Great Western Minerals Group is a Canadian-based specialty metals production company with a vertically-integrated business model in the rare earth element industry through exploration and mine development. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Less Common Metals Limited, located in Birkenhead UK, and Great Western Technologies Inc., located in Troy, Michigan, the Company produces a variety of specialty alloys for use in the rechargeable battery, permanent magnet, automotive and aerospace industries. Less Common Metals currently supplies 20% of the world’s SmCo alloy for use in permanent magnets and is a significant supplier of alloys for NdFeB permanent magnets.
Great Western Technologies Inc. is a leading production facility in North America for extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, and specialty alloys manufacturing in the rare earth materials market.
Less Common Metals Ltd. is a world leader in the manufacture and supply of rare earth based alloys and high purity metals focused on the permanent magnet industry. With considerable experience in the production of materials to tight compositional tolerances and controlled microstructures, LCM offers an innovative and highly flexible approach to a wide range of material requirements.