Founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, Redwood began with a simple observation: The U.S. is sitting on a massive above-ground stockpile of critical minerals in our end-of-life products. Since most mining, refining and component production occurs overseas, there was a huge opportunity to create a domestic, circular supply chain from the materials we have already mined and products we’ve imported. Redwood’s mission is to build the energy supply chain at home, transforming waste into domestic critical materials; scaling refining and component manufacturing; and deploying dependable storage systems built from both new and repurposed batteries.

Since its inception, Redwood has established large recycling and refining campuses in Nevada and South Carolina, created one of the country’s largest domestic sources of cobalt, nickel, lithium and copper, and launched an energy business delivering low-cost, U.S.-built battery storage at scale. Redwood turns today’s waste into tomorrow’s strategic assets and underpins long-term U.S. industrial and energy leadership.