Alpha HPA Limited announced that it has received an initial payment of $2.475 million including GST under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative - Collaboration Stream (`MMI-C') from the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Resources. This follows the execution by the Company of a grant agreement with the Department of Industry. The total amount of the MMI-C grant is $45 million, which was initially announced by the Company on 16 March 2022.

The MMI-C grant will be applied toward the capital expenditure of the full-scale HPA First Project. Alpha was the lead applicant, with the grant application supported by Orica Ltd. (`Orica') as joint applicant. 10% of the grant proceeds will flow to Orica to offset their capital expenditure required to support the HPA First Project.