Welcome to Igniting American Manufacturing, where brilliant minds from all around the country sit down to discuss the happenings of America’s manufacturing industry and what can be done to keep it growing. On today’s segment, our host Rory Francis Comiskey talks with Kris Gustafson of American Battery Technology Company. American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) is an integrated critical battery materials company that is commercializing its technologies for both primary lithium refining and lithium-ion battery recycling. Committed to a circular supply chain for battery metals, ABTC works to continually innovate and master new battery metals technologies that power a global transition to electrification and the future of sustainable energy. Proving out and validating next generation recycling and refining technologies that enable the production of critical materials on a cost competitive basis with foreign sources while maintaining environmentally friendly processes.