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Aqua Metals produces high-purity LiOH directly from recycled lithium-ion batteries

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Aqua Metals has recovered high-purity lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility located at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). It is the only source of recycled battery-grade lithium hydroxide as feedstock for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage systems.

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Aqua Metals recovers high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass

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Aqua Metals’ Li AquaRefining technology recovers nickel and other valuable metals using electroplating in a closed-loop, eliminating the need for energy-intensive and wasteful chemical processes that increase the cost and the resulting pollution of recycling.

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Aqua Metals and 6K Energy partner to develop low-carbon CAM precursors for Li-ion batteries

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This partnership not only creates low-carbon resources for battery and electric vehicle manufacturers but also enables greater supply independence at a competitive cost and less production time than imported materials from foreign sources.

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