Aqua Metals to Host Corporate Update Conference Call on Tuesday, February 14th at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Management to Discuss Recent Partnership with Johnson Controls, Progress on the TRIC Facility, Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results

ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AQMS), which is commercializing AquaRefining™, a non-polluting electrochemical lead recycling technology, will host a conference call on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time (11:00 p.m. Eastern time) to discuss its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016, as well as provide a corporate update on the recently announced partnership with Johnson Controls and progress at the AquaRefinery in McCarran, Nevada at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC).

A press release detailing these results will be issued just prior to the call. Dr. Stephen Clarke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Thomas Murphy, Chief Financial Officer, will host the call followed by a question and answer session. To access the call, please use the following information:

Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m. Pacific time (11:00 p.m. Eastern time)
Dial-in: 1-888-740-6138
International Dial-in: 1-913-312-0653
Passcode: 9432739
Webcast: http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=122956

A telephone replay will be available approximately three hours after the call and will run through April 14, 2017 by dialing 1-844-512-2921 from the U.S., or 1-412-317-6671 from international locations, and entering replay pin number: 9432739.

The webcast will be available for replay for 60 days http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=122956 and on the investor relations section of the company's website at www.aquametals.com.

About Aqua Metals
Aqua Metals (NASDAQ:AQMS) is reinventing lead recycling with its patent-pending AquaRefining™ technology. Unlike smelting, AquaRefining is a room temperature, water-based process that is fundamentally non-polluting. Aqua Metals expects its modular AquaRefining systems to allow the lead-acid battery industry to simultaneously reduce negative environmental impacts and increase production to meet rapidly growing demand. Aqua Metals is based in Alameda, California and built its first recycling facility in Nevada’s Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center.

Safe Harbor 
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning Aqua Metals, Inc., the lead-acid battery recycling industry, the intended benefits of its agreements with Johnson Controls, 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 Aqua Metals’ 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 only recently commenced lead producing operations, thus subjecting the Company to all of the risks inherent in a pre-revenue start-up; (2) the uncertainties involved in any new commercial relationship; (3) risks related to Aqua Metals’ ability to raise sufficient capital, as and when needed, to develop and operate its recycling facilities; (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 prospectus supplement dated November 16, 2016  filed with the SEC on November 17, 2016. 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.

Media Relations:
Antenna
Brigit Carlson
201-465-8031
brigit@antennagroup.com
www.antennagroup.com

Investor Relations:
MZ North America
Greg Falesnik
949-385-6449
greg.falesnik@mzgroup.us
www.mzgroup.us

Released February 13, 2017