The research and innovation that builds the value chain: exploring, recovering and recycling rare earths, then turning them into sustainable permanent magnets and electric machines.
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University of Oulu 🇫🇮
Novel technologies for exploration & primary production
Finds and unlocks new European sources of rare earths, applying advanced exploration tools and developing cost- and energy-efficient ways to process REE minerals – backed by sustainability analysis and geo-traceability.
Key outputsMineral beneficiationHydrometallurgyGeo-traceability system
Rare earths from side streams
Recovers rare earths from industrial and mining side streams that would otherwise be wasted – developing new materials and processes that cut environmental impact and quantify sustainability.
Key outputsLeaching & separationREE replacementSustainability analysis
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OSAI Automation 🇮🇹
Re-X technologies from end-of-life products
Recycles rare earths and valuable metals from end-of-life electronics and electric machines, building automated dismantling and novel separation technologies that deliver consistent, high-quality recycled materials.
Key outputsAutomated dismantlingChemical separationRecycling logistics
Rare earths for sustainable E-machine design & production
Turns rare-earth materials – recycled, newly produced, or blended – into permanent magnets and the electric machines that use them, designed from the start for circularity (Re-X) and traced with a "magnet passport".
Key outputsPermanent magnet productionE-machine designDigital twinMagnet passport