Hub and Spoke model I've been reading up on Cyclic and see that, like Li-Cycle, it refers to it facilities as "hubs and spokes".
The spokes are the feedstock locations. In Li-Cycle's case, it is the many local facilities from which they receive the used, end-of-life batteries to physically break-down into black mass. In Cyclic's case, the spokes are the local facilities where the used motors also go through physical processing to separate the magnetic material from other materials.
The hubs are the centers of hydrometelurgical processing. For Li-Cycle, it's where the technology developed with KPM is utilized to get battery metal concentrates. For Cyclic, it's where the technology, also developed with KPM, is used to get rare earth concentrates.
My question for Dragon is this. You have said that you dislike the term "strategic metals complex". Would you prefer that Pat instead adopt the language of "spokes and hubs"? Would you prefer him saying, for example, that Aclara's concentrate facility is a "Rapidsx spoke", and Ucore's separation facility in Louisiana is a "Rapidsx hub"?
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P.S. We are getting close to perfection. I can feel it.
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