with ?️ Robert Mintak - CEO of Standard Lithium
? Standard Lithium coins itself America's 21st century Lithium Company. They're expected to become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado

What we covered:

5️⃣ How Standard Lithium built a plan to grow to commercial direct lithium extraction (DLE) scale in five years
? How you can't take lithium extraction processes off-the-shelf and how you can't copy-paste what works on a lab scale for a commercial scale
? How there's an overlooked part of DLE: managing high brine volumes and flows
? How Standard Lithium "surprised" Lanxess with a lithium add-on to their bromine business
? How you need to know what you know but also know when to team up and get support to take your project off the ground
? How Standard Lithium used a simple trick most companies wouldn't dare to apply: paying their partner to kick things off
?️ How the Lanxess project will serve as a Blueprint for replication across Arkansas' Smackover formation
⚔️ How there's no silver-bullet universal lithium extraction process and how you need to tailor it to your regional parameters
⚡ How to be future-proof and keep all options open to the evolutions in battery technology
? Why El Dorado, Arkansas is the absolute best place to build a lithium chemical business in North America
? How having a positive impact and walking the talk is key to be serious about supporting the energy transition and the EV Revolution
? Fluid handling as a boring but necessary evil, developing win-win agreements, relationships to Koch Engineering and Lanxess, California and further Arkansas projects... and much more!

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? Come say hi to Robert on Linkedin 
? Check Standard Lithium's website 
➡️ Check out the entire article on Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success  
➡️ Reach out to me: antoine@dww.show 

More episodes in this Series:
1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!)
2 - The Shocking Requirements of Spodumene Processing (and other Lithium 101 stories)