From NSGI Steel: (FNC Manager Enrico Di'Cesare's Company) "We are pleased to announce new patent filings covering pig iron, ferro alloys (such as ferro nickel, ferro vanadium, ferro manganese, etc,). The unique furnace design can be built to produce 10,000 to 500,000 tons of molten metal. Main principles of the design are self reducing briquettes and hot blast melting. Additional benefits are complements to the non ferrous industry and recovery of critical elements."

From NSGI VP Ian Cox: "NSGI is pleased to announce our latest patent application; utilising our expertise in both pyro and hydro metallurgy we have developed a new approach for the production of iron and ferro-alloys required for steelmaking using conventional iron sources and iron bearing wastes from other metallurgical processes and the recovery of strategic elements from the resulting slags using standard hydro metallurgy processes, with ability to self supply all of the necessary energy required for the hydro-metallurgical steps with the waste gas/energy from the primary ore smelting furnace. The combination of pyro and hydro metallurgical techniques allows us to produce cost effective products required for steelmaking as well as recover high value strategic metals with minimal environmental impact."