Aqua Metals wins sustainability award

Aqua Metals wins sustainability award
<![CDATA[Aqua Metals Inc., Alameda, California, has announced that it has been named the winner of the Sustainable Technology Award in the 2016 IChemE awards program.

Presented by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), United Kingdom, the IChemE awards program aims to recognize organizations that are raising the bar in the field by improving the practices and applications of chemical engineering. The organization says it has recognized Aqua Metals for its innovation and sustainability efforts in transforming the way lead is recycled.

Aqua Metals produces a nonpolluting electrochemical lead recycling technology called AquaRefining. The company recently produced for the first time its AquaRefined lead at its flagship AquaRefinery lead-acid battery recycling facility in McCarran, Nevada.

In addition to the sustainability award, Aqua Metals has received a special mention by ICIS in the Best Process Innovation award category. ICIS, London, is the world’s largest petrochemical market information provider. The ICIS Innovation Award aims to recognize companies and individuals who have shown innovation in chemical products and processes. The organization takes into consideration the way the innovations benefit the environment and lead the way towards sustainability. ICIS highlighted Aqua Metals’ efforts for taking significant technological and business steps toward making AquaRefining a tangible reality in 2016.

Both awards recognize the company’s AquaRefining process, which, Aqua Metals says, has the potential to revolutionize the lead recycling industry through producing ultra-pure lead with a fundamentally nonpolluting, water-based, room temperature process.

“To be honored by two leaders in the chemical engineering industry in such a short time brings attention to the magnitude of the changes we intend to make in the way lead is processed,” says Stephen R. Clarke, Aqua Metals chairman and CEO.

The first AquaRefinery located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Nevada was built in less than 18 months after the company went public in July 2015. Aqua Metals says it is partnering with companies in the industry, including Interstate Batteries and Battery Systems International, to supply spent lead acid battery cores to the first AquaRefinery.
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Source: Recycling Today
Aqua Metals wins sustainability award
<![CDATA[Aqua Metals Inc., Alameda, California, has announced that it has been named the winner of the Sustainable Technology Award in the 2016 IChemE awards program.Presented by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), United Kingdom, the IChemE awards program aims to recognize organizations that are raising the bar in the field by improving the practices and applications of chemical engineering. The organization says it has recognized Aqua Metals for its innovation and sustainability efforts in transforming the way lead is recycled.Aqua Metals produces a nonpolluting electrochemical lead recycling technology called AquaRefining. The company recently produced for the first time its AquaRefined lead at its flagship AquaRefinery lead-acid battery recycling facility in McCarran, Nevada.In addition to the sustainability award, Aqua Metals has received a special mention by ICIS in the Best Process Innovation award category. ICIS, London, is the world’s largest petrochemical market information provider. The ICIS Innovation Award aims to recognize companies and individuals who have shown innovation in chemical products and processes. The organization takes into consideration the way the innovations benefit the environment and lead the way towards sustainability. ICIS highlighted Aqua Metals’ efforts for taking significant technological and business steps toward making AquaRefining a tangible reality in 2016.Both…