"The 'commercial plant' doesn't work at anywhere near the rate...

"The 'commercial plant' doesn't work at anywhere near the rate the pilot plant was supposed to, let alone what it was supposed to."

I remember the days when if any other company produced anything at all (DLE method comes to mind), the same suspects here would yell that it was only tiny quantities and that they couldn't do it on scale... The irony that they've described AGY right now. ~67t from a 2ktpa is 3.35% in over 12 months. I would call that demonstration levels produced, in a plant needing to be capable of almost 30 times that.

They may need another few years minimum to get to nameplate, pending ramp up snow-balls eventually. We'll have to see what further progress they've made next week. The cheer squad don't have to worry though, another few years to 2ktpa nameplate is nothing 'in the scheme of things' and all

GLTA