From leach liquor to recovered metal

Lithium is the hardest of the battery metals to isolate cleanly. Our diketone-based extractants pull lithium out of alkaline, high-sodium streams — salt-lake brines and recycled battery leachates alike — while leaving the sodium behind.

The black mass from a shredded battery is a rich but messy feedstock. Our extractants first co-extract the nickel–cobalt–manganese family, then split cobalt from nickel with high selectivity — the two steps that turn battery waste back into battery-grade precursor.

Beyond the battery metals, modern industry depends on a long tail of scarce elements — scandium, gallium, indium and rare earths. Our neutral and amide-type extractants separate these high-value metals from complex, low-concentration feeds.

Every refinery and plant leaves metals in its wastewater. Our chelating extraction-precipitants pull transition and heavy metals out of that stream — protecting the environment and turning a liability into a recovered resource.

Copper remains the world's largest solvent-extraction market, and our aldoxime/ketoxime extractants cover the full range of leach conditions — from heap leaching to high-purity electrowinning feed.