Update
Maglut exits stealth.
After eleven months building quietly in Long Beach, Maglut is now public about what it's building and why: an independent, domestic rare-earth separation line built to run at production speed.
Rare-earth separation has been a closed shop for decades — a handful of facilities, mostly overseas, running processes that are slow to license and slower to scale. Maglut was founded to build a domestic alternative from the ground up, and for the past eleven months that work has happened without a public announcement. That changes today.
The company's first pilot line is running at its Long Beach facility, taking mixed rare-earth feedstock through to separated, purified product in a single continuous process. It is small — built to prove the chemistry and the controls, not to hit volume — but it runs end to end, which is the part that has historically taken new entrants years to reach.
Why now
Maglut is sharing this now because the pilot line has cleared the milestone that matters most internally: a complete separation run at pilot scale, with feedstock sourced from a U.S. mining partner rather than synthetic test material. That run is covered in the next entry in this log.
"We didn't want to talk about this until we had something that actually ran. Now we do."
The team is twelve people today, split across chemistry, separations, controls, and operations. The plan is to keep it small while the process is being proven, and grow the floor headcount as the line moves from pilot to production scale. The talent page lays out the twelve capability areas the company is building around, rather than a conventional set of job listings.
What's next
The immediate priority is running the pilot line consistently against real, variable feedstock rather than a single clean batch. In parallel, the team is scoping the equipment and layout for a production-scale line at the same facility. Updates on both will land in this log as they happen — no separate announcement cadence, no press cycle, just the record.