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Neo Performance Materials is a leading supplier of advanced materials used in a wide range of technology applications across many sectors. With our state-of-the-art processing and manufacturing facilities we are able to produce some of the highest performance rare earth and rare metal based engineered materials in the world – meeting even your most challenging product specs.

Innovation has always been a key driver for our business. As a leader in the space, we invest significant resources to improve the efficiency of our rare earth processing operations, and to research and develop new rare earth applications. We employ new processes and technologies that dramatically reduce the environmental footprint while driving globally competitive costs of rare earth production.

Headquartered in Toronto and with corporate offices in Greenwood Village, Colorado, US, and Beijing, China, Neo operates production facilities and/or sales and customer service offices in 10 countries:  Japan, China, Thailand, Estonia, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, and South Korea.  With processing and separating facilities in both Europe and Asia, we help our customers diversify the risk of sourcing materials from a single country. We maintain our high-quality facilities by investing to improve the efficiency of the rare earth processing operations, develop.

Our business is organized along three business segments: Neo Chemicals and Oxides, Neo Magnequench, and Neo Rare Metals. Through these segments, we are engaged in the production, processing and development of rare earth and zirconium-based engineered materials; magnetic powders; and rare metals including gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum and niobium.

Neo Magnequench

Neo Magnequench, with over a quarter century of manufacturing experience, is the world leader in the production of magnetic powders used in the manufacture of bonded neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets. Our powders are used in automotive motors, micro motors, precision motors, sensors and other applications requiring high levels of magnetic strength, small size, improved performance, and reduced weight.

Our materials team designs new powders to cater to specific market needs by combining unequalled knowledge of both the rapid solidification process and alloy compositions. Modifications to the metallurgical process and the alloy systems are considered in tandem in order to deliver enhanced magnetic or mechanical attributes of the powder as defined by our customers and the markets they serve.

Our applications scientists and engineers are dedicated to working with magnet users to model the behavior of bonded NdFeB magnets at initial design stages. This cooperation with the magnet user enables it to perfect the application’s design for optimal cost performance by leveraging our industry-leading research and development facilities and our extensive commercial knowledge of the magnetic and rare earth industries.

For more information on our magnetic powders, please visit mqitechnology.com.

Neo Chemicals and Oxides

Neo Chemicals and Oxides manufactures and distributes a broad range of light and heavy rare earth engineered products that have become an indispensable part of modern life. The major rare earth elements produced and sold by Neo Chemicals and Oxides are cerium (“Ce”), lanthanum (“La”), praseodymium (“Pr”), neodymium (“Nd”), dysprosium (“Dy”), and yttrium (“Y”). We process semi-finished light rare earth concentrate (“LREC”) and heavy rare earth concentrate (“HREC”) into standard and highly-engineered rare earth oxides and salts.

From our production facilities in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, and Sillamäe, Estonia, we process LREC into Ce, La, Nd, and Pr oxides and salts, and produce value-added, engineered mixed oxide products for use in automotive emission-control catalysts, petroleum refining, and other chemical catalysts, hybrid and electric vehicles, water purification, and a number of other applications. Our Sillamäe plant also manufactures tantalum and niobium, among other rare metals, for our Neo Rare Earths business unit.

Our Jiangyin production facility in Jiangsu Province, China, processes HREC into constituent elements for use in a multitude of industrial applications, including high-efficiency lighting and displays, high-end optical lenses and consumer electronics.

Neo Rare Metals

Neo Rare Metals produces, reclaims, refines and markets high value niche metals and their compounds that include gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum, and niobium. These products are used in a variety of end use applications ranging from wireless technologies, LED lighting and flat panel displays to turbine, solar, steel additives, and electronic applications, among others.

Our rare metals business is truly global, serving customers across North America, Europe, and Asia. We have production facilities in Quapaw, Oklahoma and Blanding, Utah in the United States; Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Sagard, Germany; Hyeongok Industrial Zone in South Korea; Sillamäe, Estonia; and Hejin, China.