Humble Roots
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Catalytic Innovations was founded in 2009. It began with the discovery of a new technology to extract and purify zinc from secondary materials to produce high purity micronutrient fertilizers. Typical zinc secondaries include discarded zinc paste from the manufacture of alkaline batteries, spent zinc shot blast, galvanizer drosses, crude zinc oxides recovered from steel melting operations, and plasma over-sprays from zinc coating processes.
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First home of Catalytic Innovations
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"Thank God for another great day in the Ozarks" - Dr. Scott Volner
Our new facility
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This same technology was then adapted to extract and separate the zinc and manganese from alkaline batteries into their high purity forms. The ability to divert thousands of tons of spent alkaline batteries from landfills vastly improves the sustainability of this battery type. The pure zinc and manganese recovered from this process can be used back into the creation of new batteries or as a replacement for wherever virgin zinc or manganese is required.
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These technologies have led us to continue to find ways to recycle and reuse secondary materials from other industries as well. In 2022 we built a facility to extract molybdenum, nickel, and cobalt from roasted hydrotreater catalysts. These recovered metals can now be reused into catalyst manufacturing, or given new life in steel manufacturing, battery production, and agricultural fertilizer.
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Catalytic Innovations Lab
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Dr. Hull
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Our current R&D projects include the recycling of lithium primary batteries, nickel tungsten hydro-processing catalyst, steam reforming catalyst, brass mill fume, and custom agricultural formulations.
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