Aqua Metals is the only company that has produced a commercially proven sustainable, closed-loop metal recycling process that is capable of producing the world’s purest metals. Our Innovation Center is developing the cleanest metals recycling technologies that are better for the environment, economically competitive and safe for workers. Aqua Metals is developing cleaner and safer metals recycling through innovation. Our Innovation Center is expanding the development of breakthrough technologies for sustainable metal recycling that can deliver high-value raw materials back into the manufacturing supply chain while reducing emissions and toxic byproducts and creating safer work environments. Aqua Metals has been awarded 68 patents with 49 pending patents for our AquaRefining process and we have filed a provisional patent for recovering high-value metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries.