MP Supplies 10X Magnet Manufacturing Facility, Northlake TX.
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MP Supplies has chosen Northlake, Texas, for its new $1.25 billion uncommon earth magnet manufacturing campus, the corporate introduced Thursday, amid a rush to shore up home provides of metals crucial for the whole lot from information facilities and protection to non-public electronics.
The power, dubbed “10X,” will use uncommon earth uncooked supplies which were sourced and processed at MP Supplies’ Mountain Go mine in California. Mountain Go is the one commercial-scale uncommon earths mine within the U.S.
As soon as operational, 10X will produce about 7,000 metric tons of uncommon earth magnets yearly, bringing the corporate’s whole manufacturing to 10,000 metric tons per yr.
The corporate has one other magnet facility in Forth Price, Texas, which began business manufacturing in 2025. Complete capability is about 3,000 tons per yr, with clients together with Basic Motors and Apple.
China dominates crucial minerals provide chains – together with for uncommon earths, controlling greater than 90% of processing, separation capability, and magnet manufacturing. Final yr the nation weaponized uncommon earths by curbing exports, shining a highlight on chokepoints inside the crucial minerals provide chain.
U.S. imports of uncommon earth magnets fell to about 6,000 tons in 2025 amid export controls. MP Supplies’ new manufacturing facility may finish direct import dependence. Nonetheless, when together with imports of finish merchandise that use uncommon earths magnets – together with vehicles and telephones – U.S. demand is considerably greater.
The Trump administration has introduced a number of initiatives aimed toward boosting home mining. Final yr, the Protection Division took a $400 million stake in MP Supplies, whereas additionally guaranteeing a minimal value of $110 per kilogram for 10 years for neodymium-praseodymium oxide, which is used to make magnets. All of 10X’s output is at the moment dedicated to the Pentagon for 10 years as a part of the beforehand introduced deal. That stated, there’s alternative for business clients to make use of the fabric with the DOD’s settlement.
“We’re advancing key aims beneath our public-private partnership with the Division of Conflict and accelerating America’s uncommon earth and magnet independence with an uncompromising deal with velocity, execution, and supply,” stated MP Supplies founder and CEO James Litinsky.
The manufacturing facility is predicted to start manufacturing in 2028 and create 1,5000 direct manufacturing and engineering jobs on the web site.
“The Chinese language Communist Social gathering represents probably the most acute nationwide safety menace to the USA, but we stay depending on the CCP for crucial minerals,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stated in a press release. “MP Supplies is constructing the infrastructure wanted to undo that dependence and bolster American nationwide safety,” he added.
