Metallium completes commissioning campaign in Texas
- Metallium processed 0.3 tonnes of material during a 12-hour engineering campaign in Texas.
- Following the announcement, the Metallium share price was up at $0.48.
- The company stated that the campaign data will support its ongoing commercial scale-up activities.
Metallium (ASX:MTM) executed an agreement and completed its first multi-unit flash joule heating reactor commissioning campaign at its development facility in Texas.
The technology development facility ran three units simultaneously over a 12-hour period, which compares to prior laboratory-scale validation.
The company stated that the processing campaign achieved an average unit availability of 83% and a utilisation factor of approximately 100%.
The 12-person operational team completed 18 processing batches and generated engineering data without encountering any safety incidents or lost-time injuries.
The engineering campaign represents an intermediate step towards commercial deployment as the company advances its proprietary processing platform.
Following the announcement, the Metallium share price was up at $0.48.
The materials company is developing the processing technology to support the commercial deployment of multiple parallel reactor units using automated control systems.
