Why Critical Materials?

Critical & Strategic Minerals are designated by the Departments of Energy and Defense respectively as essential for the US economy. These minerals are the upstream feedstock for mid-stream & downstream Critical Materials required by the Automotive, Energy Distribution & Storage, Aeronautical, Semi-Conductor, Communication, Defense and other essential industries. The US has ceded significant ground in securing the Critical Material supply chains essential to support these industries.
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This has hollowed out the US Critical Materials manufacturing base, reducing US jobs, especially skilled employment while increasing the risk of the US losing its global leadership role in traditional, advanced, and strategic industries & technologies. To reverse this shift, the US needs to re-gain control of the Critical Materials supply chains especially from countries that are not strategically aligned to US interests. A time sensitive and rapidly scaled expansion of the US Critical Materials industrial base is needed for it to remain globally competitive in its core downstream industrial and defense industries.
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AIP's team and network consists of industry & process specific technical experts along with strategy & capital market executives that have decades of domestic & international project operations and management experience. AIP combines these skill sets to delivery projects that create Critical Materials supply chain resiliency to directly benefit US strategic & economic interests.