Congratulations to Aspiring Materials on the launch of their pilot plant! Paving the way to enabling localised production of critical minerals and essential materials in a sustainable way. #Cleantech #CriticalMinerals #InvestNZ
🥳 We’re officially operational! 🎊 And what a feeling it is for our team to go from beaker-sized science to this scale in just a little over 3 years. “Nothing short of an engineering marvel”, says our CEO Mark Chadderton. Last Friday, after beautiful karakia performed by kaumātua Henare Edwards earlier in the day to bless our new site, we welcomed guests to witness the all-important ribbon cutting, shared by Christopher Oze and Hon. Minister Shane Jones, to listen intently to welcome speeches before getting to do what they really came for – guided tours of our new pilot plant. The journey to this point has not been one we’ve done alone. From the design by DETA, Beca and Greenfern Dynamics, to the fabrication by Longveld, to the installation by Swarm Intelligence and PW Engineering, many hands have made light work of the build. We may have never made it past lab scale without the support of the grant funding we’ve received from Callaghan Innovation New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Ara Ake, PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator APAC and Breakthrough Energy as well as investment from Icehouse Ventures, Outset Ventures, Motion Capital, K1W1 and Elemental Impact. And we’re confident that our technology is like nothing else in the world, thanks to the expertise of the team at CreateIP. Our early supporters, like Megan Woods, The MacDiarmid Institute (Kevin Sheehy) James Shaw and Ministry of Awesome, were waving the #AspiringMaterials flag well before we were on the #NZcleantech map, and that vote of confidence has buoyed us during the challenging moments that every startup experiences. It’s been a huge team effort and we’re grateful to have such incredible partners to support us as we realise our ambitions. Last Friday was a celebration of what the team has achieved but also what opportunities now lie ahead for Aspiring Materials and for New Zealand. If you came along, thank you for your support. If you didn’t but want to understand more about how Aspiring Materials can help your operation with a local supply of high purity magnesium hydroxide, nickel:cobalt:manganese mixed hydroxide, reactive silica, or hydrogen, message us. Big thanks to Doug from The Records and Michael Kircher from Storylight for both capturing the moment in photo and footage (respectively). 👀 Keep watching! We’re gearing up to make critical minerals and essential materials our industries need every day, right here in New Zealand, without carbon or harmful waste. #cleantech #criticalminerals #economicresilience #newzealand Katherine Izumi Colum Rice Megan Danczyk, PhD Matthew Watson Simon Reid Edward Williams Dr. Jared Steven Elfie Halliday Anna Reid
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