Industry committee  We are building right now the demonstration plant that will be able to process 1.5 tonnes a day of this material.

Industry committee  Turbines are usually dismantled on the spot. There are companies who specialize in doing that. Again, we are only entering the end of life for some turbines, considering that a large volume of turbines really started appearing around the early 2000s. By the way, those originally

Industry committee  Correct. We started developing a process around 2017 for extracting the rare earths from the magnets that go pretty much into all of the speakers you see in this room and into wind turbines. Those magnets are used more and more in everything. Getting the rare earths out of the ma

Industry committee  The wind industry is a very interesting sector. You are absolutely right that it's appearing everywhere. We need to understand that for wind turbines, the life cycle is anywhere from 15 to 40 years. It depends on the type of wind turbine, whether it's offshore or onshore. From ou

Industry committee  I think that what's required is a collaboration between industries, research centres and universities. Industries have very different goals from research centres. Research centres offer their assistance, whereas industries contribute their problems. When industries have a proble

Industry committee  I think it's important, and probably the most important partner would be the U.S. They are our southern border neighbour, and we see a lot of interest from the U.S. to develop together all of those circular economies for critical and strategic metals. We saw that the Department

Industry committee  Mr. Lemire, just to clarify, we haven't yet built the permanent rare-earth magnet recycling plant yet. We are building it now. That's an important distinction to make. Rare earth recycling only began about 10 years ago. In 2012, China wasn't even recycling rare earths. In 2018,

Industry committee  Some initiatives have already been set in motion. I'd say it's only getting under way now. We're seeing some initiatives and investments in companies like Geomega for recycling rare earths, such as those used in the permanent magnets in electric vehicles and wind turbines. There

Industry committee  Hi, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here today to discuss this super important and critical aspect of the circular economy. Geomega is a developer of innovative processing technologies. We are focused on extracting metals from existing and new sources of material. The demand f