PyroGenesis Canada Inc. announced that it has received the second progress payment under a previously announced CAD 8.3 million contract with HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. to provide a 200 metric tonne per year PUREVAP pilot system to produce silicon metal directly from quartz. To date, PyroGenesis has received over CAD 2,862,000, or more than 34% of the value of the contract. As announced on August 2, 2016, the contract is for the design, fabrication, assembly, commissioning and testing of the system. Currently the design, fabrication and assembly phase of which there remains approximately CAD 2.6 million to be paid subject to certain milestones CAD 520,000 in payments are due during the commissioning phase, with an additional CAD 2.3 million to be paid following various milestones during the testing phase.