Aqua Metals, Inc. with its AquaRefining™ technology, has commenced Aqualyzer equipment shipments to ACME Metal, the world's first licensed AquaRefining facility. These shipments, both from the U.S. and from in-country equipment suppliers the company has established in Taiwan, will support the previously announced plan to install and commission the AquaRefining facility in early 2022. The facility will produce ultrapure AquaRefined briquettes for ACME Metal's Asia Pacific-based global battery manufacturing customers to develop a direct to battery-grade oxide production process.

This will bring the AquaRefining process one step closer to streamlining the link between battery recycling and new battery manufacturing by eliminating the economic and environmental costs of manufacturing ingots from the recycling process.