Aquatech – PEARL Technology Platform Enables 20% Reduction in Cost of Lithium Production
CANONSBURG, Pa., June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As lithium developers face increasing pressure to reduce capital intensity, bring down operating costs, and deliver projects with greater certainty, Aquatech today announced a step-change for the lithium industry, addressing the structural constraints limiting large-scale lithium deployment.
Aquatech’s PEARL™ technology platform is a proven end-to-end approach to lithium processing, combining full flowsheet optimization, modular delivery, and lifecycle performance management. PEARL™ enables a >20% reduction in total capital and operating costs relative to conventional pathways, while providing cost and schedule certainty and long-term operational reliability, and replaces fragmented, multi-vendor delivery models with a unified approach. The platform reduces interface risk, improves execution certainty, and establishes a repeatable pathway to scale.
With over 100,000 tons per year of lithium capacity under execution across the Americas, Aquatech continues to support resource owners in transitioning to a standardized, scalable delivery model that reduces risk and improves capital efficiency.
Venkee Sharma, Executive Chairman at Aquatech, said:
After listening to our customers and other stakeholders, it was clear to us that developers and resource owners need a toolkit to get from brine to battery-grade lithium.
”We created the PEARL platform to address the core challenges of high cost, technology performance risk, and cost and schedule certainty.We believe PEARL is a game changer for accelerating lithium production”
At the core of the PEARL platform is a modular architecture that spans the full project lifecycle consisting of five core services:
- PEARL™ Origin: Resource treatability assessment to accelerate investment-grade feasibility.
- PEARL™ Core: A fully integrated lithium processing flowsheet including critical equipment and DLE media, backed by license and guarantees.
- PEARL™ Train: Factory-manufactured lithium processing modules, supporting compressed project schedules and reducing installation cost.
- PEARL™ Pure: Continuous operational support, including media, membranes, and consumables supply supporting product purity and lithium recovery over the life of the facility.
- PEARL™ Vision: Continuous operational intelligence utilizing advanced sensing & AI-based digital twins to improve recovery, uptime, and lifecycle efficiency.
By removing the barriers of high project cost and technology performance risk, PEARL™ provides resource owners and developers with a clear pathway to delivering battery-grade lithium from any brine resource.
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