5N HPA Manufacturing Plant

先进能源矿物（英国）有限公司将利用其母公司AEMI集团有限公司（AEMI）世界领先的专利技术，完成英国一家高纯氧化铝（HPA）制造厂的技术可行性研究（“研究”），该工厂使用在英格兰西南部（可能是康沃尔）开采的高岭土作为原料。该工厂将为英国提供自己的，完全国内供应的材料，作为防止电动汽车锂离子电池（“EV-LIB”）过热和着火的陶瓷涂层分离器的关键投入，预计随着电动汽车锂离子电池需求的增长，将面临全球供应短缺。HPA市场预计将在未来5年强劲增长，这是由于对电池的需求增加以及HPA在电池中的使用增加。2019年，全球对HPA的需求为30,000吨/年，预计到2025年将增加到125,000吨/年，复合年增长率接近27%。AEMI已经在其位于魁北克Cap Chat的工厂展示了其技术在制造5N（纯度为99.999%）HPA方面的功效，这是14年研发的产品，涉及2.5亿加元的支出。该研究将确定德文郡和康沃尔郡的哪些已知高岭土矿床最适合作为该技术的原料，并对该技术进行必要的修改，以优化其使用所选原料的性能。该研究是一项计划的一部分，该计划将于2023年初在英国的一家工厂生产5N HPA，具体地点将由研究决定。该工厂预计将成为世界上成本最低的HPA生产商之一，为英国和欧盟快速扩张的EV-LIB超级工厂网络提供卓越的服务。

Advanced Energy Minerals (UK) Limited will leverage its parent, AEMI Group Limited's (AEMI's) world leading patented technology to complete a Technical Feasibility Study ("Study") for a High Purity Alumina (HPA) manufacturing plant in the UK, using kaolin clay mined in South West England, likely Cornwall, as its feedstock. This plant would provide the UK with its own, totally domestic supply of a material that, as a key input for the ceramic coated separators that prevent Electric Vehicle -- Lithium Ion Batteries ("EV-LIB's) from overheating and catching fire, is forecast to experience global supply shortages as the demand for EV-LIBs grows.The HPA market is expected to grow strongly over the next 5 years driven by both greater demand for batteries and increased use of HPA in battery cells. Global demand for HPA was 30,000 tpa in 2019 and is forecast to increase to 125,000 tpa by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of nearly 27%.AEMI has already demonstrated the efficacy of its technology in manufacturing 5N (99.999% pure) HPA at its plant in Cap Chat, Quebec, which is the product of 14 years of R&D involving C$250 million of expenditure. The Study will determine which of the known deposits of kaolin in Devon and Cornwall is most suitable as a feedstock for this technology and any modifications needed to the technology to optimise its performance with the selected feedstock.The Study is part of a plan leading to the production of 5N HPA at a plant in the UK by early 2023 in a location to be decided by the Study. The plant is expected to be one of the world's lowest cost producers of HPA, excellently placed to supply the UK's and the EU's rapidly expanding EV-LIB Gigafactory network.