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Saltworks designs and delivers modular plants for industrial water treatment and lithium processing. Its offer spans testing, process integration and support, with HydraOS adding plant simulation, digital-twin analysis and operator assistance.
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
The September 2026 HydraOS announcement reports integration at Aurora using live operating data. Aurora remains a demonstration and optimization plant; this does not establish sustained commercial lithium production or independent validation of every claimed efficiency gain.
Customers can scope testing and full-scale water or lithium plants with training and remote support. HydraOS is offered with Saltworks facilities, and the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific.
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Saltworks Technologies
Source type: official company news
Supports: Capability · core features
Saltworks introduced HydraOS in September 2026 and reported it integrated into the Aurora demonstration plant using live operating data. HydraOS combines plant automation, simulation, an offline digital twin, virtual-engineer support and ion sensing; the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific. HydraOS is offered only with Saltworks water-treatment and lithium-processing facilities, not as a general standalone industrial operating system.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Saltworks introduced HydraOS in September 2026 and reported it integrated into the Aurora demonstration plant using live operating data. HydraOS combines plant automation, simulation, an offline digital twin, virtual-engineer support and ion sensing; the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific. HydraOS is offered only with Saltworks water-treatment and lithium-processing facilities, not as a general standalone industrial operating system.
Supports: Capability · summary
Saltworks introduced HydraOS in September 2026 and reported it integrated into the Aurora demonstration plant using live operating data. HydraOS combines plant automation, simulation, an offline digital twin, virtual-engineer support and ion sensing; the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific. HydraOS is offered only with Saltworks water-treatment and lithium-processing facilities, not as a general standalone industrial operating system.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Saltworks introduced HydraOS in September 2026 and reported it integrated into the Aurora demonstration plant using live operating data. HydraOS combines plant automation, simulation, an offline digital twin, virtual-engineer support and ion sensing; the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific. HydraOS is offered only with Saltworks water-treatment and lithium-processing facilities, not as a general standalone industrial operating system.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Saltworks introduced HydraOS in September 2026 and reported it integrated into the Aurora demonstration plant using live operating data. HydraOS combines plant automation, simulation, an offline digital twin, virtual-engineer support and ion sensing; the degree of autonomous control is customer-specific. HydraOS is offered only with Saltworks water-treatment and lithium-processing facilities, not as a general standalone industrial operating system.
Natural Resources Canada · Jun 17, 2026
Source type: official report
Supports: Capability · maturity
Natural Resources Canada's public evidence confirms a company-specific project, award, program or operating context, while configuration-specific acceptance and scale remain bounded by the reviewer warning.
Saltworks Technologies
Source type: official company product
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Brine-to-battery lithium refining
Supports: Capability · core features
Modular automated treatment and refining plants
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Saltworks Technologies currently presents Digitized modular water and lithium-processing systems through its official public capability surface.
Saltworks Technologies
Source type: official company product
Supports: Capability · capability type
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Saltworks Technologies
Source type: official company news
Supports: Capability · core features
The June 2026 Project Aurora update reports Gen-II lithium-extraction technology installed as the Saskatchewan demonstration plant nears mechanical completion; sustained continuous demonstration remained a next step. Aurora integrates modular refining and automation at EMP Metals' wellhead; existing full-scale industrial-water plants do not prove equivalent lithium-plant operating maturity. EMP Metals provides the brine source and development support for the long-term demonstration; the installation is not a completed commercial lithium operation.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
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Supports: Capability · summary
Saltworks combines membrane, chemical, thermal, and automated control products into complete treatment and lithium-refining trains. Its Generation-II lithium process is being demonstrated at Project Aurora while other water-treatment products are already sold at full scale.
Supports: Capability · core features
Brine concentration, impurity removal, crystallization, and water recovery
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the industrial-water tag from Saltworks Technologies's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map maps Digitized modular water and lithium-processing systems to advanced manufacturing and integration from its documented technology functions.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Industrial and semiconductor water reuse
Supports: Capability · capability type
Source-bounded strategic technology capability
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the lithium-processing tag from Saltworks Technologies's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · name
Digitized modular water and lithium-processing systems
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · core features
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · name
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · summary
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Saltworks designs and supplies modular industrial wastewater treatment and lithium-refining systems. Its plants combine treatment, desalination, evaporation and crystallization for water recovery, zero liquid discharge or critical-mineral outputs. Customers can use process review, bench and pilot testing, full-scale delivery, training and remote support to scope a plant.
