Living the Implats Way
Our purpose is to create a better future to improve the lives of future generations. We accomplish this through the metals we produce, the way we do business and through our superior performance.
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Our purpose is to create a better future to improve the lives of future generations. We accomplish this through the metals we produce, the way we do business and through our superior performance.
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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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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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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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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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In 2024, Implats was proud to become the first multi-metal producer to achieve certification under the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process Standard for its responsible sourcing of metals — PGMs, gold, silver, copper, nickel and cobalt.
Our actions to build a responsible mineral supply chain are driven by our values and purpose and supported by our code of ethics and the Group’s responsible sourcing of metals policy, which provides a robust framework to steer our counterparties in terms of our expectations.
The Group has an established responsible sourcing committee, chaired by the Group executive: marketing and refining, to conduct the necessary due diligence on mineral suppliers. The committee sits quarterly and reports directly to the Group Exco.
The Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) greylisting of South Africa as a country with higher risk of money laundering and terrorism financing requires that we conduct advanced due diligence on our South African counterparties, including but not limited to, screening of the entity and its board members for reports of financial crimes, reviews of audited financial statements, tax clearance certificates and on-the-ground due diligence audits for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD ) Annex II risks.
In 2024, we continued to meet all the requirements of the London Platinum and Palladium Market’s (LPPM’s) Responsible Platinum and Palladium Guidance and retained LPPM certification. The responsible sourcing committee also carried out on-the-ground due diligence audits of counterparties supplying cobalt-bearing materials, in line with the Responsible Minerals Initiative Standard, to establish the potential existence of OECD Annex II risks in our supply chain (including threats of torture, child or forced labour, gross human rights abuses, fraudulent misrepresentation of the origin of minerals and money laundering).
In parallel, an Exco-approved review was conducted of our responsible sourcing policy, to increase coverage beyond platinum and palladium supply chains and cover all the metals, including base metals, that we source and produce. Audits confirmed that there were no OECD Annex II risks in the Group’s supply chain.