Resumen de Supercharging lithium extraction through custom chemistry

Industrial Minerals

• “For us, customization is essential,” ArrMaz chief executive officer Dave Keselica, tell Jo Isenberg-O’Loughlin, as his company spearheads a molecule-by-molecule drive to recover every bit of lithium the company’s customers pull out of the ground. A chemical engineer with a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the ceo of Mulberry, Florida-based ArrMaz – a US-headquartered global producer of specialty chemicals for the mining, fertilizer, phosphate, industrial ammonium nitrate, asphalt, and oil and gas industries – Keselica is still playing with fire. [...]data and analytics company GlobalData forecast in a recent report that demand for the lithium required to produce lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs will more than double from 26.7 kilotons in 2018 to 58.3 kilotons in 2022. [...]Keselica points to an increasingly urgent need to look for opportunities to re-use these critical materials.