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There are no operational rare earth mines in Europe. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Economics , Science

Simplified: No operational rare earth mines exist in Europe

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Solvay CEO, Philippe Kehren, who is cutting the ribbon, says the facility aims to provide 30% of Europe's rare earths by 2030 0.900

👤 Philippe Kehren 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Economics , Science

Simplified: Facility aims to provide 30% of Europe's rare earths by 2030

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As demand continues to grow that will change, and more virgin material will be needed from countries such as Brazil, Canada and Australia. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Environmental

Simplified: Growing demand will require more virgin rare earth material from Brazil Canada Australia

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"We think that we can probably produce 30% of the rare earths needed by Europe just by recycling end of life motors and other equipment," says Mr Kehren. 0.800

👤 Mr Kehren 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environmental , Business

Simplified: Mr Kehren says recycling end-of-life equipment can produce 30% of Europe's rare earth needs

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The increased investment in the facility comes as it is moving away from focusing on supplying rare earths for catalytic convertors, to instead focus on soaring demand for the magnets that are essenti... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Technology

Simplified: Increased investment shifts facility focus from catalytic convertors to magnets for electric car batteries electronics defence systems

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Europe only has two rare earth processing facilities, one in Estonia and this one in western France. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Geography

Simplified: Europe has two rare earth processing facilities one in Estonia one in western France

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It is the only plant outside of China that can process all 17 different rare earths. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Geography

Simplified: Plant in western France is only plant outside China that can process all 17 rare earths

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It sets targets for reducing dependence on imports for the extraction, processing and recycling of the most important substances by 2030. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Regulation

Simplified: EU's Critical Raw Materials Act sets targets for reducing import dependence by 2030

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That is why the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act came into force last year. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Regulation

Simplified: EU's Critical Raw Materials Act came into force last year

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The Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine have made companies and politicians try to remove some of the vulnerabilities in their supply chains. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geopolitics , Economics

Simplified: Covid pandemic and Ukraine war made companies and politicians try to remove supply chain vulnerabilities.

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"This is a market that is growing fast, and, also, there is a greater demand for shorter supply chains," says Solvay's CEO Philippe Kehren. 0.900

👤 Philippe Kehren 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Industry

Simplified: Philippe Kehren says the market is growing fast with greater demand for shorter supply chains.

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The future of Solvay's plant will be critical to those ambitions. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Industry , Geopolitics

Simplified: Solvay's plant will be critical to Europe's ambitions.

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Europe, like many other parts of the world, is trying to reduce its dependence on importing these key metals from China. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geopolitics , Economics

Simplified: Europe is trying to reduce its dependence on importing key metals from China.

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However, around 70% of rare earths mining, and 90% of refining, happens in China, as a result of years of support from the Chinese government. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Industry , Mining , Refining

Simplified: 70% of rare earths mining and 90% of refining happens in China.

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This group of 17 metals are essential to huge amounts of modern technology such as smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines and MRI scanners. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Industry

Simplified: 17 rare earth metals are essential to modern technology.

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But as the materials become more and more crucial to the global economy, chemicals firm Solvay is expanding its processing plant next to the glistening Atlantic Ocean to meet surging demand across Eur... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Company , Industry

Simplified: Solvay is expanding its processing plant to meet surging demand across Europe.

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Read about our approach to external linking. 1.000

👤 BBC 📋 News Article 🏷️ About , Policy

Simplified: Read about BBC approach to external linking

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For almost 80 years rare earth metals have been pumped out of this industrial plant in La Rochelle on France's west coast. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Industry , Metals

Simplified: Rare earth metals have been pumped out of the La Rochelle plant for almost 80 years.

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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 1.000

👤 BBC 📋 News Article 🏷️ Legal , Disclaimer

Simplified: BBC is not responsible for external sites content

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Follow BBC on tiktok 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ social media

Simplified: Users can follow BBC on TikTok

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