About Us

Our Company

U.S. Vanadium is a privately owned, US-based specialty chemical producer that manufactures the world’s highest-purity vanadium oxide, a strategic material that commands a price premium and has few substitutes.  We also produce ultra-high-purity vanadium redox flow battery electrolyte and many other specialty vanadium chemical products.

We are the only integrated producer of high-purity vanadium specialty chemicals in the US.

The Company operates facilities in Hot Springs and Benton, Arkansas.

  • We are a global leader in high-purity V2O5 and ultra-high-purity Vanadium Redox Flow Battery electrolyte.
  • USV’s Vanadium Redox Flow Battery electrolyte can meet the current specifications for all major VRFB system manufacturers.
  • USV has secured sufficient feedstock to fuel a ramp-up to full production capacity.
  • US Government strongly supporting domestic buildout of grid-level Vanadium Redox Flow Battery infrastructure.
  • We have many Fortune 500 customers.
  • We are led by a highly experienced leadership team
US Vanadium conducts a test of vanadium feedstock roasting.

OUR FACILITIES

We operate two facilities in the State of Arkansas — Hot Springs and Benton — where our highly experienced chemists, operators, and quality control experts produce some of the world’s finest vanadium chemical products.  

Hot Springs, Arkansas

  • Been in operation for more than 50 years
  • Produces ultra-high-purity Vanadium Redox Flow Battery electrolyte, high-purity, aerospace-grade V2O5 and V2O3, and other specialty vanadium chemicals
  • ISO 9001 2015 certified
  • Onsite laboratory / technical center
  • Total facility acreage:  912
  • All environmental and operating permits in place
  • 54 employees
U.S. Vanadium To Keep Arkansas-Based Facility Operational

Benton, Arkansas

  • Vanadium feedstock roasting facility
  • 150,000 tonnes of annual processing capacity
  • Total facility acreage:  37
  • ISO 9001 Certified
  • 22 employees
USV Benton Plant
High Purity Vanadium Pentoxide

OUR PRODUCTS

We produce a wide range of vanadium oxides, vanadium-based chemicals and alloys used in the global chemical, catalyst, and titanium alloy industries, and a large variety of specialty vanadium-based chemicals.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mark Smith serves as Chairman of the Board of US Vanadium and was a significant early investor in the Company.  The former President and CEO of vanadium-producer Largo Resources Ltd., Mr. Smith has nearly 40 years of experience in the mining and mineral processing industries.

Mr. Menell is the Chairman and CEO of TechMet Limited.   TechMet is a private investment company with a scalable platform of world-class assets that produce, process and recycle ‘technology metals’ – the critical ingredients of the energy revolution.  Brian has more than 25 years’ of funding, developing and operating natural resource and mining projects across 18 sub-Saharan countries, the CIS, and Canada.

Mr. Castle is CEO of US Vanadium. With a background in engineering, Mr. Castle has over 30 years’ experience across company leadership, project/operational delivery and transformation, technical planning and implementation, fund management, business development and governance roles.

Mr. Weiss has over 30 years of experience in the mining, trading, and chemical sectors as an owner and management executive.  He joined Prince International Corporation, a global specialty minerals and chemicals manufacturer, in 2004 and served as its Executive Vice President until 2020. 

Mr. Perles has more than 30 years of experience in the vanadium industry in roles including sales, marketing, strategic planning and senior management. Mr. Perles joined US Steel Corporation in 1980 as a Construction Management Engineer and held assignments at the company’s steel mills in Homestead and Clairton, Pennsylvania.

Daniel Katz has over 30 years’ experience in the metals business, starting in 1991 when he joined the traffic department of Considar Inc. (which became Traxys in 2003 after its merger with Sogem).  After a few short years, he shifted to trading, where he became involved in trading vanadium products geared towards the steel industry.  Since 1997, has had overall responsibility for the noble alloys and rare earths trading divisions and is currently Senior Vice President – Noble Alloys and Rare Earths at Traxys North America LLC.  Mr. Katz received his BA in history from Yeshiva University in 1990.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Darryll Castle
Chief Executive Officer

Christian James
General Manager

Mark Murchison
Chief Financial Officer

Vincent Rocco
VP of Sales & Marketing

Jared Cooley
Plant Controller

Ryan Dossey
Director of Operations

Alicia Enslin
Director of Technology

Corne Enslin
Project Manager

Shane Weatherford
Director of Non-Process Services

CONTACT OUR TECHNICAL SALES PROFESSIONALS

U.S. Vanadium LLC produces and sells a range of specialty vanadium chemicals, including the highest-purity Vanadium Pentoxide (V205) in the world.

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