Products
Built Around Strategic Materials
Global industry needs reliable, scalable and increasingly sustainable sources of critical minerals. Fodere's focus is on materials that matter to aerospace, steelmaking, batteries, advanced ceramics, electronics, catalysts, magnets and industrial manufacturing.
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 fits Fodere's strategy of targeting high-value materials from difficult feedstocks. Where niobium occurs alongside other strategic elements, process flexibility becomes especially important.
- 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
For Fodere, alumina represents a major opportunity in processing 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 align with Fodere's focus on difficult-to-process, high-strategic-value materials. Where they occur in complex or low-priority resources, a flexible processing route may create new pathways to recovery and upgrading.
- 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 product 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 pre-commercial deployment.
Feedstock Review
Technical screening and resource assessment
Metallurgical Testwork
Process assessment and optimisation studies
Pilot Planning
Pilot programme design and execution
Pre-Commercial Deployment
Pathway from pilot to operational scale
Strategic Partnerships
Supply, investment and co-development discussions