RE: Another big afterhours buy14 Mar 2024 13:01
A TFS license takes about 12 weeks to get.
When a company applies for the TFS license you need to know the final destination as it is viewed by the EU as a hazardous material. When they say final destination, that means the actual plant it’s going to - and that plant will be owned by a company.
They started the process, but, either at the end of December or early January, the customer changed the delivery location to a new plant, so a new TFS process started . Therefore, the TFS for destination number 2 will be close - maybe 1-3 weeks, it’s not set in stone how long the permit takes. However, the get the permit for the plant which will be much more arduous than a shipping permit. You don’t apply for a TFS license to allow you to ship anywhere - it’s a license per location. I beleive the rules may even be a bit more complicated than that, but for simple reference assume 1 deliver location per TFS.
So, the important take-away from this is that the customer will be a large company, as they have more than one black-mass refining facility. These cost upwards of £80m to build, so the customer will be a large name. We aren’t talking about a company with less than £1bln mcap here and probably much higher, so it will be a well-known industry name.