Manufacturing the Future: Producing Clean, Onshore Critical Minerals in the U.S.
January 15 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
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Please join us for a luncheon discussion featuring Nick Myers, CEO and Co-Founder of Phoenix Tailings, one of the most innovative and strategically important advanced manufacturing companies emerging in the United States.
Today, China controls the vast majority of the global rare earths supply chain. Nick will share how Phoenix Tailings, a U.S.-based technology company founded by MIT alumni, is redefining how rare earth metals are produced in this country. Their groundbreaking, zero-emission refining process extracts critical minerals from mining waste—transforming an environmental liability into a secure domestic resource.
Their work is especially relevant to U.S. national and economic security. Phoenix Tailings is working to build a fully domestic, sustainable, circular system to produce the materials essential for EVs, defense systems, electronics, renewable energy, and other high-tech applications.
The company’s proprietary, water-based molten salt technology allows them to recover rare earth elements, nickel, copper, zinc, and other valuable materials from mine tailings—all without toxic byproducts or carbon emissions. With active facilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and plans for significant scale-up, they are well on their way to establishing a modern, clean, onshore supply of critical minerals such as neodymium and dysprosium, which are core components of smartphones, wind turbines, EV motors, and military systems.
This discussion will provide an opportunity to hear directly from the company’s leadership, ask questions, and explore how this work intersects with broader supply-chain resilience efforts.
Cost: $85
Organizer:
MLeBretton@bens.org
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