Florida Multi-Metal Critical Mineral Refinery
The Quickest and Only Clean Path to US Sourced Refined Critical Minerals
Precision Periodic's Multi-Scale Refinery is the first of its kind — a modular, rapidly deployable, zero-waste, little to no permitting required facility that converts Class 2 nickel mixed hydroxide precipitates (MHP) into battery-grade Class 1 nickel sulfate, plus refines the other contained elements, cobalt and manganese, also into high-purity sulfates.
America’s Clean Process Refinery
The refinery sits inside a standard industrial building rather than a purpose-built mega-facility — eliminating the multi-year construction timelines and capital intensity that have kept the United States dependent on foreign refining for decades. Feedstock is sourced from globally diversified Class 2 nickel suppliers.
At full capacity, Precision Periodic's first commercial refinery is targeted to produce 10,000 tons per year of contained nickel as battery-grade nickel sulfate — alongside meaningful volumes of refined cobalt and manganese sulfate — supplying U.S. manufacturers, and Department of Defense supply chains with domestically refined critical minerals for the first time.
Not Years but Months
Refineries take years of planning and hundreds of millions of dollars of capital expenditures. Our proprietary process and technology changes all of that.
From Demo Skid to Commercial Scale
The refining demo skid isn't a lab curiosity — it's a working proof of the same chemistry that scales to commercial production. Each skid processes one ton per day of contained nickel from nickel MHP feedstock. Scaling to 10,000 tons per year of contained nickel is a matter of replicating proven modular units, not re-engineering an unproven process at massive scale — which is exactly why this can move in months, not years.
CAPEX 90% lower - OPEX 70% lower: than traditional processes such as solvent extraction or carbonyl (vapor-phase pyrometallurgical).
One Ton Per Day Increments: Our modular scalable refining skid produces one ton a day of battery-grade nickel which is 3.3 tons of nickel MHP in and 4.4 tons of crystallized nickel sulfate hexahydrate out.
Refining Demo Skid
Why Florida
Locating the refinery in Florida puts it within easy reach of major ports (Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami) for receiving Class 2 nickel feedstock and shipping finished sulfates to battery and alloy manufacturers across the Southeast. Florida's industrial zoning and permitting environment also align well with a facility designed to operate inside a standard industrial building rather than requiring a purpose-built mega-site.
Built for U.S. Supply Chains
Output from this facility is designed to flow directly into the supply chains that need it most: battery manufacturers building U.S.-based EV and energy storage cells, stainless steel and specialty alloy producers, and Department of War contractors who require domestically sourced, traceable critical minerals. By keeping the entire process — from feedstock to finished sulfate — on U.S. soil, the refinery closes a gap that has left American manufacturers dependent on foreign-controlled processing for decades.
Nickel: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Nickel Forecast, subscription), IRENA, IEA Critical Minerals reports, or the EU JRC/Roskill Class 1 nickel study.
Cobalt: IEA's Global EV Outlook / Critical Minerals Outlook (free annual reports), Benchmark Cobalt Forecast, Cobalt Institute.
Manganese: Fastmarkets, Adamas Intelligence (EV battery capacity/material tracking), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (manganese), and the EU JRC/Roskill studies.