Discover the full insider trade history of Aqua Metals, Inc., a publicly traded company based in United States. Shares are quoted on US US, under the authority of SEC (Form 4). Operating in the Industry sector, Aqua Metals, Inc. has logged 22 insider filings. Market capitalisation: €13.8m. The latest transaction was disclosed on 4 May 2022 — Attribution. Among the most active insiders: Cotton Stephen. All data is openly available.
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Aqua Metals, Inc. (ticker: AQMS) is a United States-based company listed on the NASDAQ, focused on sustainable battery recycling and critical minerals refining. The company was originally built around its proprietary AquaRefining™ electrochemical process, first developed for lead battery recycling and later expanded toward lithium-ion battery materials and broader energy-storage supply-chain applications. Aqua Metals is now headquartered in Reno, Nevada, a strategically important location within the North American battery and critical-minerals ecosystem, although the company’s earlier development footprint included California. Its business model centers on recovering value from end-of-life batteries and producing battery-grade materials with a lower-carbon profile than conventional recycling and refining methods. Aqua Metals currently emphasizes a platform that can produce battery-grade lithium carbonate, nickel in multiple commercial forms, high-purity cobalt, and related intermediate materials. The company’s key competitive claim is that its electrochemical process can reduce the need for polluting furnaces and more chemically intensive legacy methods. In a supply chain increasingly shaped by decarbonization, domestic sourcing, and traceability requirements, that differentiation is strategically relevant. From a market-position standpoint, Aqua Metals remains an early-stage commercial technology company rather than a mature industrial recycler operating at large scale. It sits at the intersection of technology, infrastructure, and industrial materials, aiming to serve recyclers, cathode-material manufacturers, cell makers, and energy-storage integrators. Its strategic focus is primarily the United States, where policy support and supply-chain localization are creating demand for domestic battery-material capacity. Recent developments reinforce that narrative. During 2025 and early 2026, the company highlighted commercialization progress for AquaRefining™, advancement of lithium and nickel product development, pilot-scale work on LFP recycling, development of nickel carbonate, and a multi-year supply agreement with 6K Energy. Aqua Metals also completed a $13 million capital raise and, more recently, announced a term sheet to acquire Lion Energy, a move that could broaden its exposure to residential, commercial, and industrial energy-storage markets. For investors, AQMS is best understood as a transition-stage clean-tech and industrial materials company: technologically differentiated, strategically positioned, but still dependent on successful execution, capital access, and commercial scaling on the NASDAQ in the United States.