According to the “Mining Weekly”, Phoenix Tailings plans to build a commercial-scale rare earth processing facility worth 375 million US dollars, located in Rochester, New York. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced this project on Tuesday and stated that the 500,000-square-foot factory will be located in the Eastman Business Park in Rochester. According to the governor’s statement, part of the operation plan for the factory is expected to start next year, and full production is expected to be achieved in 2028. The facility is expected to process approximately 18,000 tons of rare earth materials annually. New York State will provide a 3 million US dollar performance-based tax credit for this project. Governor Hochul said that the facility will establish a clean rare earth element supply chain within New York State and reduce reliance on foreign key mineral sources, thereby supporting national security. Before this announcement, several months earlier, the Pentagon had committed to providing 500 million US dollars in long-term debt financing to Phoenix Tailings for the construction of a midstream rare earth processing plant in the United States. The US rare earth element processing market: Scale, trends and projections until 2035. Market report. The US rare earth element processing market
Phoenix Tailings’ CEO Nick Myers said that the United States and its allies cannot build the next generation advanced manufacturing on a supply chain that is not under their control. The report pointed out that the United States is investing billions of dollars in building new rare earth factories to weaken China’s influence over these minerals; these minerals are used in various products from electric vehicles to fighter jets, but most of the production capacity is expected to come on stream no earlier than 2027 or later. Technology can allow a country to control key supply chains, but it requires skilled and determined workers to turn this potential into actual production. And it is said that the workforce in Rochester has the ability to build, innovate and operate industrial facilities. Federal support and broader plans. The Rochester factory is part of Phoenix Tailings’ 1.2 billion US dollar Freedom project, a separation and metallization platform aimed at filling the gap in midstream rare earth processing capacity in the United States. This broader effort is expected to create over 500 jobs in New York State, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Sichuan Wonaixi Rare Metal New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. has continuously the research and production of rare earth functional materials since its establishment in 2012. It is a “National High-tech Enterprise” and a “Specialized and Innovative Enterprise” in Sichuan Province. It now has a professional production line with an annual capacity of 15，000 tons of high-purity rare earth salts and 3，000 tons of rare earth precision polishing powder. The company’s products cover lanthanum oxide， cerium oxide， large-grain cerium oxide， lanthanum chloride， cerium chloride， praseodymium chloride， yttrium chloride， erbium chloride， neodymium chloride， anhydrous lanthanum chloride， anhydrous cerium chloride， neodymium chloride， calcium lactate， high-purity calcium lactate， cerium oxide， large-grain cerium oxide， high-purity calcium oxide， fine-grained spherical cerium oxide， high-purity calcium yttrium， ammonium cerium nitrate， electronic-grade ammonium cerium nitrate， calcium hydroxide， cerium hydroxide， yttrium hydroxide， lanthanum sulfate， cerium sulfate， high-selenium cerium sulfate， calcium lactate， acetic acid cerium， fluorine lanthanum， fluorine cerium， praseodymium fluoride， yttrium fluoride， nitric acid zirconium， zirconium acetic acid， sulfuric zirconium， and a wide range of other products， which are widely used in defense and military， aerospace， medicine， electronics， new energy， three-way catalytic converters， environmental protection， precision optical polishing and other fields， meeting the diverse needs of customers in these specialized fields.
Post time: Oct-16-2026
