Updated - Micro Plant Delivers Critical 4N HPA Milestone

ChemX Materials (ASX:CMX) (ChemX or the Company), an Australian based high purity critical materials business provides further information to the previously released announcement on 29th September 2023, Micro Plant Delivers Critical 4N HPA Milestone.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Micro Plant achieves 4N (99.99%) purity High Purity Alumina (HPA) across 66 elements critical for the global battery and energy transition market.
• ChemX products on the pathway to deliver high purity materials to the global battery industry, the synthetic sapphire markets, LEDs, semi-conductor and optical lenses for testing and qualification, subject to suitable quantities of HPA being produced.
• ChemX’s 100%-owned HiPurA® technology delivers key milestone within 12 months since commissioning HPA facility.
• The HiPurA® process is modular, scalable and independent of direct mine production, which enables ChemX to locate key future production facilities close to customers in a just-in-time customised approach.

ChemX Materials Limited (ASX:CMX) (ChemX or the Company), an Australian based high purity critical materials developer, is delighted to announce recent results from its High Purity Alumina (HPA) Micro Plant operations, located in Perth, Western Australia.

ChemX’s 100%-owned HiPurA® chemical feedstock process has delivered an outstanding 4N (99.99%) HPA result across an impressive 66 element spectrum. The Company is now working to ensure repeatability of this result through continued plant optimisation as it seeks to scale up the process to pilot plant scale.

Importantly, achieving a 4N product involves a sample quality with impurities of less than 100 parts per million and this quality is what is required for testing and qualification to commence for the global battery separator market.

In late CY2022, ChemX commissioned its Integrated HPA Facility with the goal of advancing the scale up of the HiPurA® HPA flowsheet from laboratory scale to continuous operation.

Chief Executive Officer, Peter Lee commented:

“The Company is extremely proud to have achieved an outstanding result from our Micro Plant, with detailed logged data from feedstock delivery through each stage of the process being achieved.