Orbite posts HPA Plant Update

Orbite Technologies Inc. today announced that, further to its press release of September 21, 2016, production activities have commenced at its high purity alumina ("HPA") plant.

• Commissioning and start-up of the digestion circuit was completed, a planned. The first batch of feedstock digestion commenced this afternoon and will be followed by another batch early tomorrow.
• Commissioning and start-up of the crystallisation circuit is well advanced and the first batches of liquor, produced in the digestion circuit, will be transferred to the crystallisation circuit over the  weekend for first production of aluminum chloride hexahydrate ("ACH") crystals. ACH crystals are the precursor to high purity alumina ("HPA").
• Production will continue in batch mode in these two circuits as extensive testing will be carried out on the digester liquors and ACH crystals, to ensure production and purity criteria are met. Each full digestion and crystallisation batch cycle will initially take approximately 3.5 days to complete.
• Once the ACH crystals meet the purity criteria, they will be transferred to the decomposer and calciner circuit for HPA production.
• Once production and purity criteria are met in all three circuits, the plant will switch over to semi-continuous operation mode and commence ramp up to name plate capacity.

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"We are very pleased to have now commenced the production sequence at our HPA plant," stated Glenn Kelly, CEO of Orbite. "We are entering a very exciting phase in our evolution as a company, and we would like to thank our employees and contractors for their sustained and concentrated efforts over the last months."