Galliford Try (LSE:GFRD) CFO Kris Hampson joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion to discuss the company's full-year 2026 trading update, with adjusted profit before tax expected to reach the top end of market expectations at £53 million on revenue growth of approximately 3%.

Hampson attributed the performance to disciplined project selection, strong execution, improved commercial terms and a growing contribution from higher-margin specialist businesses. "Our adjusted profit before tax will be at the top end of market expectations, or £53 million, well ahead of the revenue growth, which is exactly the story that we want to be telling," he said.

Average monthly cash rose 21% during the year, with the company carrying no drawn bank debt or pension liabilities. Capital allocation included nearly £20 million in dividends, a £10 million share buyback and the acquisition of Nene Valley Fire, which is trading ahead of pre-acquisition expectations.

Looking ahead, the order book has grown approximately 5% to £4.3 billion, with around 90% of its higher 2027 revenue target already secured. Key growth areas include AMP8 water investment, energy, defence, custodial construction and affordable housing.

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Blockmate Ventures Inc (TSX-V:MATE, OTCQB:MATEF, FRA:8MH) chairman Domenic Carosa joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion to discuss the company's C$1 million capital raise and plans for its Wyoming AI Data Center project.

Carosa said the funds will advance the proposed facility towards "shovel-ready" status over the next six to twelve months, with directors participating in 29% of the raise — a sign, he said, of the group's conviction in the project. The site covers approximately 100 acres, with zoning work underway with the local city as a key near-term milestone.

The company is in discussions with potential partners, including hyperscalers and neoclouds, who could take over the facility post-construction. "Our objective over the next 6 to 12 months is to get at what is called shovel-ready," Carosa said.

Following a Vancouver roadshow and with Toronto meetings ahead, Carosa acknowledged the company needs to communicate its story more actively in 2026 after a quieter 2025. The speed of the raise, he said, reflects growing investor interest — with the focus now firmly on execution.

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Solis Minerals CEO Mitch Thomas talked with Proactive about the start of diamond drilling at the company’s wholly owned Mandacaru Lithium Project in Brazil and the exploration milestones expected across its wider portfolio.

Thomas said Solis Minerals had moved quickly from acquiring the Brazilian project package to beginning drilling, with the company now testing what it considers its highest-priority lithium target. The initial campaign comprises approximately 10 diamond drill holes for a total of 2,000 metres.

The program is targeting an approximately 800-metre-long lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatite corridor identified at surface. Drilling is designed to assess the continuity and geometry of the pegmatites and determine whether the system hosts spodumene mineralisation at depth.

Discussing the pace of activity, Thomas said: “We’ve gone from acquisition to starting drilling” in a little over two months.

Alongside the Brazilian campaign, Solis Minerals is preparing to restart copper exploration in Peru. The company holds the drill-ready Cinto Copper Project outright and can earn up to 100% of the Cucho Copper Project. Government approvals required to drill both projects have been received.

Thomas said the company intended to create multiple opportunities for exploration success by advancing lithium drilling in Brazil while progressing copper targets in Peru. He also highlighted the company’s funding position and the expected flow of exploration updates during the second half of the year.

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Recce Pharmaceuticals Ltd CEO James Graham talked with Proactive about the company’s strengthened intellectual property position in Southeast Asia following the grant of a Vietnamese patent covering its RECCE® 327 and RECCE® 529 synthetic anti-infective candidates.

The Family 4 patent, granted by the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam, provides protection until 2041 and represents the eighth patent secured by Recce Pharmaceuticals within this patent family. Graham explained that the patent covers the preparation and manufacture of the company’s compounds, as well as the use of R327 and R529 in the treatment of bacterial, viral and other infectious diseases.

Discussing the significance of the award, Graham said the patent was “very significant because it takes our market monopolies out to 2041”.

Graham also outlined why Vietnam is strategically important within the broader ASEAN market. He pointed to the prevalence of diabetes in the region, the associated incidence of diabetic foot ulcers and the high proportion of those ulcers that become infected. He also discussed antimicrobial resistance and the lack of an established standard of care in some regional markets.

Recce Pharmaceuticals is currently progressing two Phase 3 clinical programs, including a study in Indonesia and a study being conducted across Australian teaching hospitals. Graham said the Indonesian program is intended to support regional commercialisation, while the Australian study is being conducted to US Food and Drug Administration standards.

He also discussed the company’s licensing activities, including a term sheet with a Middle Eastern pharmaceutical company covering multiple countries, as well as the deployment of recently raised funds across clinical, regulatory and licensing work.

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Kingfisher Mining Ltd managing director Chris Bittar talked with Proactive about the latest high-grade copper-gold drilling results from the company’s Copper Blow project near Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Reverse circulation drilling in the project’s North Zone returned a standout intersection of 26 metres at 2.57% copper and 0.75 g/t gold from 73 metres. This included 13 metres at 4.07% copper and 1.20 g/t gold, with a higher-grade interval of 4 metres at 7.06% copper and 2.38 g/t gold.

A second drill hole intersected 43 metres at 1.32% copper and 0.32 g/t gold from surface, including 17 metres at 2.46% copper and 0.60 g/t gold from 16 metres.

Bittar said the company was “very excited and very encouraged by these results”, highlighting the shallow, broad and continuous nature of the mineralised zones. He said the higher-grade sections were particularly important as Kingfisher Mining works towards a maiden mineral resource estimate for Copper Blow.

The company plans to incorporate the latest results into its geological model and prepare for another drilling program combining reverse circulation and diamond drilling. Diamond core is expected to support metallurgical test work on the oxide, transitional and sulphide mineralisation identified at the project.

Beyond the current mineralised envelope, geophysical targeting has identified additional anomalies along a largely untested four-kilometre magnetic trend, providing further exploration potential once the initial resource work is completed.

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American Resources Corp CFO Kirk Taylor joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's $25 million investment from the U.S. Department of War's Economic Defense Unit, in partnership with the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, to expand domestic critical mineral refining at ReElement Technologies' Marion, Indiana campus.

Taylor said the funding will support the installation of additional refining equipment, new production lines, and working capital to accelerate commercial production of high-purity rare earth elements and defense-critical minerals.

The expanded facility will process both primary and recycled feedstocks, including end-of-life permanent magnets, to produce high-purity rare earth oxides and specialty materials such as yttrium, gadolinium, germanium, and gallium for applications in defense, aerospace, semiconductors, advanced communications, and other strategic industries.

“This investment reflects the growing importance of secure, domestic refining capacity to America's national security and industrial resilience,” Taylor said.

Unlike traditional refining operations that rely on a single mine or feedstock source, ReElement has developed a refining-first platform capable of processing a wide range of primary and recycled materials. Its modular design allows production capacity to expand alongside customer demand while reducing reliance on any single upstream resource or geographic region.

The company's proprietary chromatographic separation technology is designed to economically separate and refine multiple critical minerals to purities ranging from approximately 99.5% to 99.999%, supporting diverse supply chains through a common refining infrastructure.

Management believes the government investment significantly strengthens ReElement's role in building a secure domestic supply chain for critical minerals while supporting U.S. industrial resilience and national security.

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Apptley Health Technologies CEO Dr. Paula Muto joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's direct-pay healthcare marketplace, nationwide physician network, and recently announced partnership with Emphera Health.

Formerly known as Uber Doc, Apptly has built a platform that enables patients to quickly find nearby physicians and book appointments using a transparent cash-pay model, helping improve access to specialty and definitive care outside the traditional insurance system.

“We just need to get a patient in front of a physician that is specialized and learned to be able to solve their problem,” Muto said.

What began as a small network of physicians has expanded to all 50 U.S. states and now spans every medical specialty. Muto said the marketplace promotes faster access to care while giving patients greater price transparency and more healthcare choices.

The interview also highlighted Apptly's recent Canadian Securities Exchange listing under the ticker APPT, which management believes will increase the company's visibility, improve access to capital, and support future expansion into U.S. public markets.

Apptly's new partnership with Emphera Health is expected to connect its physician marketplace with employer-sponsored and self-insured healthcare plans, helping employees locate specialist care while providing employers with greater cost transparency. Patients requiring surgery can also transition into Emphera's bundled-price outpatient surgical network.

Muto said the partnership could add thousands of physicians to Apptly's growing network, while additional doctors are expected to join through the company's existing occupational health relationships.

Looking ahead, Apptly is exploring opportunities to expand its marketplace into emerging healthcare segments including longevity, diagnostics, and therapeutics, further broadening its technology-enabled healthcare platform.

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Standard Uranium Vice President of Exploration Sean Hillacre joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss encouraging geochemical assay results from the company's winter 2026 drill program at the Corvo Uranium Project in northeastern Saskatchewan.

Hillacre said the inaugural drilling campaign identified anomalous uranium, boron, and other key pathfinder elements across multiple target areas, supporting the presence of a basement-hosted uranium system. The program also intersected elevated rare earth elements in drill hole CRV-26-009, with total rare earth oxide plus yttrium concentrations exceeding 0.1%.

The Corvo Project is currently under a three-year earn-in agreement with Aventis Energy. During the winter campaign, the partners completed 2,457 metres of drilling across 10 reconnaissance holes at the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Tribeca target areas.

Hillacre said intersecting uranium mineralization during the first drilling program on the property since 1979 represents a significant validation of the company's exploration model.

The company is now integrating assay results with geological logging and geophysical data to prioritize follow-up drilling and refine exploration targets.

Management believes Corvo is highly prospective for shallow, high-grade basement-hosted uranium mineralization similar to the nearby Rabbit Lake, GMZ, and Ackio discoveries. The project contains more than 29 kilometres of prospective structural corridors with numerous untested drill targets beneath only thin glacial cover.

Standard Uranium and Aventis plan to use the results from the 2026 program to guide future exploration campaigns as they continue advancing Corvo toward a potential uranium discovery.

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Oceanic Iron Ore CEO Chris Batalha joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's Hopes Advance iron ore project in Nunavik, northern Quebec, highlighting its logistical advantages, high-grade product, and ongoing development work.

Batalha said the project is located just 25 kilometres from tidewater, providing a potential cost advantage over many iron ore operations that rely on transporting ore hundreds of kilometres by rail. He noted that transportation is one of the largest cost components for iron ore producers, making Hopes Advance's coastal location a key competitive strength.

“We are high grade, we have 66.6% concentrate. We have low impurities,” Batalha said.

He added that the project currently has an estimated 28-year mine life, with the potential for further expansion based on the extensive mineralization already identified.

The interview also highlighted metallurgical test work indicating the project's premium iron concentrate could be suitable for both traditional blast furnace steelmaking and emerging low-carbon green steel production processes. Management believes the combination of high grade and low impurity levels could command a premium in future markets.

Oceanic is continuing baseline environmental studies while advancing a new Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS), expected to be completed in the fourth quarter, which will update the project's economics based on the latest technical work.

Batalha also discussed efforts to strengthen the company's leadership team and highlighted how Hopes Advance aligns with Canadian and Quebec priorities surrounding critical minerals, northern infrastructure, and domestic resource development.

Management believes the project's location, product quality, and long mine life position Hopes Advance as a strategically important iron ore development opportunity for North American and global steel markets.

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Bango Plc. Chief Financial Officer Matt Wilson joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s strong first-half performance, highlighting growth in recurring revenue, improving profitability, and confidence in meeting full-year market expectations.

Wilson said annual recurring revenue (ARR) increased 31% to $20.4 million for the six months ended June 30, up from $15.6 million a year earlier. Subscription revenue also rose 13% to $12.3 million, while net revenue retention reached 119%, reflecting strong expansion among existing customers.

The company generated Cash EBITDA of $3.7 million during the first half, exceeding the $2.3 million delivered during the entire 2025 financial year. Bango now expects Adjusted EBITDA of at least $9 million for the full year, representing a 34% increase over 2025, driven by higher-quality revenue and operational efficiencies.

Total revenue is expected to increase 3% to $25.9 million, in line with management guidance. Bango also added six new subscription customers during the period, including three signed contracts and one deal carried over from late 2025.

Payments revenue declined 5% to $13.6 million, reflecting the company’s planned strategy of restructuring legacy payment routes to prioritize higher-margin, higher-quality revenue.

Net debt improved to $8.7 million at the end of June, down from $9.2 million at the end of December.

Wilson added that growing adoption of the Bango Digital Vending Machine platform by global brands, financial institutions, and telecommunications companies reinforces management’s confidence in the platform’s long-term growth potential and the company’s strategy of expanding recurring, subscription-based revenue.

The company also added to its board with with Darcy Antonellis becoming non-executive chair and Duncan Magrath joining as audit committee chair.

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