Cost advantages

HYPERMEC catalysts for fuel cells are platinum free, offering immense cost advantages against the current platinum technology.

Platinum is:

• Expensive at over $30,000 per kg of metal ($15,000 on a 50% Pt/C catalyst)
• Volatile: the price is prone to sharp fluctuations and has more than doubled in the last six years
• Scarce: over 80% is mined in South Africa from deep mines. Increases in supply are hard to deliver and take time
• In demand: demand for Pt from car and lorry catalytic convertors is predicted to continue to grow strongly

HYPERMEC catalysts:

• Use a basket of metals costing at most $500 per kg of catalyst
• Use abundant metals
• Have a low metal loading - generally 4-10%

At a common platinum price of €20 per gramme, Acta has a gross margin of over 95%.