as a field insight in 2012, when founders Sune Mathiesen and Paw Juul were running a produced-water treatment pilot for a major oil and gas company.
Produced water - often managed as a waste stream containing oil, solids, salts, and dissolved minerals - revealed an overlooked opportunity: valuable minerals, including lithium, already present in existing water infrastructure. That discovery sparked years of focused R&D and laid the foundation for a new approach to sustainable lithium extraction.
By 2020, Lithium Harvest had been incorporated as a dedicated cleantech venture, combining decades of industrial water treatment, separation, and process execution experience with a patented lithium extraction platform. The team’s background includes more than 400 industrial water-treatment systems delivered, giving Lithium Harvest practical execution experience in complex, high-uptime operating environments.
With its core technologies advanced and IP protection in place, Lithium Harvest is now moving from development toward commercialization. The company’s first commercial facilities are targeted to begin operations in 2027, with the initial project portfolio modeled to reach approximately 42,000 tpa LCE at full ramp before broader pipeline projects. Including pipeline projects, the model reaches approximately 79,000 tpa LCE by 2036 - positioning Lithium Harvest to become a scalable, cash-generating lithium producer.
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| 2012 | Field pilot identifies recoverable lithium in produced water | Waste-to-value insight grounded in real oilfield operations. |
| 2018 | Initial R&D | Bench-scale R&D and techno-economic model for a viable business case, not just green. |
| 2020 | Lithium Harvest incorporated | Focused cleantech venture built around 20+ years of water-treatment expertise. |
| 2022 | R&D completed and patent application filed | Validates commercial viability and locks the IP gateway before scale-up. |
| 2024 | Core patent family granted (Denmark granted 2022 | US pending | International PCT) | IP moat ahead of scale-up |
| 2026 | Uplist to a major U.S. exchange (NYSE) | Elevates corporate profile and liquidity, strengthens governance credibility with customers, lenders, and strategic partners. |
| 2026-2029 | Commercialization stage | Modeled ramp to 37,705 tpa LCE by 2029 - approx. 4.1x today’s estimated North American lithium supply (~9,300 tpa). |
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Management Team
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Sune Mathiesen
Chairman & CEO
- Former CEO, President & Director of Nasdaq-listed LiqTech International
- 20+ years of board and executive leadership in water technology and cleantech
- Co-developed multiple proprietary water treatment technologies and commercialized over 400 industrial systems
- Proven experience in capital raising, corporate scale-up, and strategic growth
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Thomas Lund Hansen
CFO
- Former Strategy Director at Grundfos; extensive mining and industrial background
- Held key finance and management roles at FL Smidth, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Bryanston Resources UK
- 25+ years in mining project development, corporate finance, and strategic operations
- Expert in project funding, financial planning, and operational execution
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Paw Juul
CTO & Director
- Former CEO of LiqTech Water (subsidiary of LiqTech International)
- Co-founder of Provital, with deep expertise in water treatment innovation and development
- 20+ years developing scalable industrial water solutions with over 400 large-scale industrial systems installed worldwide
- Leads R&D and technology deployment for our patented direct lithium extraction process
Leadership
Execution pedigree - why this leadership team can deliver.
- 400-plus industrial systems already built. The founders have designed, engineered, and commissioned more than 400 large-scale water-treatment systems on five continents - industrial proof that complex process plants can be brought online on budget and to specification.
- Automated reliability is built in. A proprietary, fully automated control algorithm, proven across over 400 industrial systems, will run our modular lithium extraction units, ensuring safe, efficient, and consistent performance from day one.
- Over two decades of C-suite experience. The core leadership group brings 20+ years of executive management in public and private companies, including two Nasdaq chief executive tenures and multiple growth-stage transitions.
- Heavy-asset finance & operations expertise. Senior finance leaders have overseen multi-million-dollar mining and process plant portfolios, aligning project economics with lender requirements and implementing disciplined capital allocation and project execution.
In short, the team combines deep process engineering, heavy-asset financial rigor, and public-market governance - the precise skill set needed to scale Lithium Harvest’s first 8,338t LCE facilities and the multi-plant pipeline that follows.