Electra Battery Materials CEO Trent Mell joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company received positive results from an engineering study and metallurgical test work for lithium-ion battery recycling.
Mell telling Proactive the Company has developed a flowsheet that can recover key elements from batteries, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper and graphite. Electra now has patent applications pending. Mell also said Engineering studies have confirmed that Electra's existing refinery complex has the infrastructure, scale and equipment to process a bulk sample of material on a full production scale basis in mid-2022 with an initial investment of under 3 million