Adwen, a joint venture between AREVA and Gamesa, recently appointed a consortium for designing and preparing a detailed implantation scheme of the two offshore wind factories it plans to build in France. These facilities will produce the nacelles and blades for the 8-MW turbines to be installed in three future projects: Baie de Saint-Brieuc (2020),…

Molycorp, Inc. will transition its Mountain Pass rare earth facility to a “care and maintenance” mode while it plans to continue serving its rare earth oxide customers via its production facilities in Estonia and China. Customers of the company’s magnetic materials and rare earth-based water treatment products will not be impacted. Rare earth production at…