American Renewable Metals LLC
America’s Waste, America’s Critical Minerals
About ARM
About ARM
Built by people who've scaled hard technology before.
Our mission is to rebuild America's critical minerals supply chain from resources the country already has — the ash ponds, tailings, and retired electronics of the last industrial century — and to do it profitably, cleanly, and at home.
Meet the Team
Leadership
Daniel J. Blakley
Co-founder · CEO
25+ years of executive leadership across economic development, banking, and the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. PI/Co-PI on major DOE, NSF, and EDA awards.
Dr. William "Rusty" Sutterlin
Co-founder · CSO
30+ years in chemical process design; inventor on 100+ patents including the platform's foundational U.S. Patent 12,215,408 and ARM's patent-pending EAF dust and lithium recovery technologies. U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award recipient.
Weston T. Williams
COO
Retired U.S. Army officer with 22 years of service, 17 as a Green Beret. Global operations leadership across DOD, DOS, and UN engagements, and mining operations management
Mark Tegen
Executive Director of Engineering
25+ years commercializing separation technologies; took SMB chromatography from design to GMP-grade commercial operation as founder/COO of a publicly listed separations company. Co-founder & CEO of Inventure Renewables (2007–2018); inventor on 50+ global patent filings.
Chris Abbott
VP of Finance
15+ years across investing, institutional wealth management, and large-scale project advisory. CFA charterholder.
The Facility
Bessemer, Alabama
ARM operates a pilot- and demonstration-scale complex in Bessemer, Alabama — a federally recognized HUBZone in the Birmingham metropolitan area: three buildings totaling roughly 43,000 square feet of laboratory, processing, and warehouse space, owned by the company's members.
-
Multi-stage acid digestion reactors, up to 1 ton/day capacity
-
Continuous ion exchange carousel
-
Simulated moving bed chromatography columns
-
ICP-OES analytical instrumentation
-
Full chemical containment infrastructure
Veteran-Owned
We build with the same standard we served under: mission first, done right.
ARM is a veteran-owned small business. Our founders and leadership include U.S. Army veterans with more than two decades of combined service.