Aqua Metals to Host Corporate Update Webinar on Monday, March 7th at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time

ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AQMS) ("Aqua Metals" or the "Company"), which is commercializing a non-pollutive electrochemical lead recycling technology called AquaRefining™, will host a conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time (11:30 a.m. Eastern time) on Monday, March 7, 2016.

Management will be presenting an overview of the business model, growth initiatives and key milestones, along with a brief review of the financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2015. The call will be accompanied by a presentation which can be accessed via the webcast. A press release detailing these results will be issued just prior to the call.

Dr. Stephen Clarke, Chairman and CEO, and Thomas Murphy, Chief Financial Officer, will host the call followed by a question and answer session.

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
Time: 8:30 a.m. Pacific time (11:30 a.m. Eastern time)
Dial-in: 1-888-572-7033
Toll/International Dial-in: 1-719-325-2454
Webcast: http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=118471

A telephone replay will be available approximately two hours after the call and will run through April 7, 2016, by dialing 1-877-870-5176 from the U.S., or 1-858-384-5517 from international locations, and entering Replay Pin Number: 2407127.

The webcast will be available for replay for 60 days at http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=118471 and on the investor relations section of the company's website at www.aquametals.com.

About Aqua Metals
Aqua Metals is reinventing lead recycling with its patented AquaRefining technology. Unlike smelting, AquaRefining is a modular, room temperature, water-based process that is fundamentally non-polluting. These modular systems allow the lead acid battery industry to simultaneously improve environmental impact and scale production to meet demand. Aqua Metals is based in Alameda, California, and is building its first recycling facility in Nevada’s Tahoe Reno Industrial Complex. To learn more, please visit www.aquametals.com

Safe Harbor
This letter contains forward-looking statements concerning Aqua Metals, Inc., including statements regarding the prospects for the lead acid battery recycling industry, the future of lead acid battery recycling via traditional smelters, the Company's development of its commercial lead acid battery recycling facilities and the quality, efficiency and profitability of the Company's proposed lead acid battery recycling operations. Those forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Among those factors are: (1) the fact that Company has not yet commenced revenue producing operations or developed its initial commercial recycling facility, thus subjecting the Company to all of the risks inherent in a pre-revenue start-up; (2) risks related to Aqua Metals' ability to raise sufficient capital, as and when needed, to expand the lead output at its initial facility from 80 tonnes to 160 tonnes per day and develop and operate additional its recycling facilities; (3) risks that Aqua Metals may be unable to reach positive cash flow from operations with its cash on hand; (4) changes in the federal, state and foreign laws regulating the recycling of lead acid batteries; (5) the Company's ability to protect its proprietary technology, trade secrets and know-how and (6) those other risks disclosed in the section "Risk Factors" included in the final prospectus filed by Aqua Metals with the SEC on July 31, 2015. Aqua Metals cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update or revise such statements to reflect new circumstances or unanticipated events as they occur.

Aqua Metals Media Relations:
Antenna 
Sharon Golubchik
Main: 415-977-1942
aquametals@antennagroup.com

Aqua Metals Investor Relations:
MZ North America
Greg Falesnik
Senior Vice President
Main: 949-385-6449
greg.falesnik@mzgroup.us 
www.mzgroup.us

Released February 25, 2016