THE SOLUTION
Automobiles are being manufactured at a rate 17,274,250 per year in the US alone.
Every one of them has a federally mandated catalytic converter that contains rare earth metals Since platinum, palladium, rhodium, copper, nickel, cerium, iron, and manganese. That makes converters very expensive and worth the time and expense to recycle.
It's done currently in a very ugly way with smelting factories spewing toxic chemicals in the air only to end up in our oceans and ultimately our drinking water.
The Solution
Alquimista has patent pending process that eliminates smelting all together and streamlines the supply chain to produce new catalytic converters.
It disrupts an industry that has roots back to the 1970’s and will change forever how vehicle emissions equipment are produced.
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The recycle process begins when an OEM installs the catalytic converters to every truck and car they sell. In 2019 alone, that number is projected to be 16.8 million units in the US. Most cars and trucks have at least one catalytic converter.
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Eventually, the converters will need to be replaced or its extracted when the vehicle reaches the end of its useful life. Its at that point that converters can be taken to collection facilities where modern chemistry is used to leach and extract metals from the units. It’s a completely safe and scalable process that doesn’t include coal, diesel and the demons of smelting
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The process produces nanoparticles that are loaded into our 3D printers. Using a digital file, we print the new catalytic converter element per manufacturer's specifications.
This technology eliminates unnecessary steps in the antiquated value chain of recycling. The result is exponentially cheaper cost, faster turnaround and with only a fraction of the environmental impact.
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The honeycomb structure and the casing is printed at the same time. Once units are printed, they can be directly installed on the cars' exhaust system.