Products
Built Around Strategic Materials
Fodere's development focus includes titanium, vanadium and iron, together with aluminium recovery from suitable feedstocks. Final product form, specification and suitability for an end market depend on feedstock-specific testwork and product qualification.
Titanium (Ti)
Titanium is valued for its high strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance, making it important in aerospace, chemical processing, marine applications and medical uses. Titanium dioxide is also widely used as a white pigment in coatings, plastics and paper.
Why It Matters
Titanium sits at the intersection of performance materials and industrial scale demand. For Fodere, it represents an important opportunity where processing innovation can help unlock value from complex mineral systems and secondary resources.
Fodere Relevance
Fodere's processing platform is being developed to support titanium recovery and upgrading from complex feedstocks, including concentrates, whole ores, slags and tailings.
- Critical to aerospace and corrosion-resistant applications
- Relevant to pigment and specialty materials markets
- Strong fit where conventional routes struggle with complex mineralogy
Vanadium (V₂O₅)
Vanadium is used primarily as an alloying element in iron and steel, where it improves strength and performance. Major non-metallurgical uses include catalysts, and vanadium also has growing relevance in vanadium redox flow batteries for large-scale energy storage.
Why It Matters
Vanadium links traditional heavy industry with emerging energy infrastructure. It remains deeply relevant to steelmaking while also offering exposure to grid-scale storage technologies.
Fodere Relevance
For Fodere, vanadium is a strategic product focus where improved treatment of complex ores, slags or tailings could create both economic and supply-chain value.
- Dominant use in iron and steel alloys
- Important role in catalysts
- Relevant to long-duration energy storage
Niobium (Nb)
Niobium is mainly consumed in steels and superalloys. It is especially valued in high-strength low-alloy steels and aerospace-related applications where strength, heat resistance and performance matter.
Why It Matters
A relatively small addition of niobium can materially improve steel performance, which is why it matters in pipelines, structural steels, transport applications and high-performance alloys.
Fodere Relevance
Niobium is a feedstock-specific development opportunity for Fodere, not established commercial output. Where niobium occurs alongside other strategic elements, its recovery can be assessed through feedstock-specific testwork.
- Used mostly in steels and superalloys
- Relevant to aerospace and advanced industrial alloys
- High-value target in complex polymetallic systems
Alumina (Al₂O₃)
Alumina is the main feedstock for aluminium metal production and also serves broad industrial markets including abrasives, refractories, cement, ceramics and chemicals.
Why It Matters
Alumina matters both as a strategic industrial material in its own right and as the gateway to aluminium supply chains. It has broad industrial relevance beyond primary smelting.
Fodere Relevance
Aluminium recovery from suitable feedstocks is part of Fodere's development focus, particularly complex alumina-bearing ores, residues and waste streams where conventional economics may be challenged by impurity profile or feed complexity.
- Foundation material for aluminium supply chains
- Also used in refractories, abrasives and chemicals
- Strong fit with residue-focused processing strategies
Rare Earths (REE)
Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of technologies, including permanent magnets, catalysts, ceramics, glass and metallurgy. Magnet applications are especially important in clean energy, defence, electronics and advanced motor systems.
Why It Matters
Rare earths are strategically important because they sit deep inside modern industrial systems, from EV motors and wind turbines to electronics and defence technologies.
Fodere Relevance
Rare earths are a feedstock-specific development opportunity for Fodere, not established commercial output. Where they occur in complex or low-priority resources, a flexible processing route may create pathways to recovery, subject to testwork.
- Used in magnets, catalysts, ceramics and glass
- Important to clean energy and advanced manufacturing
- Strategic relevance tied to concentrated supply chains
One Platform, Multiple Strategic Materials
Fodere's development focus reflects the direction of modern industry. Titanium, vanadium, niobium, alumina and rare earths each serve distinct markets, but all are tied to the same larger themes of supply-chain resilience, advanced manufacturing, energy transition, defence capability, circular resource recovery and better use of complex ores and industrial residues.
From Feedstock to Commercial Pathway
Fodere works with partners seeking to assess complex mineral resources and difficult processing opportunities, from early technical review through to pilot planning and prototype-scale validation.
Feedstock Review
Technical screening and resource assessment
Metallurgical Testwork
Process assessment and optimisation studies
Pilot Planning
Pilot programme design and execution
Prototype Plant
Planned step between pilot work and commercial scale
Strategic Partnerships
Supply, investment and co-development discussions