Saltworks Technologies is a Canadian industrial water treatment and lithium refining company providing modular systems for DLE post-processing and brine-to-battery-grade-product conversion.
Saltworks Technologies, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, develops and delivers modular systems for industrial wastewater treatment and lithium refining. The company's lithium refining systems process brine and hard rock feedstocks to produce lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide at 99.9 percent purity. In the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program, Saltworks was recognized as one of Canada's fastest-growing technology companies. The company is a partner for Project Aurora, a multi-million-dollar collaboration with EMP Metals to deliver Canada's first lithium brine refinery in Saskatchewan.
In August 2025, Saltworks deployed two FusionRO plants, one to a lithium refiner concentrating lithium ahead of conversion. FusionRO, a low-salinity rejection reverse osmosis system, achieves brine concentrations of sodium chloride exceeding 220,000 milligrams per liter at 50 percent lower capex and opex than evaporators. Saltworks' product portfolio also includes the Gen-II Direct Lithium Extraction system, BrineRefine chemical softening, and SaltMaker evaporator-crystallizer systems. The company joins Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery & Critical Materials in Las Vegas in June 2026 as a sponsor.
