AEM Canada Group Inc. has reportedly announced that the design problems with its Cap Chat Plant’s Fluidized Bed Roaster and Calciner have been resolved successfully, while adding that commissioning ramp-up to the current design of 900 tpa High Purity Alumina (HPA) will continue for the rest of the year.
AEM Canada has been refurbishing the Cap Chat plant since the past six months after acquiring it from Orbite Technologies Inc in April 2020. The engineering shortcomings in in the Fluidized Bed Roaster and Calciner are now rectified that were previously causing the plant to fail repeatedly.
AEM Canada has also successfully completed post treatment of its HPA product in German trials to produce a very tight particle size distribution of superfine HPA in the range of 0.5 to 0.7 micron range. This superfine HPA is expected to be used widely in the Electric Vehicle's Lithium Ion Battery ("EV-LIB") Sector.
According to the report, AEM Canada will now focus on expanding its workforce by about 50 per cent in the next six months.
"The successful re- engineering of the Cap Chat plant is a significant and important milestone for AEM Canada. It is a credit to the resilience and perseverance of the operational team at Cap Chat, led by Plant Manager, Mr Michel Arseneault, Engineering Manager Mr. Sylvain Seyer and Senior Process Engineer, Ms Sophie LePage. The team is to be congratulated for staying with the project through many challenging times to achieve this significant production milestone while most importantly, maintaining an excellent safety record. The outstanding Cap-Chat Plant safety record was a key factor in convincing us to take the risk of investing in these assets", said Mr Julian Ford, Managing Director and CEO of AEM Canada.
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