Orbite Announces Changes to President and Chief Executive Officer Position and to its Board of Directors

MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Feb. 17, 2014) - The Board of Directors of Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT)(OTCQX:EORBF) ("Orbite" or the "Company") announced that Mr. Glenn Kelly, previously Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Richard Boudreault is stepping down from the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and has resigned as director of the Company effective immediately. Mr. Boudreault will remain available to the Company as a consultant for 6 months.

About Orbite

Orbite Aluminae Inc. is a Canadian cleantech company whose innovative and proprietary processes are expected to produce alumina and other high-value by-products, such as rare earth and rare metal oxides, at one of the lowest costs in the industry, and in a sustainable fashion, using feedstocks that include aluminous clay, kaolin, nepheline, bauxite, red mud and fly ash. Orbite is currently finalizing its first commercial high-purity alumina (HPA) production plant in Cap-Chat, Québec and has completed the basic engineering for a proposed smelter-grade alumina (SGA) production plant, which would use clay mined from its Grande-Vallée deposit. The Company's intellectual property portfolio contains 15 intellectual property families, and the Company owns the intellectual property rights to 11 patents and 57 pending patent applications in 10 different countries and regions. The first intellectual property family is patented in Canada, USA, Australia, China, and Russia. The Company also operates a state of the art technology development center in Laval, Quebec, where its technologies are developed and validated.

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