VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 8, 2021 /CNW/ - Rock Tech Lithium
Inc. (the "Company" or "Rock Tech") (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF)
(FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) is pleased to announce that Esther Bahne has joined the Company's management
team as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer.
Esther Bahne brings more than 16
years of experience in the automotive industry, previously working
at BMW Group, where she served as the Global Head of Strategy and
Innovation and Chief Marketing Officer at MINI, being responsible
for the entire relaunch of the MINI brand, and at Audi AG, where
she led the company's Social Innovation practice and established
its corporate sustainability strategy.
"We are thrilled to have Esther join our fast-growing, high
caliber team," said Dirk
Harbecke, Rock Tech's Chairman & Chief Executive
Officer. "Not only does she bring a wealth of experience and
intricate knowledge of the automotive industry, she's also an
accomplished strategist and visionary with a track record of
leading interdisciplinary, diverse teams with operations around the
world."
Esther Bahne, Chief Strategy
& Marketing Officer: "I am excited to join Rock Tech on its
mission to fuel the green energy revolution. Our future life is
based on batteries – from mobile phones to cars. But if we want to
rely on battery power to transform both our energy and mobility
sectors and battle climate change, we need to ensure we produce
them sustainably. Rock Tech is a pioneer in this effort, and I will
support them in becoming the first closed-loop lithium company
world-wide."
As the Company's Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer,
Esther Bahne will drive Rock Tech's
sustainability agenda, help it develop its recycling business, and
redeem its promise as a cleantech company zeroing out emissions,
one lithium battery at a time.
About Rock Tech Lithium Inc.
Rock Tech Lithium is a cleantech company with operations in
Canada and Germany that will supply the automotive
industry with high quality lithium hydroxide "made in Germany". As early as 2024, the company will
commission Europe's first lithium
converter with a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes per year.
This is equivalent to the volume needed to equip around 500,000
electric cars with lithium-ion batteries.
The cleantech company has set itself the goal of creating the
world's first closed loop for lithium, thus closing the raw
material gap on the road to clean mobility. Rock Tech owns the
Georgia Lake lithium project in Ontario,
Canada and, as early as 2030, around 50 percent of the raw
materials used are expected to come from the recycling of
batteries.
Rock Tech Lithium is listed on the TSX Venture and Frankfurt stock exchanges. The company is led
by Dirk Harbecke, Chairman &
CEO, Stefan Krause, Chief Financial
Officer, and Don Stevens, Chief
Technology Officer and Esther Bahne
as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer.
Rock Tech Lithium - The super fuel for the battery
age
www.rocktechlithium.com
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking
Information
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cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or
referenced by, this news release.
Certain information set forth in this news release contains
"forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of
historical facts included in this news release, including those
regarding Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations, business
strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects,
mineral resource estimates, drilling and modeling plans, and plans
and objectives of management for operations and properties
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forward-looking information set forth in this news release are
expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements
referred to in this section.
Forward-looking information is based on certain estimates,
expectations, analysis and opinions that are believed by management
of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made or in
certain cases, on third party expert opinions. It should be noted
that, in order to achieve its objectives, Rock Tech will be
required to raise additional funding and the availability of
financing on satisfactory terms is not guaranteed. This
forward-looking information was derived utilizing numerous
assumptions regarding, among other things, the supply and demand
for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of,
intermediate and final lithium products, expected growth,
performance and business operation, prospects and opportunities,
general business and economic conditions, results of development
and exploration, Rock Tech's ability to procure supplies and other
equipment necessary for its business, including development and
exploration activities. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all
assumptions which may have been used in developing the
forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these
assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently
available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking
information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance
or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and
unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which
are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause Rock Tech's actual
events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially
different from that which is expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may
cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to
vary materially include the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to
meet its financial obligations as they fall due, changes in
commodity prices, Rock Tech's ability to retain and attract skilled
staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers,
unanticipated events and other difficulties related to
construction, development and operation of converters and mines,
the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and
other laws and regulations, title defects, competition from
existing and new competitors, changes in currency exchange rates
and market prices of Rock Tech's securities, Rock Tech's history of
losses, impacts of climate change and other risks and uncertainties
discussed under the heading "Financial Instruments and Other Risks"
in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and
Analysis, a copy of which is filed electronically through SEDAR and
is available online at www.sedar.com. Such risks and uncertainties
do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could
cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to
vary materially from the forward-looking information.
We cannot assure you that actual events, results, performance
and/or achievements will be consistent with the forward-looking
information and management's assumptions may prove to be incorrect.
Our forward-looking information reflects Rock Tech management's
views as at the date the information is created. Except as may be
required by law, Rock Tech undertakes no obligation and expressly
disclaims any responsibility, obligation or undertaking to update
or to revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result
of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect any
change in Rock Tech's expectations or any change in events,
conditions or circumstances on which any such information is
based.
The forward-looking information contained herein is presented
for the purposes of assisting readers in understanding Rock Tech's
plans, objectives and goals and is not appropriate for any other
purposes.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to rely on
the forward-looking information set forth in this news release.
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