RE: More progress3 Sep 2024 09:36
The Agreement
As part of the Agreement, Maginito will assist Inserma with marketing Inserma products and technologies internationally by introducing Inserma to potential customers with whom Maginito is engaging for scrap feed supply, including major hyperscale data centre providers, shredding companies and other potential customers. Furthermore, Maginito will assist with arranging funding, where required, for R&D prototypes, demonstration and commercial plants for deployment internationally, including the initial purchase within the next 12 months by HyProMag, HyProMag GmbH and HyProMag USA LLC ("HyProMag USA") of three HDD pre-processing units ("Inserma Processing Units") for Germany (delivered), the UK and the United States at a cost of approximately 40 thousand Euros per unit.
Inserma will work exclusively with Maginito in the field of rare earths, and Maginito will work exclusively with Inserma in the field of pre-processing solutions for HDDs, loudspeakers and certain aspects of magnet recovery from electric motors, subject to Inserma's continued ongoing support during commissioning, operation and product development of respective pre-processing units, and to achieving certain technical milestones validated by continuous commercial tests at facilities of HyProMag, HyProMag GmbH and HyProMag USA.
Maginito will receive an automatic sub-licence for Inserma intellectual property developed to date in relation to rare earth magnet recovery at zero cost for the period of the Agreement, being two years, automatically extended thereafter for six month periods.
Both Maginito and Inserma will work together to implement the business model for commercialisation, scale-up and international roll-out of the Inserma technologies in parallel with HyProMag technologies, including:
· Joint marketing of pre-processing units for magnet recovery globally;
· Inserma builds, installs, sells or leases the unit to Maginito/HyProMag or to a third party customer;
· Inserma provides technical support to commission and maintain the unit; and
· Maginito has the exclusive offtake rights for pre-processed scrap from the customer.
Step-by-step, and seemingly with the market still oblivious to it, MKA are assembling a warchest of IP and IQ points in the rare earths recycling sector - note the two-year IP swap above - someone thinks a buyout is on the cards.