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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-050634"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABAT"
cik: "0001576873"
company_name: "AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co"
filed_at: "2024-12-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T01:59:16.078195+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ABTC awarded $144M DOE grant for second lithium-ion battery recycling facility

## Summary
- Total project value $368.5M; DOE cost share $143.6M, company share $224.9M.
- Second facility will process 100,000 tonnes/year of battery materials, five times first plant throughput.
- Grant commences January 1, 2025; funds obligated $123M of DOE share.
- Facility will output battery-grade Ni, Co, Mn, LiOH; BASF offtake agreement from Summer 2023.
- Expected to create 1,200 construction jobs and 300 operations jobs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-050634
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABAT
- cik: 0001576873
- company_name: AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co
- filed_at: 2024-12-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224050634/0001493152-24-050634-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224050634/form8-k.htm

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