NEWS
Awards, scale-ups and what we're learning.
Updates from the ARM program — new funding, new feedstocks, and progress moving the platform toward commercial deployment.
2026-01-15
ARM receives ADECA award for waste-free extraction of critical minerals from electric arc furnace dust
A second consecutive Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund award extends the ARM platform to a new industrial waste stream: dust captured from domestic steelmaking.
READ →2025-06-10
From Waste to Wealth: unlocking Alabama’s coal ash potential
Decades of utility coal ash sit impounded across the state. An ADECA award funds ARM to determine how much of the critical minerals supply chain is already sitting in them.
READ →2024-09-03
ARM reaches demonstration-scale production in third consecutive EPRI phase
Bench in 2020, pilot in 2022, demonstration in 2024. The platform has now cleared three consecutive scale-up phases sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute.
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