Aqua Metals (AQMS) Rockets on Battery-Recycling Breakthroughs and Strategic Deals
Company and Technology Overview Aqua Metals is a pre-revenue “moonshot”-type company that has been known for recycling lead-acid batteries with its AquaRefining™ technology, and is now pivoting to lithium-ion batteries. ts2.tech Its patented process shreds spent Li-ion batteries into “black mass” and uses only water and electricity (no furnaces or toxic acids) to extract lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and copper. The result, the company says, is very pure battery materials with far lower emissions than traditional smelting ts2.tech ts2.tech. For example, Aqua Metals recently reported it produced lithium carbonate with under 30 ppm fluorine – meeting stringent battery-grade specifications – and
