FYI Resources announced the commencement of an extended high purity alumina (HPA) production run tailored to customer requests through its wholly owned pilot plant located in Perth, WA. FYI is undertaking a long duration market sample production run of high quality HPA to supply to potential customers following requests for follow up samples produced to particular specifications by certain end users. The HPA will be generated through FYI's innovative process flowsheet, which has been optimised following development work modifications and pilot plant testwork over the past 12 months.

FYI will also undertake specialised calcining test work to be included in post-production trials for determining various product finishes improving the suitability of FYI HPA in certain customer applications. The additional calcining work has a two-fold objective: to optimise the conditions for the recovery of hydrochloric acid during the production cycle of FYI's HPA to maximise product quality and energy efficiency; and to trial various HPA quality and product characteristic finishes as directed by potential customer requirements and applications. This calcining finishing work is directed at addressing growing customer demand in emerging markets identified by FYI.

The final HPA material is expected to be dispatched to potential customers by June 2023. As a subset of the production run, a portion of the generated HPA will be directed to specialised finishing (to be completed by the end user) for use as a separator ceramic coating in the electric vehicle battery (LiB) market. This particular production run is expected to be completed in May 2023.

FYI is committed to progressing the HPA project strategy through to commercial production via a defined project engineering pathway. FYI are currently receiving all project data from Alcoa following the termination of the joint development agreement and establishing a revised development schedule for the completion of both the small-scale production and commercial facilities. FYI plan to have the revised development outline finalised shortly.