Your DLE pilot can't wait 18 months for filtration
The lithium race is won with speed. While others wait for civil works, permits and commissioning, you could be generating real process data. Tecionic arrives in weeks with everything needed to operate.
DLE will win. But DLE demands impeccable brine.
Direct lithium extraction is replacing evaporation ponds. It reduces months to days, consumes less water, has smaller footprint. Projects that master DLE will lead the market.
But there's a problem: DLE membranes and adsorbents are sensitive. Clays, suspended solids, magnesium precipitates - any contaminant reduces efficiency and shortens equipment life that costs a fortune.
Solid-liquid separation isn't optional. It's the enabler of your DLE process.
Tecionic eliminates these three problems at once
We arrive with ready equipment, personnel who operate them, maintenance included, and we scale with you. You pay a monthly fee for working filtration capacity. Zero CAPEX. Zero waiting. Zero rigidity.
What working with Tecionic means
Start in weeks, not years
Your competitors are waiting for construction permits. You already have centrifuges clarifying brine. Your pilot generates data while others are still in detailed engineering. That time advantage can define who leads the market.
Your capital produces lithium, not iron
Instead of immobilizing millions in filtration equipment, that capital goes to expand your extractive capacity. Tecionic solves filtration with predictable OPEX. Your balance sheet stays clean, your board sees investment in production.
Scale when you want, not when you can
Your project grows from pilot to demonstration to commercial. Need more capacity? We add equipment. Plan changed? We adjust. No oversized iron eating depreciation, no insufficient infrastructure slowing your growth.
You focus on lithium, we focus on filtration
Our team operates the equipment, does maintenance, solves problems. Your people focus on what they know: optimizing extraction, not learning about centrifuges. 23 years doing this gave us the experience you don't need to develop.
We don't sell equipment. We sell operating filtration capacity.
After 23 years in mining we understood something: clients don't want to buy iron. They want their process to work. That's what we deliver.
Over 70% of Chilean copper mining works with us under this model. The same logic applies to lithium: you produce, we filter.
We evaluate your process together
We understand what you need to filter, what volumes you handle, what quality you require. We define the equipment configuration that solves your specific problem.
We mobilize in weeks
Equipment arrives at your salar ready. Centrifuges, filter presses, whatever you need. No civil works, no construction permits, no waiting months.
We operate with our team
Tecionic personnel run the equipment. They know the machines, understand the processes, solve problems without you having to intervene. Maintenance included.
We scale with you
Your pilot worked and you need more capacity? We add equipment. Strategy changed? We adjust or withdraw. Total flexibility.
Every step of your process has a point where filtration makes the difference
Whether you use DLE, traditional evaporation, or a hybrid. Solid-liquid separation appears in multiple stages. These are the points where Tecionic adds value.
Pre-DLE
Your membranes and adsorbents cost a fortune and are sensitive to solids. Tecionic centrifuges deliver clarified brine that protects your DLE investment and maximizes critical equipment life.
Impurity removal
LATAM brines come loaded with magnesium, calcium, boron. Their precipitation generates gelatinous sludges that are a nightmare. Tecionic filter presses handle these difficult materials without drama.
Lithium carbonate
Your Li₂CO₃ needs washing to remove soluble impurities and filtration to reduce moisture. Controlled wash and compression cycles that deliver product ready for drying.
Circuit closure
Water in the salar is gold. Environmental permits require minimizing consumption. Process water clarification for recirculation. You reduce freshwater dependence and comply with regulations that get stricter every year.
Process validation
Before committing capital to commercial plant you need real data. Mobile equipment that supports your pilot, generates the information you need, and leaves when you're done. No permanent investment for a temporary phase.
23 years. Over 70% of Chilean copper. Now lithium.
We started in 2002 solving solid-liquid separation for copper SX/EW processes. Today most of Chile's major miners work with us.
In 2020 we expanded to lithium and potassium. The physics of separation is the same. What changes is the chemistry, and for that we adapt configurations and materials.
You're not experimenting with us. You're working with people who have been doing exactly this for decades.
Your competition is waiting for permits.
You could be operating.
Tell us about your project. We'll show you how Tecionic can accelerate your timeline and free up capital for what really matters.