This interview with Michael O'Kronley, CEO of Ascend Elements, discusses innovative technology, challenges, and collaborations driving Ascend Elements' mission to create a closed-loop source of battery materials, reducing the need for mining and advancing a more eco-friendly future for electric vehicles.
Ascend Elements, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company and Koura, an Orbia business and one of the world’s largest producers of fluoroproducts and technologies, launched a proprietary process technology yielding battery-grade graphite material from spent lithium-ion batteries. Orbia is serving as a development partner to Ascend.