Facility

Nemaska Lithium Becancour Conversion Plant

Primary-source record for Nemaska Lithium Becancour Conversion Plant. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with spodumene-concentrate as input and battery-grade-lithium-hydroxide-monohydrate as output. Current state was rechecked for the Phase 2 launch-date sweep on 2026-08-18.

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 18, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Becancour, Quebec, Canada

Lithium chemicals

Nemaska Lithium Becancour Conversion Plant qualifying line

Under construction

Calcination, sulfation, leaching, purification, caustification and crystallization of spodumene concentrate to LiOH.H2O

Material flow

Spodumene Concentrate → Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate

Capacity

34,000 metric-tonne-per-year · Product mass · Nameplate · as of Mar 13, 2026

Qualification

Commercial production · The cited primary source identifies the line output as battery grade or battery quality. · Mar 13, 2026

Sources

Nemaska Lithium Inc. · published Oct 1, 2023 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive
Rio Tinto · published Mar 13, 2026 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19; no snapshot was verified.