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Overview
IperionX Limited aims to be a leading developer of sustainable critical metal and critical mineral supply chains in the United States, a mission we believe is important for the global transition towards a circular, low-carbon, resource-efficient green economy.
IperionX holds an exclusive option to acquire the intellectual property rights to certain titanium processing technologies (the “Technologies”) with the potential to reduce the cost and carbon emissions of titanium metal production relative to what is commercially available today. With the Technologies, we believe that we could enable the widespread use of titanium and possibly displace metals like stainless steel and aluminum which typically have lower strength-to-weight ratios, lower levels of corrosion resistance and lower levels of sustainability. The Technologies have the potential to be a high quality and lower carbon intensity process of producing titanium and have shown the potential to be applied to other critical minerals and metals as well.
We believe the Technologies offer IperionX the potential to develop a U.S. end-to-end titanium metal production supply chain, with improved sustainability, and at lower cost and carbon emissions relative to what is commercially available today. This high-quality titanium can potentially substitute for stainless steel and aluminum in a wide variety of applications.
Our immediate focus is on the commercialization and scale-up of the Technologies to potentially re-shore a domestic titanium metal supply chain in North America. The Technologies can utilize either titanium metal scrap as feedstock, allowing for a circular titanium process, or raw titanium minerals. IperionX has plans to construct our first commercial scale titanium metal powder production facility (“Titanium Demonstration Facility” or “TDF”) in Halifax County, Virginia.
To facilitate such commercialization, IperionX has entered into a conditional agreement to negotiate a large, long-term titanium scrap supply and tolling agreement with a major titanium scrap processer. We have also secured a large source of titanium and other critical minerals, including rare earth elements, through mineral rights at our wholly-owned Titan critical minerals project (the “Titan Project” or the “Project”) in Tennessee, which covers over 11,000 acres of critical mineral properties in Tennessee. IperionX has the potential to source titanium minerals from the Titan Project as a feedstock for the Technologies in the future.
On June 30, 2022, we reported the results of our initial assessment for the Titan Project (the “Initial Assessment”), which described the Titan Project’s potential to be a sustainable, low-cost and globally significant producer of titanium, rare earths and zircon minerals needed for advanced U.S. industries such as space, aerospace, hydrogen production, fuel cells, electric vehicles and 3D printing, as well as critical defense applications.
Our ordinary shares are publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the symbol “IPX”. Our ADSs, each representing 10 of our ordinary shares, are publicly traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “IPX”. The Bank of New York Mellon, acting as depositary, registers and delivers the ADSs.
Corporate Information
Our head office is located at 129 West Trade Street, Suite 1405, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, United States. Our registered office is located at 28 The Esplanade, Level 9, Perth WA 6000, Australia. The telephone number of our registered office is +(61) 8-9322-6322.
We also maintain a website at www.iperionx.com. The information contained on our website or available through our website is not incorporated by reference into and should not be considered a part of this prospectus, and the reference to our website in this prospectus is an inactive textual reference only.