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Recycling Rare Earth Magnet Materials

Recycling rare-earth metals from magnets would provide a steady, domestic source of rare earths to manufacturers while also reducing waste. The availability and costs of rare earth (RE) materials required for the production of NdFeB permanent magnets have become somewhat unstable lately due to very large withdrawals from limited sources. Magnet recycling can help mediate these instabilities and also ease the negative environmental impact of rare-earth mining

Why Recycle

Some customers require the use of recycled RE elements in their magnets.  This has helped speed (forced) the development and launch of recycling operations.

The addition of recycled rare earths to the market will reduce the overall cost of RE materials and will also reduce supply chain insecurities.

Recycling RE magnets will reduce the requirement for RE mining.  Conventional mining and ore-reduction processes can be large polluting operations.