Commercial Partners
Aclara is building a fully integrated rare earth value chain designed to deliver magnet-grade materials to strategic commercial partners across the global clean energy, mobility, and advanced technology sectors. Through its vertically integrated platform, Aclara is moving from resource development to high-value separation, metals, and alloy production.
Project Dynamo
Aclara’s separation facility, Project Dynamo, is designed to produce high-value magnet rare earth oxides, including neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr), dysprosium (Dy), and terbium (Tb). These products are essential inputs for permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other advanced technologies.
At full capacity, Project Dynamo is expected to deliver the following annual average production:
- Dysprosium oxide (>99.5%): 148 tonnes
- Terbium oxide (>99.5%): 25 tonnes
- NdPr oxide (>99.5%): 1,131 tonnes
The facility will also produce valuable by-products, enhancing overall resource efficiency and project economics:
- SEG mixed carbonate containing approximately 173 tonnes of Sm, 8 tonnes of Eu, and 177 tonnes of Gd
- Super heavy mixed carbonate containing approximately 1,160 tonnes of Y, 31 tonnes of Ho, 88 tonnes of Er, 12 tonnes of Tm, 73 tonnes of Yb, and 10 tonnes of Lu
Aclara’s Metals and Alloys branch is designed to further upgrade rare earth oxides into refined metals and advanced alloy products, completing a fully integrated mine-to-magnet platform. The proposed facility incorporates a multi-step metallization flowsheet, including fluorination to produce NdPr, Dy, and Tb fluorides; molten salt electrolysis for NdPr and FeDy metals; vacuum induction melting (VIM) for terbium metal; and strip casting for NdFeB alloys.This integrated approach enables the conversion of separated rare earth oxides into high-performance magnet materials within a coordinated industrial system.
Planned annual average production includes:
- FeDy metal (80% Dy / 20% Fe, >99.5% purity): 154 tonnes
- Tb metal (>99.5%): 19 tonnes
- NdPr metal (>99.5%): 811 tonnes
- Based on a maximum production of 1,000 tonnes of NdPr oxide, with approximately 131 tonnes of excess NdPr oxide available for direct sale or further processing
- NdFeB alloys (>99.5%): 2,681 tonnes
- Nominal plant capacity of 3,500 tonnes per year, with output aligned to NdPr metal availability
The Metals and Alloys platform also enables the conversion of additional critical rare earths into higher-value forms:
- Y and Gd metals via VIM, leveraging shared processing infrastructure with incremental capacity expansion
- Evaluation of Sm oxide conversion into metal and potential downstream processing into samarium-cobalt (SmCo) alloys
Together, Project Dynamo and the Metals and Alloys branch position Aclara as a fully integrated supplier of magnet-grade rare earth materials, offering commercial partners a secure, traceable, and scalable source of critical inputs for the energy transition.
For more information please contact:
Francois Motte, Aclara Resources CFO: francois.motte@aclara-re.com
Alonso Guzman, Aclara Technologies CFO: alonso.guzman@aclara-re.com
Planned annual average production includes:
- FeDy metal (80% Dy / 20% Fe, >99.5% purity): 154 tonnes
- Tb metal (>99.5%): 19 tonnes
- NdPr metal (>99.5%): 811 tonnes
- Based on a maximum production of 1,000 tonnes of NdPr oxide, with approximately 131 tonnes of excess NdPr oxide available for direct sale or further processing
- NdFeB alloys (>99.5%): 2,681 tonnes
- Nominal plant capacity of 3,500 tonnes per year, with output aligned to NdPr metal availability
The Metals and Alloys platform also enables the conversion of additional critical rare earths into higher-value forms:
- Y and Gd metals via VIM, leveraging shared processing infrastructure with incremental capacity expansion
- Evaluation of Sm oxide conversion into metal and potential downstream processing into samarium-cobalt (SmCo) alloys
Together, Project Dynamo and the Metals and Alloys branch position Aclara as a fully integrated supplier of magnet-grade rare earth materials, offering commercial partners a secure, traceable, and scalable source of critical inputs for the energy transition.
For more information please contact:
Francois Motte, Aclara Resources CFO: francois.motte@aclara-re.com
Alonso Guzman, Aclara Technologies CFO: alonso.guzman@aclara-re.com
Aclara is building a vertically integrated heavy rare earth supply chain, with ionic clay deposits in Brazil and Chile and a dedicated separation facility in the U.S.
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