In an announcement to Mining Weekly from Brussels on Tuesday January 20, South Africa’s Simon Baloyi, the CEO of Sasol, and South Africa's Craig Miller, the CEO of Valterra Platinum, featured prominently as board members of the Hydrogen Council, which is one of the world’s biggest CEOs-only alliances and which is now strongly emphasising the take-off of its next big delivery phase. In the words of Hydrogen Council co-chair Jaehoon Chang, who is also vice-chair of Hyundai Motor Group, “we stand at a pivotal moment for the scale-up of the hydrogen industry”, while second co-chair François Jackow, who is also CEO of Air Liquide, declared the words “lead, build, and deliver" as the council’s new mandate.