Products & Applications

The nature of the FFC Cambridge technology is that it removes the oxygen ion from a metal oxide within an electrochemical cell. As such Metalysis is able to reduce any metal oxide to its elemental state provided that it is able to source the oxide feedstock. By combining metal oxides at the cathode Metalysis can directly produce alloys, without going through the conventional melting route and similarly, by combining a metal oxide and carbon, it can directly produce metal carbides.

This provides the Company with a wide range of potential product pipelines including: scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, iron, nickel, zinc, aluminium, silicon, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten and neodymium; as well as alloys and carbides thereof. Whilst some of these materials are produced in high volumes and at economies of scale that are unlikely to be surpassed by the FFC technology, there remain many niche applications where the FFC technology offers significant capital and operational cost savings when compared to conventional production processes.

Metalysis is focussing its resources in these areas and particularly in producing tantalum, titanium, alloys and carbides.