Microalgae cultivation, applied to rare earth recovery.

Algamol is a cultivation platform, built on a photobioreactor proven in aquaculture feed.

Critical raw materials recovery is a new offering built on that platform.

The Algamol photobioreactor at night, green culture panels lit above the tanks
Pipework and blue valves on a culture tank

The Algamol photobioreactor at night. Studio rendering.

IndustrialINDEPENDENCE
RECYCLED0%

Of EU consumption of strategic raw materials met by recycling: the 2030 benchmark in the Critical Raw Materials Act. Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, per Jones Day, May 2026.

Every magnet carries rare earths.

Making magnets leaves a waste liquor that still carries them.

Industrial independence runs on rare earths.

Europe is moving to keep its magnet scrap at home.

The next mine is the waste.

Microalgae can be the bridge between the need and the biology.

The supply risk is on recordIEA, 8 Apr 2026; Regulation (EU) 2024/1252
We grow the biologyAlgamol
The science is establishedPublished literature

We connected the two because we hold the cultivation. Our own data on real liquor is the next step.

Magnet production creates waste liquor that carries rare earths.

Algal biomass captures them.

We grow the biomass in our own photobioreactor.

Illustration, not data.

The reactor that grows the biomass

Culture grows in the glass panels on top and the tanks below hold the volume. Pumps and pipework move it, and one steel frame carries all of it.

It first ran at a fish farm, in a commercial industrial setting. We are now moving it to our own site in Larnaca.

  • Glass culture panelsThe culture grows here.
  • Culture tanksThey hold the volume.
  • Pumps and pipeworkThey move the culture.
  • Steel frameIt carries the unit.

Our photobioreactor, turned through a full circle. Studio rendering.

The Algamol photobioreactor in daylight: two glass culture panels with green culture, two tanks, a steel frame

Look closer.

The biomass that captures rare earths.

Algal biomass captures the rare earths in magnet waste liquor. We grow it.

Studio rendering.

Capture, polish, regenerate

  1. CaptureNon-living algal biomass captures the rare earths in magnet waste liquor.
  2. PolishA living culture polishes the liquid that is left.
  3. RegenerateThe living culture grows fresh biomass for the next round of capture.

Process as designed. Recovery is shown in peer-reviewed research. Our own data on real liquor is the next step.

The rim of the glass culture panels against the sky
The glass culture panels at night, lit green
The apex of a glass culture panel against the sky

Studio rendering.

BIORECOV, initiated by Algamol

A Horizon Europe project, coordinated by Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples. Submitted, under evaluation. If it is funded:

€5M
Horizon Europe funding
BIORECOV proposal, under evaluation
48
Months of work
BIORECOV proposal, under evaluation
about 1 m³
Of leachate treated in the demonstration, ending in precipitation to a shippable solid
BIORECOV proposal, under evaluation

The team

  • Yair Cohen
    Yair CohenCEO and Founder
  • Christos Spanos
    Christos SpanosCFO, CFA charterholder
  • Amikam Bar-Gil
    Amikam Bar-GilCTO

Rare earths, mined from magnet waste by microalgae.

Investors.

Magnet makers and recyclers to host a pilot.

Partners for EU consortia.

Book a meeting Meet us at Slush, Helsinki, 18 to 19 Nov yair@algamol.com