K-Tech develops proprietary continuous separation technologies that solve complex separation, purification, and recovery challenges across the critical minerals and chemicals industries
The Bottleneck Isn’t Mining. It’s Refining.
Separation is the key.
K-Tech’s Core
Business Model
Technology evaluation, test programs, and engineering services: structured bench and pilot programs that prove K-Tech technology on the Client’s own feedstock before capital is committed, followed by process design through front-end engineering design (FEED), an Engineering Services Package to support the Client’s EPC contractor, and startup and post-startup support;
License its patented and proprietary technologies to chemical production companies for the recovery and purification of specific components that are present in their processing streams and which can have significant industrial value in their own right, typically with a license fee and ongoing royalties. In some cases these components represent contaminants to the major products that such companies produce, or are carried in their products or waste streams at no extra or even negative value. For larger opportunities, K-Tech forms joint ventures, co-development agreements, and equity partnerships, and launches focused ventures around validated technologies.
K-Tech is a technology developer and licensor, not an equipment vendor or a pure consultancy. We deliver a total process package: the technology, the know-how to run it, and the engineering to build it into the Client’s plant. This model lets Clients adopt new technology with limited risk, and it aligns our success with theirs: we earn the most when the Client’s plant performs.
Founded in 1987, K-Technologies, Inc.
(“K-Tech” or the “Company”) develops, patents, and licenses continuous separation technologies for the phosphate, energy, and critical minerals industries. K-Tech was built in Florida’s phosphate country, and for nearly four decades has designed continuous separation systems and put them to work in operating plants, developing more than 20 technologies across phosphate, potash, uranium, rare earths, and other minerals. Today the Company’s clients and partners span four continents, including leading producers of phosphate, fertilizers, rare earths, and specialty chemicals.
In particular, the Company has focused on its proprietary Continuous Ion Exchange (CIX), Continuous Ion Chromatography (CIC), and Continuous Impregnated Substrate (CIS) platforms as they apply to a variety of mineral, chemical, and environmental applications. Compared with conventional solvent extraction and batch processes, these continuous systems deliver consistent, high-purity results with lower chemical and water use, a smaller footprint, and no flammable solvent inventory, and can cut capital and operating costs by up to 50% compared with solvent extraction. K-Tech also has extensive knowhow and experience related to various solvent extraction processes and methods, as well as knowledge of a variety of separation techniques as adjuncts to its core methodologies, e.g. reverse osmosis, distillation, crystallization, and the like.
K-Tech works with Clients in a confidential manner and will never disclose any information to others without the request or approval of the Client. We feel that these confidential arrangements allow for maximum freedom of interface with the Client and permit total Client control as to the manner in which they may want to disclose information to others.
For partners and investors: K-Tech is a platform, not a single-product company. We find the separation problems producers will pay to solve, prove the solution in our lab and pilot plant, and commercialize it through licenses, partnerships, and focused ventures. Investors in K-Tech gain exposure to a recurring licensing business and to the upside of each technology we launch. We welcome conversations with strategic and financial partners who share our view of the critical minerals opportunity.