GEM Group focuses on the extraction and recycling of key global metals, the recycling of power lithium batteries, and the manufacturing of new energy battery materials. It has overcome key technologies and core technologies, built a high-value intellectual property system, and achieved self-reliance in core business patents. It ranks 230th among China's top 500 enterprises in terms of patent strength and 8th among China's new energy listed companies.
By the end of 2025, GEM had filed 6,200 patent applications and had 2,265 authorized and valid patents worldwide. It had led or participated in the formulation and revision of 630 standards. Its core patents covered more than 10 countries and regions, including Indonesia, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, forming a systematic and international intellectual property protection system.
Breakthroughs in key technologies and significant achievements
The company has overcome the technological bottlenecks in the efficient and green full-process resource recycling of low-grade and difficult-to-process nickel-cobalt-tungsten waste. It has developed technologies such as high- and low-temperature catalytic activation "native" technology, lattice repair technology, and one-step nickel-cobalt electrodeposition, enabling the "performance repair" and material remanufacturing of failed nickel-cobalt-tungsten elements. This allows for the short-process, high-value remanufacturing of ultrafine cobalt powder, 5N-grade high-purity electro-concentrated nickel/cobalt, and high-performance tungsten carbide CNC materials. This systematically solves long-standing technical problems in the industry, such as low resource recovery rates, poor regenerated quality, and high remanufacturing difficulty. A complete closed-loop industrial chain covering nickel-cobalt-tungsten waste recycling, high-purity extraction, and cemented carbide remanufacturing has been established, constructing a ten-million-ton-level nickel-cobalt-tungsten "urban mine" system to resolve strategic supply contradictions and support the national strategic resource needs for nickel-cobalt-tungsten. The waste nickel-cobalt-tungsten resource recycling technology won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2010.
The company focuses on key technological bottlenecks in the recycling of power lithium batteries, systematically carrying out theoretical, technological, and equipment innovation. It has overcome key technologies for the non-destructive dismantling and residual energy remanufacturing of retired batteries, as well as key technologies for the short-process virginization and economical recycling of low-value components of nickel, cobalt, manganese, and lithium. It has built the world's first intelligent production line for non-destructive dismantling and residual energy remanufacturing of retired batteries and a comprehensive processing line for 100,000 tons/year of waste batteries and electrode sheets, absorbing 10% of the nation's retired batteries. It has achieved independent intellectual property rights, effectively addressing resource and environmental security issues, and making a crucial contribution to the sustainable development of China's new energy industry! This technology has successively won honors such as the First Prize of Hubei Provincial Technological Invention Award in 2021, the Science and Technology Progress Award of China Environmental Protection Industry Association in 2024, and the Special Commendation Gold Medal at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition in 2025.
Through five major innovations—"Internet+" recycling, overall controlled crushing, intelligent identification and fine sorting, continuous low-temperature pyrolysis of circuit boards, and metal recycling and reuse—a green and circular process for the entire electronic waste treatment process has been achieved. This breakthrough has overcome environmental protection technologies for the non-incineration and non-oxidation treatment of scrapped circuit boards, resulting in a world-leading and China's largest scrapped circuit board processing line, hailed as the "nuclear missile" of China's electronic waste industry. This technology has won the first prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2017 and the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018.
Through mechanical sorting, thermochemical treatment, and densification technology, we have solved industry challenges such as intelligent sorting of automotive scrap residue (ASR) and solid fuel rod processing, achieving harmless, resource-based, and reduced-volume ASR treatment. Our safe and refined dismantling technology for end-of-life vehicles/new energy vehicles is at an internationally leading level, achieving safe emissions, efficient dismantling, and refined classification and recycling of power sources such as hydrogen and battery packs. We have established a circular recycling supply chain system with new energy vehicle manufacturers and raw material manufacturers. Our high-efficiency intelligent crushing system for end-of-life vehicles leads the industry, achieving status monitoring of the crushing system, intelligent identification of uncrushable materials, and predictive maintenance, significantly improving the operating efficiency of crushing equipment and effectively reducing system operation and maintenance costs.
Breakthroughs have been achieved in the innovative development of micron-level three-stage ultra-high nickel core-shell-concentration gradient technology and equipment. The world's first ultra-high nickel 9-series ternary and quaternary core-shell precursors have been successively released and officially mass-produced, filling industrialization gaps and fully demonstrating the absolute innovative strength of Chinese enterprises in the field of high-end new energy materials. Based on fluid dynamics simulation, the precipitation rate of doping elements has been precisely controlled, overcoming the in-situ precision doping technology of quaternary precursors, achieving the world's first 4.45 V ultra-high voltage Chinese technology route. A strategic cooperation has been established with the team of Professor Sun Xueliang, a leading scientist in the global energy materials field and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, to jointly focus on tackling core technologies for solid-state battery materials and jointly solve the industrialization problems of high-safety, high-energy-density battery materials, achieving small-scale mass production of new energy materials for solid-state batteries. A comprehensive ppb-level metal foreign matter quality control system has been implemented, reducing the magnetic foreign matter content of 9-series high-nickel, low-cobalt precursors to 0.67 ppb, entering the international industry's uncharted territory of quality.
Breakthroughs have been achieved in the key technologies and industrialization of simultaneous and efficient extraction of nickel, cobalt, and manganese from low-grade laterite nickel ore. Large-scale equipment has been localized, and annual nickel metal production capacity has reached full capacity of 150,000 tons (ranking among the top three HPAL projects globally). Key energy consumption indicators have been reduced by more than 10%, and investment costs have decreased from $800-1 billion USD per 10,000 tons of nickel to $200 million USD per 10,000 tons of nickel, benefiting the economic utilization of low-grade laterite nickel ore globally. Furthermore, a novel nickel-cobalt precipitant developed in collaboration with partners has achieved large-scale application, enabling efficient precipitation of nickel and cobalt. This has driven a reduction of over 10% in the precipitation cost per ton of MHP products, and increased the overall nickel-cobalt grade to 46%, exceeding industry benchmarks.
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