Critical Minerals Factbook
Facility

Shin-Etsu Chemical rare earth magnet operations (Takefu)

Sintered NdFeB rare earth magnet operations of Shin-Etsu Chemical, anchored by the Takefu Plant at Kitago 2-1-5, Echizen City, Fukui per the company's rare earth magnet site (which also lists a co-located Magnetic Materials Research Institute and overseas subsidiaries in Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand). METI approved permanent-magnet supply assurance plans naming Shin-Etsu Chemical: 2024永久磁石第1号-1 on April 9, 2024 (capacity expansion, max subsidy about 13 billion yen, jointly with three Southeast Asian subsidiaries) and 2025永久磁石第1号-1 on April 30, 2025 (waste-magnet recycling equipment, max about 3.7 billion yen, with the Vietnam subsidiary); METI names companies, not plant sites, so attribution of the plans to this facility is marked inferred.

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Location: Echizen, Fukui, Japan

Magnets

Sintered NdFeB magnet production

Operating

Sintered Nd-Fe-B rare earth magnet manufacturing (material and machining processes plus recycling per the company site); METI-certified capacity expansion under plan 2024永久磁石第1号-1

Material flow

NdFeB Alloy → Sintered NdFeB Magnet

Capacity

No capacity claim. Absence of a figure means no source publishes one.

Qualification

No qualification claim. Status does not imply qualified output.

Sources