Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ:ELBM) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 5, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Joe Racanelli - Vice President, Investor Relations

Trent Mell - Chief Executive Officer

Craig Cunningham - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Trevisiol - Vice President, Project Development

Conference Call Participants

Heiko Ihle - H.C. Wainwright

Kate Nakagawa - Cantor Fitzgerald

Gordon Lawson - Paradigm Capital

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Electra Fourth Quarter and Year End 2022 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference over to Joe Racanelli, Vice President, Investor Relations with Electra. Please go ahead.

Joe Racanelli

Thank you, Ariel, and good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. As you know, we filed our Q4 and year-end results last night, and we have all our materials available both on our website as well as SEDAR. There were a couple of developments beyond our control that took place and that resulted in a couple of days delay, but we are moving forward.

With me today is Trent Mell, our CEO; our CFO, Craig Cunningham; as well as Mark Trevisiol, who is at the refinery site this morning and will provide an update both with the status of our construction project in our black mass.

We will be following a presentation this morning that is available from our website. I encourage you to follow along. At the end of our management discussion, we will have a Q&A and we will open up those questions to the research analysts who do cover us for investors who do have specific questions, please reach out, and we will be able to answer them going forward. So thank you.

And I will hand it over to Trent for his opening remarks.

Trent Mell

Thanks, Joe. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us today. Before we go to analysts and open it up for calls, we are going to give you just a quick overview of development into Q4 and close off by sharing some of our near-term priorities and what our focus is going to be into Q1 and 2023 and beyond.

Fourth quarter for Electra was particularly busy for us. And I guess the highlight for me, capping off the year with the commencement of our black mass trial just before Christmas kind of step one of our proof partner and build strategy, and I think it's paying off. And when I talk about the black mass trial for us, what that means is using our hydrometallurgical refinery and the process we've developed over the last two years to take shredded battery black mass as we call it and refined it into its constituent elements, and Mark will give you an update on that.