BioniCCubE

The Board has approved a new fund, the “BioniCCube” to foster research and development of new innovation/technologies and market development, by investing in and leveraging strategic partnerships. This will support the company on its path to becoming a climate change resilient business and a leading supplier of green metals and energy solutions. BioniCCube will operate as a closed end fund, fully financed by Sibanye-Stillwater with a capital budget of up to 1.5% per annum of Group adjusted EBITDA for appropriate investments.

Two initial investments have been made by the Group:

Glint is a fintech company, based in London, Boulder (US) and Tokyo, that uses gold as an alternative global currency to enable its clients instantly to buy, sell, save, spend, and send their physical gold and other currencies, through the Glint Mastercard® and Glint App. Glint offers no credit facilities, it allows users to transfer, receive and save real gold, which is secured in Brink’s vaults in Switzerland. The partnership with Glint enables Sibanye-Stillwater to support new end markets for gold on an innovative, digital and highly regulated platform, backed by physical gold supervised by a world-class regulator in Switzerland glintpay.com

Verkor is a French industrial company that has the support of the Renault Group, Demeter, EIT InnoEnergy Groupe IDEC, Schneider Electric, Capgemini, Arkema and Tokai COBEX. Verkor intends to ramp up low-carbon battery manufacturing facilities in France and southern Europe to meet the growing demand for electric mobility and stationary battery storage in Europe. Verkor’s first Gigafactory will be built at the port city of Dunkirk (Hauts de France), with first delivery of low-carbon high performance batteries for electric vehicles planned for July 2025. Initial manufacturing capacity of 16 GWh in 2025 is expected to expand to 50 GWh by 2030. Sibanye-Stillwater has made a strategic EUR25 million investment in Verkor through a new convertible bond issuance. This strategic investment will pave the way for further technical and commercial cooperation between the Group and Verkor, with the timeline for the Keliber lithium project, the Sandouville extension to target specific nickel battery metal products and Verkor’s first Gigafactory largely in sync verkor.com

The global shift towards more socially and environmentally aware behaviours and policies continues to gain momentum, with emphasis on climate change. Future investment in and renewable energy and other green industrial activity is likely to support the prices of commodities required for the green energy economy, and those produced in an environmentally friendly manner over an extended period. In particular, this includes the essential metals that Sibanye-Stillwater produces and is targeting as we position ourselves to create sustainable value through further delivery on our green metals strategy.

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