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Aqua Metals Reports 2025 Milestone Advancements, Strategic Progress, and Continued Commercialization Momentum
Company expands product platform, strengthens balance sheet, advances strategic partnerships, and positions AquaRefining™ for commercial scale RENO, Nev.,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Company expands product platform, strengthens balance sheet, advances strategic partnerships, and positions AquaRefining™ for commercial scale\nRENO, Nev., March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQMS) (“Aqua Metals” or “the Company”), a pioneer in sustainable battery metals recycling and refining, today announced key achievements from 2025 and outlined continued momentum as the Company advanced commercialization of its proprietary AquaRefining™ technology, expanded its product platform, strengthened its financial position, and broadened its strategic role in the domestic critical minerals supply chain. During 2025, Aqua Metals made measurable progress through technology development, commercial readiness, product validation, strategic partnerships, and capital formation. The Company refined its commercialization strategy for its first AquaRefining™ Campus (“ARC”), expanded capabilities across lithium, nickel, and mixed hydroxide products, demonstrated pilot-scale LFP recycling, advanced low-fluorine battery-grade lithium carbonate production, and deepened engagement with potential domestic and strategic supply-chain partners. “Our team delivered important milestones throughout 2025 that further validated the flexibility, scalability, and strategic positioning of AquaRefining™,” said Steve Cotton, President and CEO of Aqua Metals. “We expanded the range of battery materials our process can produce, improved product quality, strengthened our balance sheet, advanced our first commercial facility plans, and announced strategic collaborations that extend our platform beyond conventional battery recycling into refining and other applications. We believe these achievements position Aqua Metals to play an increasingly important role in building a secure, low-carbon, domestic critical minerals supply chain.” Aqua Metals Progress and Commercialization Highlights Technology Advancement and Product Expansion Refined the go-to-market product strategy for our first commercial facility to prioritize battery-grade lithium carbonate and mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP), a shift expected to more than double initial lithium output, improve margins, reduce remaining capital requirements, and support a targeted three-year payback.Achieved a major domestic battery-materials milestone by helping produce the first cathode active ...