Electrochem Technologies & Materials Inc.

Electrochem Technologies & Materials Inc. is a chemical producer and technology developer that invents, patents, scales-up, and commercializes proprietary chemical, electrochemical, and metallurgical processes and technologies that are innovative and sustainable. The company is a registered Canadian publisher. The company targets metallurgical and chemical industries with a particular focus on the production of vanadium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, cesium, and rare earths chemicals and the recycling of mining residues, end-of-life materials, by-products, and industrial effluents. The company facilities allow testing novel chemical, electrochemical and metallurgical processes. Projects range from prototype-scale to pilot plant or demonstration units at client locations. Electrochemisry | Hydrometallurgy | Pyrometallurgy | Electrometallurgy | Molten Salts Patented processes and technologies: • The FerWIN® process a zero-carbon iron making technology for electrowinning iron and recycling sulfuric acid from iron sulfates. • The TANTALOX™ process for the extraction of niobium and tantalum from ores and concentrates. • The chemical recycling of rare earths from spent fluorescent lamps. • The VanadiumCorp-Electrochem Process Technology (VEPT) for recovering vanadium, titanium and iron from vanadiferous titano-magnetite (VTM). Patent sold in 2020 but retaining exclusive testing rights and 3% royalties for every plant. • The VANALYTE® process for the electrochemical production of vanadium electrolytes. • The high temperature production of cesium tungstate. Commercial activities: • The manufacture of industrial electrodes such as mixed metals oxides “MMO” anodes • The fabrication of prototype and pilot electrolyzers. • The production of vanadium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium and cesium chemicals. • The production of vanadium electrolytes: Vanalyte® and SuperVanalyte®. • Publications of key professional books and monographs.