SIBANYE CEO
SA risk puts carmakers off switching to platinum
20 February 2020 - 05:10
The prospect of increased exposure to SA’s political and economic risk is deterring carmakers from switching to platinum in their antipollution devices, despite a growing shortfall of palladium and rhodium, says Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman.
In the global platinum group metals (PGMs) industry, the question of if and when carmakers will substitute palladium with platinum is a pressing one that is posed to executives of producing companies...
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