Hydrometallurgical critical-metal recovery

Critical metals, recovered from waste — not mined.

We are a new venture recovering critical metals from two waste streams the world mostly discards — spent tantalum capacitors, and spent refinery and petrochemical catalysts — through a proprietary, low-hazard hydrometallurgical route, and returning them to the supply chain.

Supply feedstock or offtake See the process
Development-stage venture · proprietary hydrometallurgy · recovered-origin only
Recovered critical metals
73TaTantalum
42MoMolybdenum
23VVanadium
28NiNickel
27CoCobalt
From spent capacitors & refinery catalysts
Why this matters

Critical metals India imports — and throws away.

Tantalum, molybdenum and vanadium are all on India's list of 30 critical minerals, and all largely imported — yet all are recoverable from waste the country currently discards or exports. Tantalum sits in capacitors headed for e-waste; molybdenum and vanadium sit in spent refinery catalysts headed for hazardous-waste disposal.

Discarded electronic circuit boards — e-waste containing tantalum
of India's tantalum demand is met by imports
critical metals recovered across both streams
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hydrofluoric acid in our recovery route
oil refineries across India generate spent-catalyst feedstock
The process

Materials in. Refined metals out.

Both feedstreams run through the same core capability — a proprietary hydrometallurgical route, developed in-house, that turns mixed secondary material into high-purity, saleable metals.

Inputs
  • Spent tantalum capacitors
  • Spent refinery & petrochemical catalysts
  • Other metal-bearing secondaries
→
Proprietary
Hydrometallurgical route
Developed in-house · low-hazard, non-HF chemistry
→
Outputs
  • Tantalum oxide (Ta₂O₅)
  • Molybdenum & vanadium
  • Nickel & cobalt
Our approach

A focused critical-metal recovery venture.

Safer chemistry

Our route avoids the most hazardous reagents of conventional refining, changing the safety, permitting and effluent profile — and letting us operate where incumbent processes cannot.

Specialist team

Founded by hydrometallurgists — leaching, separation, purity control and process development are the core of what we do, not a side project.

Pilot-first

We prove each route at pilot scale before any scale-up, so recovery and purity are demonstrated — not assumed — ahead of commitment.

Our feedstreams

Two waste streams, one capability.

We recover critical metals from two secondary sources the industry largely discards — both playing to the same hydrometallurgical core, both recovered material only.

Spent tantalum capacitors

Tantalum stream

From spent tantalum capacitors, capacitors on populated boards, and capacitor-rich fractions sorted from electronic waste.

Recovers → Tantalum oxide (Ta₂O₅)
Spent refinery catalyst extrudate pellets

Spent-catalyst stream

From spent refinery and petrochemical catalysts — hydroprocessing and related spent catalysts diverted from hazardous-waste disposal.

Recovers → Molybdenum, vanadium, nickel & cobalt
Closing the loop

Where the recovered metals go.

Nothing we recover is downcycled. Refined, each metal re-enters the same high-value supply chains the waste came from — recovered material doing the job of freshly mined ore.

Tantalum end use — capacitors on a circuit board
Ta

Tantalum

Capacitors, aerospace superalloys, medical implants, carbide tooling and optical glass.

Molybdenum end use — rolled steel coil
Mo

Molybdenum

High-strength and stainless steel, and ferromolybdenum for alloying.

Vanadium end use — grid-scale vanadium-flow battery at a substation
V

Vanadium

Ferrovanadium for steel, and vanadium-flow batteries for grid storage.

Nickel end use — nickel-superalloy turbine blade
Ni

Nickel

High-temperature superalloys for turbines, stainless steel and EV battery cathodes.

Cobalt end use — lithium-ion battery cells
Co

Cobalt

EV battery cathodes and high-temperature superalloys.

Work with us

Supply, offtake, or invest.

We're opening conversations with three groups. Tell us which you are.

01
Feedstock suppliersE-waste and electronics recyclers with spent tantalum capacitors, and refineries and petrochemical plants with spent catalyst to divert from disposal.
02
OfftakersBuyers of recovered tantalum, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel and cobalt seeking a traceable, recovered-origin source.
03
Investors & partnersBackers of critical-mineral recovery and circular-economy processing.
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