{"id":938198,"date":"2025-06-12T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938198"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:22:38","slug":"amazon-and-microsoft-backed-startup-to-build-recycling-plant-of-rare-earths-in-canada-the-rare-minerals-that-analysts-say-gives-china-upper-hand-in-trade-war-with-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/amazon-and-microsoft-backed-startup-to-build-recycling-plant-of-rare-earths-in-canada-the-rare-minerals-that-analysts-say-gives-china-upper-hand-in-trade-war-with-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Microsoft-backed startup to build Recycling Plant of rare earths in Canada, the &#8216;rare minerals&#8217; that analysts say gives China upper hand in trade war with the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclic Materials, a startup supported by Amazon, Microsoft, and BMW Group, plans to invest $25 million in a rare-earths recycling plant and research center in Ontario, Canada, according to a statement reported by Bloomberg. The facility, set to begin operations in the first quarter of 2026, aims to bolster North America\u2019s supply of critical minerals amid rising global demand and China\u2019s dominance over rare-earth markets.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclic\u2019s technology extracts rare earths from end-of-life products like wind turbines, data-center hard drives, and electric vehicle components, addressing supply chain vulnerabilities highlighted by China\u2019s export restrictions in retaliation to U.S. tariffs, Bloomberg noted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclic Materials, a startup supported by Amazon, Microsoft, and BMW Group, plans to invest $25 million in a rare-earths recycling plant and research center in Ontario, Canada, according to a statement reported by Bloomberg. The facility, set to begin operations in the first quarter of 2026, aims to bolster North America\u2019s supply of critical minerals amid rising global demand and China\u2019s dominance over rare-earth markets. Cyclic\u2019s technology extracts rare earths from end-of-life products like wind turbines, data-center hard drives, and electric vehicle components, addressing supply chain vulnerabilities highlighted by China\u2019s export restrictions in retaliation to U.S. tariffs, Bloomberg noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}