Green recycling start-up Aqua Metals, Inc. has established its new global headquarters in Alameda, California,US.
The facility will include engineering and design laboratories, offices and an assembly line for AquaRefining modules, due to start production in Q4 of 2015.
At full production, the Alameda facility will have the capacity to manufacture up to 160 modules per year – the equivalent to ten AquaRefineries the size of its TRIC facility.
It comes just weeks after the company broke ground on its electrochemical AquaRefining™ lead recycling plant on Nevada’s Tahoe Reno industrial Centre.
The company claims the facility will be more efficient, and produce cheaper, purer lead by avoiding conventional smelting methods and offering a ‘greener’ alternative to the recycling industry. It could be fully operational by the first quarter of 2016.
Although staying tight lipped about the details, we know the process will use electrowinning, produces no toxic waste (slag, lead dust or sulfur dioxide) and will use the electrochemical modules being produced at its new assembly line.
