News, Announcements & Updates

Resource Recycling: Blue Whale scales up battery recycling in OK

Recycling Today: Blue Whale Materials embarks on expansion

Blue Whale Materials Marks Bartlesville Facility Expansion with Senator Lankford and Oklahoma State Leaders

RECYCLING TODAY: A Whale to watch (June 2025)

Seoul Economic Daily: Blue Whale and Korea will create a waste battery recycling ecosystem

USA Today: Breaking the “Missing Middle”: How Western Companies Are Re-Engineering America’s Critical-Materials Backbone (May 2025)

Blue Whale Materials Selected for $55 Million DOE Award Negotiation to Expand Bartlesville, OK Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Facility

BWM Pledges to Plant 1 Tree Per 1MT of Lithium-Ion Batteries Recycled with the National Forest Foundation on Earth Day 2024

Wall Street Journal: Salvaging Critical Minerals From Old Laptops and Phones Isn’t So Easy

Blue Whale Materials Commissions Baseline Plant in Bartlesville to Advance U.S. Battery Recycling Expansion

Blue Whale Materials Announces Strategic Partnership with Call2Recycle to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling in North America

Blue Whale Materials Awarded $55 Million DOE Grant to Expand Bartlesville, OK Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Facility

Archive

2024

Blue Whale Energy & Innovation releases report on the gaps between battery standards & battery technologies

BWM Named to TIME Magazine and Statista’s Inaugural List of America’s Top Greentech Companies of 2024 - March 5, 2024

BW Energy & Innovation: Leading Indiana Battery Prototyping and Testing Companies Collaborate to Expand Capabilities and Sustainability Solutions

2023

Blue Whale Materials Selects Bartlesville, OK for its First Commercial-Scale Li-Ion Battery Processing Facility - September 20, 2023

Blue Whale Materials Acquires Eclipse Energy - May 2, 2023

2022

Blue Whale Materials Expands Leadership Team - August 24, 2022

BWM Announces $80 Million Investment by Ara Partners to build Battery-recycling network - May 18, 2022

Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Market Revenue to Cross US $1,392.8 million by 2027: The Insight Partners - April 26, 2022

Lithium costs a lot of money—so why aren’t we recycling lithium batteries? - April 19, 2022

Lithium batteries' big unanswered question - January 5, 2022

2019

Blue Whale Materials CEO Robert Kang Testifies on Li-Ion Recycling - September 18, 2019

Blue Whale Materials CEO robert kang on the Battle for Rare Earths - May 28, 2019

Recycle Your Batteries, Before China Wins That Race, Too - April 16, 2019