Cementation, “no it’s not over”!

Speaker:  Guillaume Lefort, Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Cleanmetals SA

Abstract:  No easily recoverable metals should be left behind. We must look to both disruptive new technologies as well as optimisation of existing processes to maximise value and efficiency in the overall mining chain. To accomplish this, we need to play the long game and not rely on short-term, cash-flow driven decision making.

Bio:  Guillaume, a business graduate, had been successful in the financial and real estate industry, but was never satisfied with the impact his ventures had. He wanted to do something more meaningful. While looking at several business opportunities, he encountered an optimised cementation technology for recovering metals from wastewater, which is the topic of todays’ presentation. This, he believed, had interesting applications for metal recovery as compared to any existing technical offerings. Guillaume believes that improvements in the way industries think and work need to be initiated by external actors. He holds the belief that we know most of what we need to know with regards to the sciences, but that it is by doing things differently and in a holistic manner that we will make a difference. To that extent he does believe that biomimicry is essential to all future technological evolutions; and indeed, Cleanmetal's optimised cementation reactors are only an accelerated, optimised and dynamic version of well-understood natural processes.

This seminar will be presented by Webinar only