Aqua Metals has overcome the technical hurdles of scaling up to commercial production volumes and has begun production of lead ingots at its recycling facility in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Complex, in the US state of Nevada.
The company, which is based in Alameda, California, has made significant progress toward steady-state module utilization. It will now be able to send material to its customers for the production of batteries, its president said."We are now complementing our initial finished product offering of large lead blocks with smaller lead ingots, the preferred lead format for our battery manufacturer...