Articles from Ascend Elements

Ascend Elements, the global leader in circular battery materials, today announced that TDK Ventures Inc. has been named its 2025 Partner of the Year. The recognition highlights the company’s broad and sustained contributions to Ascend Elements’ strategic, commercial, and operational progress during a pivotal year for the company. The award reflects not only past contributions, but also alignment on a shared vision for the future of local critical mineral refining and energy materials.

Ascend Elements, the global leader in circular battery materials, today announced a series of year-end milestones that cap a transformational 2025 and position the company for accelerated growth through 2026 and beyond. Ascend Elements stands alone as the proven, US- and EU-based answer to delivering circularity and security from core battery material recycling to engineered-component production at scale, as awareness rises of the vulnerabilities of non-domestic, high-emissions supply chains.

Ascend Elements, a leader in sustainable engineered battery materials and lithium‑ion recycling, today announces a multi‑year offtake agreement for lithium carbonate with Trafigura, a market leader in the global commodities industry. The agreement totals 15,000 metric tons (15 kilotons) to be delivered between 2027 and 2031.

Company Plans to Produce More than 15 Kilotons of Recycled Lithium Carbonate Annually in the United States and Europe by 2027