About Us

Southwest Technologies (SWT) has state-of-the-art process development and advanced manufacturing capabilities, including inorganic chemical mixing and transfer equipment, polymer mixing and compounding equipment, and extrusion equipment in Southeast Georgia.

Who we are

Experts in Design & Fabrication

SWT has expertise designing, fabricating, and testing modular systems for continuous selective extraction applications for ion and solvent exchange processes and filtration equipment design experience.

Southwest Technologies LLC specializes in developing process technologies from a TRL of 2 to 9 and fast tracking NI 43- 101 for greenfield specialty mineral projects.

Southwest Technologies has been working with the US Federal Laboratories for three decades giving us access to the forefront of developing innovative process technology for the renewable energy and specialty chemical industry.

Our History

Lithium Engineering Expertise Begins

Founder R.Thomas Currin begins Lithium Processing Engineering career at Lithcoa in Bessemer City, NC

1981

1992

First Lithium Recycling Facility

Former Lithcoa Lithium Experts construct and begin recycling Lithium Chemicals from Industrial Byproducts at a new facility in Georgia.

Engineering Services

SWT Engineering Team begins providing Engineering Services to Fortune 500 Companies and the Federal Laboratories.

1994

2007

Lithium Resource Development Services

SWT provides its unique Lithium expertise to six early stage Lithium Projects.

Salar De Maricunga Lithium Project

SWT Principal responsible for the management of this resource development project. After project completion project was ranked 5th New Lithium Brine Project.

2012

2016

Federal Laboratories Outstanding Regional Partnership Award

SWT successfully implements a project to recover Colloidal Silica from Geothermal Brine at a Commercial Scale.

El Paso Brine Treatment Project

Partnered with CMC to obtain funding for the purchase, retrofit and start-up of a mothballed Water Treatment and Chemical Facility.

2018

2021

Battery Grade Lithium Carbonate Produced From Spent Lithium Ion Batteries

Battery Grade Lithium Carbonate is produced from spent Lithium Ion Batteries utilizing a process designed by SWT at its Lithium Development Center in Nahunta, Georgia.

Guiding Project Design and Management Principals

Stewardship

Manage a client’s funds as if it was our own hard earn money with full transparency.

Sustainability

A project should be designed to reach its full project life and must be profitable to be sustainable.

Triple Zero

Design processes with Zero Liquid Discharge, Zero Air Emissions and Zero Solid Waste. These metrics are achievable using established and innovative unit operations and decades of operations experience.

Ethical Land Use

For projects that involve agricultural products or biomass, the primary land use should be to feed people with secondary land use for these types of products.

“Our passion is to take a process concept from crawl to run!”

R. Thomas Currin

Founder