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Existing alloyers generally buy pure magnesium from magnesium producers, then re-melt the magnesium to add the alloying ingredients (with additional metal loss, energy costs, plant infrastructure and overheads) - CMC will bypass this in one stage and capture the alloying margin at nil or negligible additional cost.

The company sells the resulting materials to solder alloyers, smelters and manufacturers.

Lifton said: "In that case, American owned and operated mines, metal processors, metal alloyers, magnet fabricators, and magnet using device fabricators will become immediately competitive in the global market due to the level playing field created by Congress.

The secondary smelter says that he feels 15 percent to 20 percent of the typical consumers of specification secondary alloy or ingot have become self alloyers in the last eight to 10 years.