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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-010716"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T08:10:06.948719+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals reports 2025 milestones: technology expansion, partnerships, $17.1M raised, cash $10.8M

## Summary
- Raised $17.1M in new funding, strengthened balance sheet; cash $10.8M at Dec 31, 2025; no long-term debt.
- Advanced ARC commercial facility design (10k-60k metric tons/yr capacity); targeting capital-efficient partnerships.
- Signed supply deal with 6K Energy, LOI with Westwin Elements, MOUs with Impossible Metals and MOBY Robotics.
- Produced battery-grade lithium carbonate with <30 ppm fluorine; pilot-scale LFP recycling demonstrated.
- Potential Lion Energy transaction could expand into energy storage and equity in American Battery Factory.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-010716
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774926010716/0001437749-26-010716-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774926010716/aqms20250930_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  Aqua Metals, Inc. reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.
  - Period: the year ended December 31, 2025
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Aqua Metals, Inc. issued a press release announcing its results for the year ended December 31, 2025. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774926010716/0001437749-26-010716-index.htm

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