Innovation - Materials of the Future
Dr. Dion Vaughan, CEO, Metalysis
At Should Miners Adopt a Silicon Valley Mindset?
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Speaker’s Biography
Dr. Dion Vaughan has been involved in Metalysis’ story since 2003 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2013. Dion is a metallurgist and has worked across the metals, mining and investment sectors for over 25 years. He has held commercial positions with Sheffield Forgemasters, Johnson Matthey and BP. He also has extensive corporate finance experience gained at JP Morgan and Robert Fleming. Dion has a PhD in Materials Science from Queen Mary University of London.
Need to know
Metalysis’ solid-state, electrochemical metal powder technology is lower-cost and more environmentally friendly than traditional melting production methods. It began with a discovery at the University of Cambridge and today produces a huge range of metals and alloys at industrial scale; generating high margins from end-users in metal 3Dprinting aerospace and automotive applications. Metalysis’ Generation 4 (“Gen4”) technological expansion will complete in 2017, delivering hundreds of tonnes’ annualised production capacity. The next modular expansion stage, “Gen5”, will present distributed manufacturing options for thousands of tonnes. Metalysis is based in South Yorkshire and supported by global shareholders including BHP, Iluka Resources and Woodford Funds.