High-flying Amplats sets ‘next wave of strategy’ in motion

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), which shot the lights out with a set of stupendous cash-splurging, debt-negating, high-dividend-yielding 2018 results, on Monday set its “next new wave of strategy” in motion, which involves extracting the full potential from its operations through people and innovation, investing in its own portfolio to deliver industry-leading cash flows and investing in the development of the market to increase demand. The word ‘platinum’ on its own is ‘out’ and the ‘in’ are the words platinum-group metals (PGMs) as a collective, because of the rhodium, palladium and even ruthenium contributions, which helped to generate free annual cash flow of R5.6-billion.