ChemFinity Technologies is a Brooklyn company spun out of materials-chemistry research at UC Berkeley, where its co-founders developed the foundation for its work. It now helps miners, recyclers, and refiners recover critical minerals from difficult feedstocks using selective separation technology, with its initial focus on precious metals.
Blue Forge, IncBorn from a research partnership between professors at UC Riverside and The City College of New York, New York-based Blue Forge develops a chemical process for recycling lithium-ion batteries into high-value materials. Its aluminometallurgy approach avoids acidic leaching and black mass, using solvent recovery and commodity reagents in a process protected by pending patents.
Sabin Metal CorporationFounded in 1945, Sabin Metal Corporation is a family-led precious metals recycler and refiner that processes industrial byproducts and scrap to recover and refine metals. The company operates three metal-processing facilities and is known for its precious-metal recovery work, including its proprietary Pyro-Re process for rhenium recovery.SCOTTSVILLE, NY
Colonial Metals, IncWith four decades in the precious-metal chemical market, Colonial Metals, Inc. makes and supplies platinum-group and other precious-metal chemicals from its Maryland headquarters. The privately held company pairs custom synthesis and specialized packaging with analytical services, including support for high-purity semiconductor and energetic-beam applications. It also operates the only on-site full-service ruthenium refinery in the Americas and provides large-scale rhenium refining.ELKTON, MD
Prime Materials Recovery IncFormed in 2002 from the assets of its predecessor, Schilberg Integrated Metals Corporation, Prime Materials Recovery processes and brokers secondary non-ferrous metals and recovers reusable materials from scrap. Headquartered in East Hartford, Connecticut, the company operates processing facilities in four states and reports processing and brokering more than 35 million pounds of non-ferrous metals each month. Its proprietary processes also recover plastic products for reuse.CANASTOTA, NY