Managing Director, Alpha HPA
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Alpha HPA's Gladstone plant is producing battery precursor chemicals weekly while it advances a $550m alumina facility; it also received a $14.85m federal manufacturing grant milestone payment in September.
Battery materials producer Alpha HPA advances its Gladstone precursor plant into alumina production, appoints two manufacturing general managers, and collects a further payment under its MMI-C grant, a tenth of which goes to Orica.
Alpha HPA's subsidiary Alpha Sapphire has struck a funding deal worth as much as $30m with QIC's minerals and battery technology fund to speed a sapphire production rollout in Gladstone.
Alpha HPA has received Queensland government support of up to $21.7 million for Stage 2 of its Gladstone high-purity alumina plant, adding to earlier federal grants of $15.5 million and $45 million.