【Ferro-alloys.com】：The 70% reduction in electricity used by the SmeltDirect technology is a huge achievement, a giant leap forward, Phoenix Research’s David Roche-Kelly remarked following the update on the local technology during question time at Friday's results presentation of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM).

The Proudly South African smelting technology of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed ARM, headed by founder and nonexecutive chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe, enables three times more product to be produced using the same amount of electricity.

Moreover, using much less electricity for adding value to mined ore is a very practical way of saving money.

“We’re ready for commercialisation. We've done all the testwork, and we're very confident that our technology will work and that we can smelt alloys using up to 70% less electricity,” African Rainbow Metal Technologies (ARMeT) CEO Andre Joubert said in response to Mining Weekly’s request for an update on SmeltDirect, which opens the way for South Africa’s ores to be processed in South Africa, by South Africans for the benefit of South Africans.

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