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System supports lithium extraction, sample production, and operating-team training while Company prepares first 1,000 tpa commercial-scale plant
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners Inc. (TSXV: LIB | OTCQB: VLTLF | FSE: I2D) (“LibertyStream” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has commissioned its fully automated Gen 6 extraction system at Freedom Launchpad, the Company’s training and customer-sample production platform at its first deployment site.
The process is not being changed for scale-up. The Company expects the commercial-scale design to use the same core process architecture, with larger carousels holding additional extraction modules to support increased throughput.
Share The Gen 6 system is operating as expected and is now supporting lithium extraction and lithium carbonate production at the site. The system is designed around a 5,000 barrel-per-day processing basis and advances LibertyStream’s repeatable template for critical mineral recovery from existing U.S. oil and gas water-handling infrastructure.
Freedom Launchpad is where LibertyStream is producing lithium carbonate, preparing customer samples, training operators, capturing process data, and refining the operating playbook. Freedom 1, located at the same site, is the Company’s first 1,000 tonne-per-annum commercial-scale plant, previously referred to as Facility 1.
“Commissioning the fully automated Gen 6 system is an important execution milestone,” said Alex Wylie, President & CEO of LibertyStream. “We have moved from field learning, manual operation, and customer sample production into an automated system that reflects the architecture we intend to scale. Our focus remains disciplined: produce, qualify, train, build, and deploy.”
Automated Platform, Field-Learned Process
The fully automated Gen 6 system incorporates programmable logic controls and real-time monitoring across key operating variables, including temperature, pressure, flow rates, pH, and conductivity.
The system uses automation to streamline operations, strengthen operating consistency, and capture process data as LibertyStream advances customer samples, product qualification, operating-team training, and Freedom 1 readiness.
This commissioning milestone builds on the Company’s prior Gen 6 field work, which incorporated 21 months of operations, more than 400,000 barrels of processed brine, and over 2,500 operating tests. The Gen 6 configuration also reduced cycle time to approximately 20 minutes, compared with approximately 60 minutes under the Gen 5 configuration.
Over the past several months, LibertyStream’s operations, engineering, and chemistry teams have operated and refined the Gen 6 process while training at Freedom Launchpad. That hands-on operating period was intentional. It allowed the team to develop process familiarity, troubleshoot in real time, and build operating knowledge across the extraction sequence.
The newly commissioned automated Gen 6 system transfers that field experience into a programmable operating platform. The process is not being changed for scale-up. The Company expects the commercial-scale design to use the same core process architecture, with larger carousels holding additional extraction modules to support increased throughput.
From Freedom Launchpad to Freedom 1
LibertyStream has already produced lithium carbonate at its first deployment site, delivered product for customer evaluation, and announced a long-term offtake milestone for 600 tonnes per year of planned lithium carbonate supply beginning in 2027.
The automated Gen 6 system is expected to support continued production, larger-format customer samples, product qualification, performance data capture, operating-team development, and Freedom 1 readiness.
Freedom 1 is being developed as the Company’s first commercial-scale installation under its agreement with Select Water Solutions. As previously disclosed, the Stage 1 facility is designed for 1,000 tonnes per annum of lithium carbonate production and is targeted for commissioning by the end of December 2026.
Visible Progress at Freedom 1
Site preparation for Freedom 1 is advancing.
The Company has cleared and leveled the installation area and is preparing for concrete work to support receipt of commercial-scale equipment expected in late Q3 and early Q4 2026.
This work is part of LibertyStream’s broader execution plan to move from Freedom Launchpad into a repeatable commercial template. The objective is not a single installation. The objective is a scalable model for recovering critical minerals from large water streams already moving through established U.S. energy infrastructure.
Lithium carbonate is LibertyStream’s first product focus. The broader platform is designed around technology-led critical mineral recovery from existing oil and gas water-handling infrastructure. The Company expects to provide further updates as the automated Gen 6 system continues operating and as performance data, customer sample activity, Freedom 1 preparation, and commercial-scale equipment deployment advance.
About LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners
LibertyStream is a lithium development and technology company aiming to be one of North America’s first commercial producers of lithium carbonate from oilfield brine. Our strategy is to generate value for shareholders by leveraging management’s hydrocarbon experience to deploy our proprietary DLE technology directly into existing oil and gas infrastructure, thereby reducing capital costs, lowering risks and supporting the world’s clean energy transition. We are committed to operating efficiently and with transparency across all areas of the business staying sharply focused on creating long-term, sustainable shareholder value. Investors and/or other interested parties may sign up for updates about the Company’s continued progress on its website: https://LibertyStream.com/.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release includes certain “forward-looking statements” and “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws (collectively referred to herein as “forward-looking information”). When used in this news release, the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “target”, “plan”, “forecast”, “may”, “will”, “would”, “could”, “schedule” and similar words or expressions, identify forward-looking information. Statements, other than statements of historical fact, may constitute forward-looking information and include, without limitation, the Company’s expectations with respect to finalizing the definitive Offtake Agreement and the consulting agreement and the timing thereof; the anticipated services to be provided in the consulting agreement and the issuance of restricted share units to the consultant; the anticipated benefits of the Offtake Agreement; the Company’s expectations with respect to Facility 1 and the integration of the Company’s platform with existing oilfield water infrastructure; the Company’s expectations with respect to all-in operating costs of a 1,000-tonne-per-annum facility; the Company’s planned commercial configuration for Facility 1; the expectation that Facility 1 will generate standalone positive operating cash flow; the ability of the results from pre-commercial operations to date to create meaningful shareholder value and the Company’s ability to secure long-term commercial contracts; and the benefits of the Company’s proprietary DLE technology including the anticipated reduction of capital costs associated with lithium carbonate extraction from oilfield brine by the use of existing oil and gas infrastructure and the support of clean energy transition efforts caused by the deploy of the Company’s proprietary DLE technology. With respect to the forward-looking information contained in this news release, the Company has made numerous assumptions. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies and may prove to be incorrect. Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information contained herein including the risk that the timing of launching full-scale operations may be delayed or not occur at all; the risk that the Company is not able to secure appropriate partnerships, customers, and offtake agreements, including entering into the definitive Offtake Agreement based on the non-binding term sheet with the Offtake Partner, on terms acceptable to the Company or at all; the risk that the Company cannot achieve full commercial-scale operations on the timeline currently anticipated or at all; the risk that the Company’s anticipated all-in operating costs will be higher than expected; the risk that the assumptions of management in calculating the anticipated all-in operating costs are not complete or may change through the course of the Company’s ongoing business activities; the risk that management’s expectations and assumptions related to generating standalone positive cash flow are not complete or may change through the course of the Company’s ongoing business activities; the risk that the DLE technology cannot be scaled on a commercial basis as currently anticipated by the Company or at all; the risk that the anticipated near-term strategy may not be executed as currently anticipated; and, generally, those known risk factors outlined in the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and the Company’s annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2024. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
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