Turning Complex Materials into High-Purity Rare Earth Products

Heavy rare earth elements are among the most strategically important materials in the global supply chain. Elements such as dysprosium and terbium are essential to high-performance permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, wind turbines, defense systems, aerospace applications, and advanced manufacturing technologies.

Compared to light rare earth elements, heavy rare earths are less abundant, more difficult to separate, and significantly more constrained from a supply perspective. In many applications, there are no viable substitutes for their performance characteristics.

Rare earth elements have very similar chemical properties, making separation one of the most technically demanding stages of the rare earth supply chain. Heavy rare earth elements are particularly challenging because their chemical characteristics are even more closely related, requiring advanced separation techniques and precise process control to produce high-purity materials.

The purity requirements for rare earth products vary by application, with high-performance technologies often requiring exceptionally high purity levels to ensure reliability, consistency, and performance. United Rare Earths is developing its processing platform to produce high-purity rare earth products tailored to application-specific requirements, including products with purity levels up to 99.9%+.

URE is feedstock-agnostic by design. Our platform is engineered to accept mixed rare earth concentrates from mining operations, intermediate products from other processors, and end-of-life permanent magnets for recycling. This flexibility enables United Rare Earths to process a broad range of feedstock sources, supporting both primary and recycled supply streams while creating a more resilient and adaptable rare earth supply chain.

Spent NdFeB permanent magnets from electric vehicles, wind turbines, and industrial equipment contain valuable concentrations of rare earth elements, including dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium. Our recycling process is designed to recover these materials and return them to the supply chain as individual high-purity rare earth products. By integrating recycling with separation and refining, United Rare Earths supports a more flexible, resilient, and sustainable source of rare earth materials.

United Rare Earths is advancing the development of a heavy rare earth processing and recycling platform focused on separation, refining, and material recovery. The company has licensed advanced rare earth processing and magnet technologies, is collaborating with technology partners on process integration and scale-up, and continues to build the technical, commercial, and operational foundations required for deployment. Site development, strategic partnerships, process integration, and commercialization activities are advancing in parallel as the company progresses toward future operations.