Clean Battery Materials
Creating a Cleaner, More Resilient Battery Materials Supply Chain
Aqua Metals is advancing clean, low-carbon metals recycling and refining through innovation. At its Innovation Center, the company develops and scales AquaRefining™ technologies designed to produce high-purity battery materials while reducing emissions, minimizing waste, and improving worker safety.
Aqua Metals’ water-based, closed-loop approach returns critical metals to the domestic manufacturing supply chain without the furnaces, high temperatures, or toxic byproducts associated with conventional smelting and refining.
Our Mission: To provide sustainable metals recycling and refining for materials strategic to energy storage and electrification.
Aqua Metals’ innovation leadership is focused on addressing the environmental and supply chain challenges inherent in traditional mining and refining. By retaining critical metals within a domestic, low-carbon refining pathway, the company supports a more secure and resilient U.S. battery materials ecosystem.
Next-Generation Battery Materials Innovation
As demand for lithium-ion batteries accelerates across electric vehicles, grid-scale energy storage, and data infrastructure, Aqua Metals is applying its proven AquaRefining™ platform to a broader range of feedstocks.
The company is advancing pathways to refine battery-grade metals from:
Lithium-ion battery black mass
LFP and NMC manufacturing scrap
Alternative mineral sources, including ore and emerging resources
These efforts reflect Aqua Metals’ vision of a feedstock-agnostic refining platform designed to support commercial-scale deployment and long-term growth in critical battery materials markets.
