September 27, 2024: Former Ecobat chief commercial officer Thea Soule has joined the advisory board of directors of Dallas-based lithium battery recycler Momentum Technologies.

Momentum announced the appointment on September 24, saying Soule would draw on her industry knowledge to help guide and shape the future of the company.

Soule, who joined Ecobat in 2020, led the group’s lithium ion recycling division and expanded its operations across the US, UK and Germany, before announcing in August 2023 that she had left the group.

Momentum has developed what it described as modular, scalable battery recycling technology in conjunction with the US Department of Energy, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Halliburton Labs.

The company claims its membrane solvent extraction tech has the ability to extract high-purity metals from battery waste at significantly lower operating and capital costs than existing recycling technologies.