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Critical Resources has completed 65 cycles across more than a month in a full-format pouch cell using its solvent-free DSD cathode matrix. The cell retained about 75% of its starting capacity, offering a useful engineering baseline but not yet a commercial performance result.

Metcash delivered $558 million of operating cash flow and 2.8% ex-tobacco sales growth in the first 18 weeks of FY27, but warned that cost inflation, adverse sales mix and tobacco changes will weigh on first-half earnings. The group also expects to spend a further $18 million to $20 million on its Horizon technology program.

KTEK Aerosystems has secured a US$172,500 turnkey contract to design, tool and manufacture two composite prototypes for Israel-based Vestal Technology. The work adds a new customer, but any production beyond the prototypes remains uncertain.

Greenvale Energy is expanding the final phase of Alpha Test Program 7 after Technix failed to produce a compliant C-170 paving-grade binder. SAMI Bitumen Technologies will now test conventional bitumen blending and additive-based formulations, with results expected from a six to eight-week laboratory program.

Livium says lithium-ion battery collections in the first two months of FY27 have already surpassed every quarter of FY26, led by 77 tonnes received under its Sell & Parker agreement. The company is also moving towards due diligence with a potential multinational partner for VSPC, while extending its A$0.0082-per-share SPP.

Viridis Mining and Minerals has secured approval for a R$77.5 million BNDES financing facility, reducing the estimated senior debt still required for its Colossus rare earth project to about US$280 million. The 16-year facility carries an indicative current cost of approximately 4.8% and supports the project’s Brazilian processing and research infrastructure.

Mount Ridley Mines has told ASX it holds no unreleased exploration results that explain its share price rise, while confirming three testwork programs remain in progress. The company also disclosed that an institutional investor had approached it about participating in its current capital raising.

Encore Minerals has approved development of the Windarra Tailings Project, triggering a $400,000 payment to Maritana Minerals and preserving the company’s exposure to future gold production through royalties. Encore will carry the project’s development and operating costs, although key execution milestones remain ahead.

Sunrise Energy Metals has put its Syerston scandium project on a stronger financial footing, ending FY2026 with A$115.4 million in cash and a conditional US$400 million debt commitment. The project still faces a decisive sequence of tests: final investment approval, binding offtake agreements, financing conditions and construction execution.

Activeport says revenue across Software, Network and Services is tracking above FY26 average levels in the opening quarter, while a completed restructure has cut annualised costs by $2 million. Underlying quarterly cash consumption is also reported to be 34% lower, although the company has not disclosed absolute revenue or cash figures.

RemSense has secured two new awards to deploy its virtualplant technology across Woodside-operated offshore platforms in Bass Strait, taking its Australian footprint with the energy major to ten assets. The work begins with site mobilisation this month, but the filing leaves contract margins and revenue timing undisclosed.

Clever Culture Systems secures a follow-up order from Novo Nordisk for two APAS Independence instruments, marking a critical step toward broader global deployment and signalling expected sales growth from FY27.