Freedom 1 plant preparation continues alongside Gen 6 operations

LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners has commissioned its fully automated Gen 6 lithium extraction system at Freedom Launchpad, the company’s training and customer-sample production platform at its first deployment site.

On 6 July 2026, the Dallas-based company said the Gen 6 system was operating as expected and was supporting lithium extraction and lithium carbonate production.

LibertyStream trades on the TSXV as LIB, on the OTCQB as VLTLF and on the FSE as I2D.

At Freedom Launchpad, LibertyStream is producing lithium carbonate, preparing customer samples, training operators, capturing process data and refining its operating playbook.

Nearby, Freedom 1 is LibertyStream’s first 1,000 tonne-per-annum commercial-scale plant, previously called Facility 1.

Gen 6 is designed around a 5,000 barrel-per-day processing basis and uses existing US oil and gas water-handling infrastructure.

Alex Wylie, LibertyStream’s president and chief executive, called the commissioning “an important execution milestone”.

Alex Wylie and Gen 6 data

According to LibertyStream, the automated platform uses programmable logic controls and real-time monitoring for temperature, pressure, flow rates, pH and conductivity.

As a result, the company aims to improve operating consistency while advancing customer samples, product qualification, team training and Freedom 1 readiness.

Earlier Gen 6 field work covered 21 months of operations, more than 400,000 barrels of processed brine and more than 2,500 operating tests.

Cycle time fell to about 20 minutes under Gen 6 from about 60 minutes under the Gen 5 configuration.

Over the past several months, LibertyStream’s operations, engineering and chemistry teams refined the Gen 6 process while training at Freedom Launchpad.

That hands-on work helped staff troubleshoot in real time and build operating knowledge across the extraction sequence.

Wylie said LibertyStream had moved from field learning and manual operation into an automated system built on the architecture it intends to scale.

Meanwhile, Freedom Launchpad supports lithium carbonate production, customer-sample preparation, operator training and data capture while LibertyStream prepares Freedom 1 for commercial operation.

Wylie said the company’s near-term focus remained disciplined: “produce, qualify, train, build, and deploy.”