Electra Battery Materials Corp. today announced that George Puvvada, Ph.D., P.Eng., PMP, was appointed Vice President of Metallurgy and Technology effective today. Dr. Puvvada, who brings 30 years of experience developing effective flowsheets for recovering metals from complex formations and completing large-scale projects with some of the mining industry's largest companies, including Cameco, Xstrata, Vale, and Inco. Dr. Puvvada joined Electra in 2020 as Technical Manager and led the development of the company's flowsheets for producing battery-grade cobalt sulfate and recycling black mass material to recover high value elements, including nickel, cobalt, lithium, copper and manganese. Dr. Puvvada guided Electra's efforts to produce high quality nickel, cobalt and lithium ca...