At a glance
| Booth | P5103 |
| Country | US |
| Website | www.electramet.com |
Company profile
ElectraMet designs and manufactures solutions for removing metal ions and hydrogen peroxide from microelectronics waste streams including test-wafer rinses, wet etch, plating, chemical-mechanical planarization, and various rinse waters. Its technology targets metal recovery and oxidant removal and achieves parts-per-billion purity for Cu, Mn, and Ag for high-tech manufacturing discharge or water-reuse applications. ElectraMet links its systems to sustainability by reducing heavy-load chemical hauling into facilities, reducing transport of sludge and concentrated waste out of facilities, recovering metals onsite for recycling to avoid mining, and eliminating landfill application. Its systems use automation and advanced analytics to reduce labor and operating costs while reducing ecological footprint and supporting compliance with strict environmental standards. ElectraMet presents its approach as cost-effective resource management through sustainable practices.
Exhibits
ElectraMet provides resource-recovery systems for semiconductor process water that recover valuable metals, remove hydrogen peroxide, and preserve acids and water for reuse. Its electrochemical systems combine selective recovery, oxidant abatement and process visibility for difficult semiconductor streams without creating metal-laden sludge, and ElectraMet matches the treatment platform to each stream's actual chemistry, which can vary by tool, chemistry, production schedule and intended downstream use. The systems control dissolved metals to meet discharge or reuse specifications without shifting metal into sludge, recover copper and other valuable metals in forms intended for reuse, recycling or offtake, destroy hydrogen peroxide without adding salts, enzymes or secondary treatment chemistry, and preserve value in acids and water so reuse pathways remain open. ElectraMet offers copper-recovery solutions for waste streams and etchant solutions to enable reuse and reduce total costs, allows users to select the target metal for removal and recovery, destroys hydrogen peroxide to enable acid reuse, and reduces oxidant load in industrial wastewater. ElectraLink collects data, communicates insights and notifies teams of process upsets; process-visibility functions also monitor treatment performance, detect production upsets and support action before water-quality risk reaches the fab. Copper-recovery treatment removes dissolved copper from concentrated or dilute streams while producing a recoverable metal product, peroxide abatement decomposes hydrogen peroxide to protect downstream equipment and enable qualified acid-reuse pathways, and acid-preservation treatment removes barriers that prevent useful high-strength chemistry from moving toward reuse or offtake. ElectraMet technologies can be combined according to stream conditions and treatment objectives rather than being limited to one skid. The PAC pre-treatment stage addresses residual peroxide before downstream treatment, handling, recovery or qualified reuse, while the CRC primary-treatment stage uses Alpha for copper removal and compliance around a defined discharge, reuse or downstream specification. The BRC post-treatment stage uses Omega to recover substantial copper mass from qualified concentrated streams where project economics matter, and the LAB validation pathway uses Iota for lab and benchtop validation of PAC, CRC, BRC or combined configurations before commercial design. ElectraMet offers a performance framework with flexible ownership, managed active technology and a defined performance guarantee. For characterized semiconductor streams with defined treatment targets and established platform fit, the standard deployment model uses customer-owned permanent infrastructure, feasibility and pilot validation as required, managed cartridges, ElectraLink and a performance guarantee. For qualified high-volume streams typically associated with $3M+ annual metal value, the Value Recovery Partnership can use a shared-value commercial model with $0 upfront system investment, ElectraMet ownership and operation of the system, and shared recovered value under the same performance framework. For novel or uncharacterized streams, Applied Recovery R&D provides analytical and electrochemical research through paid, co-development or grant-backed work, with qualified deployments entering the same performance framework. ElectraMet begins project definition with stream source, flow, variability, current disposition and required output, then characterizes targets, competing species, oxidants, solids, organics, pH and conductivity. Validation evaluates feasibility, selectivity, recovery form, operating window and pilot data as required, followed by commercial design, integration, monitoring, service and performance support. Its stream-value calculator is positioned as an initial economic screen; a high result can indicate a standard recovery project or possible Value Recovery Partnership, while technical qualification still depends on chemistry, recoverability and site conditions. PowerTech Water Inc. does business as ElectraMet.
Capabilities and products
- metal-ion removal from microelectronics waste streams
- hydrogen-peroxide removal from microelectronics waste streams
- ppb-level targeted Cu/Mn/Ag recovery
- copper recovery from semiconductor etchant streams
- hydrogen-peroxide destruction for acid reuse
- valuable-metal recovery from semiconductor process water
- real-time wastewater treatment monitoring and upset alerts
- acid and water preservation for semiconductor reuse