Mag One Products Inc. has appointed four strategic members to its advisory board based on their experience with Mg and the light metals industries. Two of these members are from industry, while the others are from academia and applied research. Robert R. Odle, Ph.D., an extractive metallurgist with 40 years of experience in non-ferrous metals, has high expertise in Mg production and will act as a technical advisor to Mag One.

Dr. Odle was the lead process design engineer with Fluor for the Australian Magnesium Project when the pilot plant was being constructed and the design and cost estimate for the commercial plant was being finalized. In the last decade he has worked in hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical process development for both start-ups and established companies, and has helped clients obtain about a dozen patents. Dr. Odle has assisted in the design and construction of several pilot plants and while at Flour worked on projects that were capitalized up to $1 billion.

David Dreisinger, Ph.D., holds the position of Professor and Chairholder of the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy at the University of British Columbia which is sponsored by 18 international companies. Dr. Dreisinger will act as a technical and strategic advisor to Mag One. Dr. Dreisinger is a director of PolyMet Mining and Search Minerals, and an officer of Baja Mining and Tri Metals Mining.

Mr. Uri Z. Ben-Noon, an economics graduate with over 40 years of professional experience, will act as a strategic advisor to Mag One. Mr. Ben-Noon was formerly CEO of Dead Sea Works Ltd. (a division of ICL). He was the CEO of the Israel Electric Company and the Chairman of Orta, as well as the Chairman of several environmental and energy technology companies.

Donald A. Palmer, Ph.D., a world renowned expert in physical inorganic chemistry with over 40 years of professional experience, will act as a technical advisor to Mag One. He has worked at several universities in Australia and the U.S., and spent 27 years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where-among many other research activities-he worked with Dr. James Blencoe, Mag One's co-founder, to develop new Mg production technologies.