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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ESG

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

Implats seeks to deliver sustained value to its stakeholders. This is achieved by leveraging, strengthening and growing the Group’s competitive mineral portfolio and collection of processing assets, and through its commitment to sustainable development, operational excellence and an optimal capital allocation framework.

Market

Primary and secondary supply

Operational headwinds prevalent across sector

Limited changes in primary supply outlook

Some recovery in secondary supply is expected in the short term, with meaningful medium-term growth possible

Uncertain macro outlook

Persistent downward pressure on precious metal pricing

PGM pricing dislocations caused by discounted metal flows from Russia, industrial and automotive end-users destocking portions of their PGM inventory and poor investor sentiment amid an uncertain macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape

Platinum pricing

Near-term platinum pricing dictated by investor sentiment and macro-economic news flow

Auto demand to ease as light-vehicle production growth is skewed to BEVs

Jewellery demand stabilising – underpinned by India and the West

Palladium and rhodium demand

Near-term palladium pricing dictated by investor sentiment and macro-economic news flow

Palladium auto demand impacted by BEV growth, switching and Chinese thrifting

Weaker auto demand for rhodium, with recovery in industrial offtake

Global market trends

Continually assess impact of global trends on PGM market outlook and target our market development activities

The development of a hydrogen economy and the latent potential offtake for PGMs is a key underpin to our long-term view of future demand and the role our primary products will play in a changing world

Medium-term hydrogen-derived PGM growth is expected to remain rapid, but some high-end forecasts have been trimmed amid project delays, uncertain policy and the weak macroeconomic environment

Sustainable development

Asset portfolio

Processing capacity

Capital allocation framework and priorities

Management actions


Strategic partnerships for responsible water stewardship

With the correct frameworks and management, public-private partnerships (PPPs) are being deployed to assist in solving some of South Africa's more intractable electricity and rail logistics constraints to boost the country's economic performance.

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Increasing use of technology to monitor tailings dams

Technology has a vital role in strengthening the monitoring of our tailings facilities. A particular focus is the increasing use of drones to monitor environmental and critical controls, and to document inspections through photographs and video.

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Growing the hydrogen economy

Hydrogen is a versatile, zero-emission energy carrier with a high energy density. It can also be stored in large quantities and for long periods. The Hydrogen Council currently estimates that hydrogen could represent 18% of global energy demand by 2050.

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