About

Living the Implats Way

Our purpose is to create a better future. We accomplish this through the metals we produce, the way we do business and through our superior performance.

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Operations

Diverse geological settings

Implats has the advantage of geographical diversification and exploits platiniferous horizons within the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe and the palladium-dominant orebody located in the Lac des Iles Intrusive Complex in Canada. The Bushveld Complex and Great Dyke layered intrusions are unique in terms of size and geological continuity.

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Investors

Harnessing PGMs for fuel cell technology

Decarbonisation is an urgent global challenge. There are increasing opportunities to use platinum-catalysed fuel cells to provide zero-emitting, carbon-free energy, in electricity and mobile applications.

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Media

Industry leading accommodation programme

Employee accommodation and living conditions remain key strategic issues for improving the wellbeing of our employees and host communities in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Our focus remains on facilitating the creation of sustainable human settlements and access to decent accommodation for employees who are residing in informal structures.

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Sustainability

Resilience to climate change

The increasing evidence globally of physical climate impacts – wildfires, floods, rising temperatures – is driving a greater sense of urgency in building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate.

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Careers

We set each other up for success

Sustaining livelihoods during and beyond mining

Sustaining livelihoods during and beyond mining

The positive social and economic contributions we make in the communities in which we operate are aimed at creating thriving, self-sustaining and inclusive mine communities.

Highlights:

Partner to achieve food security in our mine communities: Supported households, farmers and agricultural projects

Drive access to effective health and wellbeing programmes: Delivered projects to improve access to health treatments, equitable education outcomes, safety and climate resilience

Our approach to mine community wellbeing involves conducting initiatives that ensure food, nutritional and income security, and providing access to health services in our mine communities.

We are committed to:

  Community wellbeing     Education and skills
development		     Inclusive procurement and enterprise and supplier development     Infrastructure  
 
  • Partner to achieve food security in our mine communities
  • Drive access to effective health and wellbeing programmes for our mine communities.
    
  • Drive access to quality education for our community learners
  • Ensure our tertiary and vocational education projects deliver relevant skills for the future.
    
  • Prioritise procurement from local and host communities and indigenous enterprises Support the development of resilient small and medium menterprises in our value chain and beyond.
  • Support the development of resilient small and medium menterprises in our value chain and beyond.
    
  • Partner to ensure mine community households have affordable access to digital connectivity
  • Deliver and upgrade infrastructure to achieve our wellbeing, educational and inclusive growth goals.
  

Community wellbeing

Our approach to mine community wellbeing involves conducting initiatives that ensure food, nutritional and income security, and providing access to health services in our mine communities.

Highlights:

R7 million invested on several community wellbeing projects around our South African operations (2023: R3 million)

R9 million spent by Zimplats on community wellbeing projects in 2024 (2023: R40 million).

Mine community education and skills development

Our goal is to deliver education and skills development programmes that open employment opportunities.

Highlights:

More than 600 active community bursaries/scholarships and learnerships

R139 million total Group spend on education and skills development in our mining communities (2023: R121 million)


Inclusive procurement and mine community enterprise and supplier development (ESD)

Inclusive procurement and enterprise and supplier development (ESD) are key focus areas of our social performance framework. We aim to grow resilient, sustainable mine community businesses that create jobs and participate in supply chains beyond our mine gate.

Higlights:

R4.2 billion spend with tier 1 suppliers in South Africa (2023: R2.0 billion)

R992 million spend with local economic development beneficiaries in Zimbabwe (2023: R1.1 billion)

C$46 million spend with indigenous suppliers in Canada (2023: C$48 million)

Where possible, we set-aside procurement opportunities associated with our infrastructure projects and corporate social investment initiatives for our community SMEs.

Total overall procurement split

Resilient and enabling infrastructure in support of our communities

Implats’ infrastructure projects in South Africa are linked to our SLP and other commitments. These projects provide much-needed facilities for community safety, health and wellbeing services to help build resilience to climate change-related events through access to bridges, roads and water-related projects, and improve educational outcomes.

Highlights:

R194 million in community infrastructure projects for our mine communities

Built four additional classrooms, with storage rooms and ablution facilities at Matale Secondary School

Water tanks installed at local schools to improve hygiene and climate resilience