Isondo Precious Metals (IPM) is a majority black-owned PGM enterprise that has built South Africa’s first industrial-scale manufacturing facility for Platinum Group Metal (PGM) catalysts and Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs), the critical heart of fuel cells and electrolysers. Isondo Precious Metals (IPM) converts South Africa’s PGMs into high-value components—positioning the company at the center of the Global Green Hydrogen Economy. Leveraging South Africa’s dominant platinum reserves, IPM has built an integrated platform that beneficiates PGMs into Specialty Chemicals, High-Performance Catalyst, MEAs, and Fuel Cell & Electrolyser Stacks.
IPM has built a State-of-the-Art, industrial-scale manufacturing facility at the OR Tambo Special Economic Zone (SEZ), alongside the country’s largest airport in Johannesburg. This PGM beneficiation project, has been gazetted by the South African Parliament as a country Strategic Infrastructure Project (SIP) and represents, the first and clear country manifestation of intent in re-industrialising our economy based on the Green Hydrogen Opportunity.
Strong Government Support
SIP Status Obtained
Industrial Scale MEA and PGM Catalyst Production
Hydrogen Refuelling Station and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Deployment
The Advisory Board
IPM has a globally renowned advisory board and a world class technical team consisting of international and South African experts in the PGM and Hydrogen sectors. Our primary aim is to create desperately needed employment in South Africa and we have a well developed graduate intern program where young technical graduates are being trained by our technical experts in all aspects related to the green hydrogen economy.