RENO,
Nev., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- American
Battery Technology Company (ABTC) (NASDAQ: ABAT), an
integrated critical battery materials company that is
commercializing its technologies for both primary battery minerals
manufacturing and secondary minerals lithium-ion battery recycling,
will participate in the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Summit
in San Francisco from Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
ABTC CEO Ryan Melsert to
participate on the expert panel titled, "Can Battery Recycling
Solve Supply Chain Challenges'' with industry leaders and
moderated by BloombergNEF's Energy Storage Associate Andy Leach.
The panel will discuss perspectives on the domestic scaling of
battery recycling capacity and some of the biggest challenges that
lie ahead.
Since 2008, the BNEF Summit has been convening leaders in
energy, industry, transport, technology, finance, and government
with the goal of generating ideas, delivering insight, and making
the connections that help them formulate successful strategies,
capitalize on technological change and shape a cleaner, more
competitive future.
The ABTC team will be onsite to meet with representatives from
industry leaders and partners, and Melsert will be joined at the
conference by ABTC director of corporate development and strategy,
Tony DiCenso, and ABTC director of
investor relations Anthony
Young.
For more information about this event, visit: BNEF Summit
2024.
About American Battery Technology Company
American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), headquartered in
Reno, Nevada, has pioneered
first-of-kind technologies to unlock domestically manufactured and
recycled battery metals critically needed to help meet the
significant demand from the electric vehicle, stationary storage,
and consumer electronics industries. Committed to a circular supply
chain for battery metals, ABTC works to continually innovate
and master new battery metals technologies that power a global
transition to electrification and the future of sustainable
energy.
About Ryan Melsert
Ryan Melsert brings over twenty
years of multidisciplinary expertise to his positions as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the
American Battery Technology Company (ABTC). He has
accelerated the company's rollout to commercializing technologies
for its three business units, including lithium-ion battery
recycling, the developing of lithium bearing resources, and the
design and construction of lithium hydroxide refineries.
Melsert previously served as R&D Manager for Tesla's
Gigafactory Battery Materials Processing group. He founded and led
a cross-functional team of mechanical and chemical engineers who
implemented first-principles design to develop novel first-of-kind
systems for the extraction, purification, and synthesis of
precursor and active battery materials. This development scope
included the fundamental conceptual design, rigorous thermodynamic
and process modeling, design and fabrication of bench-scale
prototypes, construction and operation of integrated pilot systems,
and implementation of commercial scale systems for the processing
of battery materials.
He has a variety of publications and patents in his name and has
served as the Principal Investigator for several US DOE supported
renewable energy projects, including 4 grants while at ABTC.
Melsert has also won innovation competitions, including the BASF
Circularity Challenge in 2019 hosted to identify the most promising
lithium-ion battery recycling technologies in the world. He was
invited to join President Joe Biden
and U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer
Granholm in awarding ABTC with a portion of the $2.8 billion in grants from the U.S. Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law for projects to expand U.S. manufacturing of
batteries for electric vehicles and domestic mineral
production.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other
than statements of historical fact, are "forward-looking
statements." Although the American Battery Technology Company's
(the "Company") management believes that such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee that such
expectations are, or will be, correct. These forward-looking
statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could
cause the Company's future results to differ materially from those
anticipated. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among
others, risks and uncertainties related to the Company's ability to
continue as a going concern; interpretations or reinterpretations
of geologic information, unfavorable exploration results, inability
to obtain permits required for future exploration, development or
production, general economic conditions and conditions affecting
the industries in which the Company operates; the uncertainty of
regulatory requirements and approvals; fluctuating mineral and
commodity prices, final investment approval and the ability to
obtain necessary financing on acceptable terms or at all.
Additional information regarding the factors that may cause actual
results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements
is available in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended June 30, 2023. The
Company assumes no obligation to update any of the information
contained or referenced in this press release.
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