Season 9

Georg Fischer, the Swiss flow-solutions group founded in 1802, stays innovative by acquiring and backing younger companies, completing 11 acquisitions and startup stakes across its history including a minority position in the Oxford Flow startup. The SIX Swiss Exchange listed firm runs piping, casting, and machining divisions and treats startup collaboration as core strategy.

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with 🎙️ Andreas Müller – CEO at GF

💧 GF is a sustainability and innovation leader aiming to provide superior customer value across three Divisions enabling the safe transport of liquids and gases, lightweight casting components, and high-precision manufacturing technologies.

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Ready for an epic journey? Strap in as we rock’n roll from deep-down brine to powering our future through lithium! We’re plunging into the buzz around Direct Lithium Extraction and companies like Standard Lithium who are making magic happen. Water and lithium – it’s a wild ride, let’s follow our guide this week:

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with 🎙️ Andy Robinson – President and COO of Standard Lithium

💧 Standard Lithium coins itself America’s 21st century Lithium Company. They’re expected to become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado

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Humans are the third pillar of sustainability, and for too long, they’ve been left out of the equation of sustainable lithium production. So it’s about time to integrate all shareholders and first nations in particular in the lithium revolution discussion. How? Let’s explore:

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with 🎙️ Christopher Brown – CEO at Helios Corporation

💧 Helios acknowledges that the World’s current trajectory is unsustainable and focuses its expertise in Energy, Power, Biomass, Capital Markets, and the latest environmental technology to achieve more, using less.

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Aquatech International is a family-owned industrial water company founded in 1981 that grows by buying capabilities rather than building them, completing 6 acquisitions across desalination, brine recovery, and direct lithium extraction. Chemical major Ecolab held a 33% minority stake from 2016 until the founding Sharma family bought it back to stay private.

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with 🎙️ Devesh Sharma – CEO at Aquatech

💧 Aquatech helps the world’s most recognized companies solve important water challenges such as lithium refining, desalination or food and beverage.

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Evove precision-engineers graphene-oxide coated membranes and 3D-printed spacer plates that cut pressure drop 10 to 20 percent and erase the dead zones where foulants collect, while lifting membrane flux 20 to 50 percent. The deployment-grade coatings reject over 98 percent of salt in reverse osmosis, and the UK firm raised a US$6.9M Series A in 2023 to scale lithium-brine separation.

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with 🎙️ Chris Wyres – CEO at Evove

💧 Evove aims to take membranes to the next level, overcoming the inherent flaws in conventional architectures, hence transforming membranes, transforming separation, and filtration.

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