Rebuilding the Rare Earth Supply Chain for the Next Industrial Revolution in the United States.
4f Orbital – A strategic critical materials platform helping to rebuild the Western rare earth supply chain while connecting the United States, Saudi Arabia, and global industrial partners through advanced manufacturing, AI-enabled production, and sustainable supply chain localization.
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4f Orbital: America's Missing Rare-Earth Midstream
4f Orbital is redefining how rare earth metals are produced by using innovative metal thermic processes to deliver high quality metals, alloys and powders for superior rare earth magnets.
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4f Orbital: The Missing Link Between Rare Earth Mines and American Magnets
4f Orbital is an advanced materials company focused on the production of rare earth metals, alloys, and magnet-grade powders essential for electric vehicles, renewable energy, robotics, aerospace, wind technology, AI infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing.
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4f Orbital: Closing America's Rare-Earth Gap — Ore to Alloy to Magnet
Located in Texas City, Texas, 4f Orbital is establishing a secure and sustainable domestic source of critical rare earth materials to support America’s commercial industrial resurgence and allied supply chain resilience.
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Rebuilding the Rare Earth Supply Chain for the Next Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Who Are We
4f Orbital: America's Missing Rare-Earth Midstream
By focusing on midstream manufacturing—metal reduction, alloying, and powder production—4f Orbital enables a resilient “mine‑to‑magnet” ecosystem without assuming mining risk. 
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About 4f Orbital

Domestic midstream manufacturer for the mine-to-magnet supply chain.

4f Orbital converts rare earth fluorides into metals, custom magnet alloys and powders for U.S. and allied magnet producers.

Our Mission & Focus
Midstream Bottleneck

Rare Earth Supply Chain: 4f Orbital’s Wedge

The investable gap in the mine-to-magnet supply chain is domestic conversion capacity between separated rare earth compounds and finished magnets, specifically the ability to produce metal, alloy, and powder.

Mine
Separation
Metal
Alloy
Powder
Magnet
OEM
China refining share
~ 0 %
China magnet output
> 0 %
Structural
U.S. midstream gap

Co-Existence + Dual-Source Raw Materials Strategy

The U.S. and EU cannot fully reshore rare earth production without China. The winning strategy is co-existence: continue to secure China rare earths while building an allied network that steadily reduces China’s risk.

Our Approach

Co-exist with China producers

China has the most established rare-earth production and processing ecosystem.

Manage trade risk

U.S.-China rare-earth trade issues can change quickly.

Network to soften dominance

4f Orbital can coordinate multiple non-China sources across allied markets.

Manufacturing Process

Manufacturing Process

4f Orbital will use established, industrially proven advanced metallurgical processes to convert raw rare earth fluorides into rare earth alloys and powders.

Manufacturing
01

Input

NdF₃, PrF₃, DyF₃, TbF₃ fluorides

02

Reduction

Calcium-based reduction.

03

Refining

Vacuum induction melting and chemistry control

04

Powder

Crushing, milling and hydrogen decrepitation

Products Overview

What 4f Orbital sells

Products
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Rare earth metals / eutectic alloys

DyFe, TbFe, and NdPrFe master alloys for sale or internal alloying.

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Custom magnet alloys

NdPr-Fe-B alloys with Dy/Tb additions to customer specifications.

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Magnet-grade powders

Powders sized for sintered and bonded NdFeB magnets.

Insights & Updates

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  • 2026-10-21

4f Orbital Company Launches to Strengthen U.S. Rare Earth Manufacturing

New venture plans Greater Houston facility to produce rare earth metals, magnet alloys and powders for U.S. and allied manufacturers....