Comstock Metals Commences 24/7 Operations for Solar Panel Recycling
SILVER SPRINGS, NEVADA, September 22, 2026 – Comstock Inc. (NYSE: LODE) (“Comstock” and the “Company”) and Comstock Metals LLC (“Comstock Metals”), a leader in the responsible, zero-landfill recycling of end-of-life solar panels with North America’s first certified operations, announced that the Company’s Solar Panel Recycling Production system is now operating continuously at its Silver Springs, Nevada facility.
“Following dedicated work preparation with our production supervisors and operating staff across the four shift teams, we have now successfully graduated to continuous operations,” stated Dr. Fortunato Villamagna, President of Comstock Metals. “We are grateful for the dedicated efforts and support of our entire team, our strategic suppliers, contractors, regulators and the broader Silver Springs community for making this first-of-a-kind operation possible.”
By establishing this continuous processing model in Silver Springs, Comstock Metals solidifies its market-leading position at the forefront of responsible, zero-landfill recycling of end-of-life solar panels. The facility's transition to continuous production ensures an efficient, high-volume, zero-landfill solution that eliminates disposal-related environmental liabilities for our utility-scale solar customers and provides them with certified, audit-ready chain-of-custody documentation validating that their end-of-life regulatory obligations have been fully discharged. The Company will now ramp up its production platform to meet increasingly higher customer volume demands.
The plant addresses a challenge the industry is only beginning to confront. As the installed base of solar panels approach the end of their operating lives, the volume of end-of-life panels requiring responsible processing is projected to grow sharply, far outpacing the industry's current capacity.
With Silver Springs operating continuously and additional storage capacity in place at its Hanford, CA and Cambridge, OH facilities, Comstock believes it is one of the few, if not the only, true domestic recyclers positioned to absorb the anticipated flow of end-of-life panels at the volumes utility-scale generators will require, without compromising the zero-landfill and chain-of-custody standards that customers depend on.
"The successful transition to continuous processing represents the most meaningful operational milestone to date for our expanding recycling platform," stated Corrado De Gasperis, CEO of Comstock Inc. "We have methodically developed, deployed, tested and are now continuously operating. We believe the technical implementation hurdles and uncertainties related to the first-time scaled deployment of our proprietary Solar Panel Recycling Production system have now been overcome. With demonstrable continuous production, our focus now turns to volume ramp.”
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About Comstock Metals
Comstock Metals is a national leader in the environmentally responsible, zero-landfill recycling of end-of-life solar panels and related energy infrastructure. Comstock Metals’ internally developed recycling technologies and continuous innovation produce recovered materials that strengthen domestic supply chains for advanced technologies while helping customers eliminate the economic, environmental, and reputational liabilities associated with end-of-life panel management. To learn more and stay up to date, visit www.comstockmetals.com and follow Comstock Metals on LinkedIn and YouTube.
About Comstock Inc.
Comstock Inc. (NYSE: LODE) innovates and commercializes technologies, systems and supply chains that enable, support and sustain clean energy systems by efficiently, effectively, and expediently extracting and converting under-utilized natural resources into reusable metals, like silver, aluminum, gold, and other critical minerals, primarily from end-of-life photovoltaics and renewable fuels, chemicals and animal feedstocks, primarily derived from proprietary crops from its wholly-owned Hexas Biomass Inc. and other forms of woody biomass for energy.
To learn more, please visit www.comstock.inc.
