Securing rare earths for Europe’s high-tech industries

A group of critical raw materials may help Europe reduce supply-chain vulnerabilities. By  Michael Allen Dr Arne Petter Ratvik is championing high-tech goods for Europe through a low-tech source: fertiliser. Ratvik, a metals expert at independent Norwegian research organisation SINTEF, says raw materials needed by the European auto, computer, electronics, energy and other industries can … Read more