Aqua Metals (NASDAQ: AQMS) has announced a breakthrough in recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries using its AquaRefining technology. 

The company successfully recovered critical battery metals like copper at production scale by using electricity, the pilot Li AquaRefining system which is a patent-pending process has proven to remove impurities and trace metals from recycled lithium batteries and selectively recover pure metal. 

This new technology has the potential to make the recycling industry cleaner, more efficient and adaptable to new lithium battery chemistries. The company has a strong commitment towards clean energy and sustainable operations.

Steve Cotton, President and CEO of Aqua Metals stated: “We believe Li AquaRefining can play an important role in accelerating the development of a secure, sustainable domestic supply chain for minerals essential to electric vehicle and battery energy storage manufacturers, and this is a key step towards delivering our clean recycled metals to market to meet the growing demand for domestically-sourced content.”

Aqua Metals is pioneering a sustainable recycling solution for materials strategic to energy storage and electric vehicle manufacturing supply chains. AquaRefining™ is a low-emissions, closed-loop recycling technology that replaces polluting furnaces and hazardous chemicals with electricity-powered electroplating to recover valuable metals and materials from spent batteries with higher purity, lower emissions, and minimal waste.

Shares of Aqua Metals trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol AQMS.