Aquatech’s Executive Chairman, Venkee Sharma, recently joined Joe Lowry on The Global Lithium Podcast to discuss Aquatech’s role in the evolving lithium industry.
During the conversation, Venkee highlighted Aquatech’s decade-long transition into lithium and critical minerals, applying its proven water treatment technologies and process expertise to support customers across the entire lithium flowsheet.
Today, Aquatech has 100,000 tons of lithium projects in execution, construction, or operation and continues to expand its capabilities in the sector, including the recent acquisition of Koch’s Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) business.
Sharma explains, “We have about a hundred thousand tons of lithium either in execution, construction or operation at this point. And it's a thrill over the last decade as we made the transition into lithium and critical minerals for Aquatech to be able to use its technologies and apply many of them.”
At Aquatech, we understand the challenges impacting the industry today. Aquatech is helping to address key bottlenecks through our PEARL™platform, which provides a complete approach across the lithium flowsheet.
Sharma shared, “We have a critical minerals business that has its own business development, its own PEARL™ platform, and process development around the full flowsheet. No matter which customer or customer group we're talking about, CapEx today is the bottleneck.”
Listen to the full podcast here!
With over 100,000 tons per year of lithium and critical minerals processing capacity under execution globally, Aquatech's commitment to technology leadership and performance excellence is powering the electrification of the global economy. Our PEARL™ technology licensing platform powers battery-grade lithium production through direct lithium extraction, refining and purification, process design, modular execution, and digital optimization to create a comprehensive processing solution.
Acting as a single accountable partner, Aquatech enables resource owners to deliver battery-grade lithium with confidence, while bringing down total installation cost, process risk, and time to market. Aquatech brings over 45 years of experience solving complex water and process challenges to enable reliable delivery for critical minerals and lithium processing.
As lithium developers face increasing pressure to reduce capital intensity, bring down operating costs, and deliver projects with greater certainty, Aquatech today announced a step-change for the lithium industry, addressing the structural constraints limiting large-scale lithium deployment.
Aquatech will supply the largest direct lithium extraction (DLE) unit ever deployed in North America for Prairie Lithium's 4.6 MT LCE resource base in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Aquatech has acquired Koch Technology Solutions' (KTS) direct lithium extraction (DLE) business, integrating the Li-Pro™ Lithium Selective Sorption (LSS) technology and extensive Li-Pro IP portfolio into the PEARL™ process technology platform.