About Us
JPM Silicon develops and implements technologies for the production, refinement and recycling of silicon. Today, silicon is an indispensable raw material for our society: as an alloying element, in chemical products or in solar cells and computer chips. Yet production is energy-intensive and associated with indirect and direct CO2 emissions.
Our long-term goal is to produce CO2-neutral silicon. Our focus is on silicon for solar cells - and thus a truly green energy supply.
Quick Facts
JPM Silicon - Group of Companies
Since
2010
Team
10+
Patents
3
History
Founding idea
JPM Silicon GmbH is founded on the basis of a first patent for the extraction of silicon.
Prototypes
The first prototypes are built at the Braunschweig site.
Plant engineering and development
In addition to extraction, the recycling of silicon is becoming the focus of the company.
Silicon trade
Silicon Suppliers GmbH starts trading in silicon and related raw materials.
Change to a
Technology Company
Technology and brand are transferred to JPM Technologies GmbH.
2010
2011
2012
2014
2016
2018
GreenTec Award
Best Young Researcher
Weconomy
Winner - Organizer Wissensfabrik e.V.
Start Green Award
Winner Green-Tec Start-ups
EIT RawMaterials
2. Winner
Construction of a
recycling plant
JPM Silicon (HK) Ltd. starts planning the first recycling plant.
2019
InnoAlliance
Winner Clean-Tech
Start recycling
of solar modules
With Solar Materials, JPM Silicon is positioning itself in the recycling of solar modules.
2021
Management
Since his school days, JPM Silicon founder Dr.-Ing. Jan-Philipp Mai (34) has been passionate about solar energy. He was particularly fascinated by silicon, the raw material that solar cells use to convert sunlight into electricity.
Like a thread, the topic runs from the first "Jugend forscht" competitions in 2001, through his mechanical engineering studies and doctorate. A first patent application laid the foundation for the founding of the company.
Since then, the team has been developing innovative technologies under the brand JPM Silicon along the entire value chain - so that solar cells not only deliver green electricity, but are also produced sustainably.
Group of Companies
Braunschweig,
Germany
Technology development
Silicon trade
Solar module recycling
Hongkong,
S.A.R. China
Silicon recycling
Within the group of companies, we now combine technology development and silicon trading in Braunschweig with the construction of the first silicon recycling plant in Asia.