Tenaris has begun domestic production of its proprietary TN 95EY steel grade at its Sault Ste. Marie Industrial Centre, the only North American facility manufacturing both seamless and welded pipe under one roof, targeting high-pressure, high-temperature sour service wells in the Montney and Duvernay formations. The company has invested over C$355 million in Canada since 2020, including a C$306 million modernisation and expansion programme announced in May 2026 with federal and Ontario government support. Local TN 95EY output required retooling existing processes plus comprehensive per-pipe testing and traceability, tightening supply chains for Canadian oil and gas operators.

Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University has launched the Critical Materials Manufacturing Technology Accelerator with USCAR, offering a $100,000 grand prize and pilot-scale commercialisation support for technologies that cut US dependence on imported critical materials and rare earth elements. The Innovation Challenge targets processes and materials that can move rapidly from lab to production for automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics and defence components, including batteries, motors, power electronics and structural parts. Eligible proposals must focus on processing, substitution or end‑of‑life recovery and recycling, not mineral exploration, mining or primary ore extraction.

Rare earth recycler Paladin EnviroTech is investing over US$5 million to expand its Ohio recovery facility from 40 to 150 tonnes per year by Q3 next year, targeting end-of-life hard drives, EV motors, generators, MRI machines and wind turbines containing neodymium, praseodymium, terbium and dysprosium (up to ~16% Dy in MRI magnets). Working with Western Digital and Critical Materials Recycling, Paladin uses a non-acidic selective leaching process achieving 97–98% rare earth recovery and about 90% total value recovery, feeding mixed rare earth oxides back into Western magnet supply chains.