Stollsteimer will oversee flagship facility in Silsbee
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Battery recycling technology company Ace Green Recycling Inc., of Houston, has named battery industry veteran Rick Stollsteimer as its senior vice president of operations, reported RecylingToday.com.
Stollsteimer joins Ace Green from Gopher Resource, an Eagan, Minnesota-based environmental solutions provider that specializes in battery recycling, where he served as vice president of operations, overseeing a 24/7/365 smelting facility that produces more than 175,000 tons of finished product annually.
At Gopher, Stollsteimer led initiatives that improved safety performance, increased operational uptime and drove gains in output efficiency.
At Ace Green, he will oversee operational readiness and scale-up of the company’s flagship facility in Silsbee, located at 735 FM 92 in the County Line Rail campus.
The facility is expected to deploy the company’s lead-acid recycling system in 2026, followed by its lithium iron phosphate focused lithium-ion system in 2027.
Reportedly, Stollsteimer will also play a central role in driving the company’s broader operational and commercial expansion throughout the region.
“I am thrilled to join Ace, which is building out market-leading, cutting-edge battery recycling technology,” Stollsteimer told RecylingToday.com. “I’ve experienced both the constraints and the challenges of traditional smelting. Ace’s proprietary technology eliminates the need for high-temperature furnaces altogether, offering a smarter, safer and more sustainable model for how battery recycling should operate at scale.”
“Rick’s decision to join Ace is a strong endorsement of our mission to build a cleaner, safer and more efficient battery recycling ecosystem in the United States,” said Ace Green co-founder and CEO Nishchay Chadha. “His firsthand experience in conventional smelting and track record of operational excellence will be invaluable as we bring our zero-emission technologies online and expand across North America.”
According to Stollsteimer’s social media account, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of Findlay in 1994 and later got his Master of Business Administration in Finance and Operation Management in 1998.
Prior to joining Ace Green, he worked as regional plant manager for Kloeckner Metals Corp. (2004-2015) and worked a year as director of Aerosol Operations for BWAY Corp.
Stollsteimer returned to Kloeckner a year later and was named regional director of the South Operations, then wa promoted to corporate director of Operational Excellence. From February 2021 to November, he plant manager and later promoted to vice president of Operations for Gopher Resources, before joining Ace Green.
— Dannie Oliveaux | DannieOliveaux@TheExaminer.com
