St. George germanium recovery and refining expansion
St. George, Utah
prj-us-5n-st-george-germanium-refining
What does the record establish?
A distinct DPA-funded scope from the 2024 substrate-capacity award, although both occur at the same St. George facility.
Financial standing
1 directly linked instruments. Recorded financial states: Decided. A commitment, a payment and a project cost remain separate.
Inspect instruments and termsLegal and policy context
1 parent policy records; 0 project designations. Designation confers standing, not finance. Material and stage overlaps with controls do not establish a restriction on this project.
Read the policy recordsIndustrial evidence
No source-reviewed project milestone is published in this corpus. Financing records may still contain attributed activity reports; this gap does not establish inactivity.
See evidence gapsFinancial evidence and chronology
Each instrument keeps its own financial history. These dates describe financial states, not construction or production. Amounts are the current recorded terms, not historical amounts at every date below.
Grant · U.S. Department of War$18.1 million · Decided · Commitment
- Provider organizations
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Recipient
- 5N Plus Inc.5N Plus Inc.
- Legal authority as stated
- Defense Production Act Title III
· Decided
The Department states that the investment was made on 15 December 2025 and announced later because of the government shutdown. No execution or payment evidence is established in the reviewed sources: no definitive agreement or federal award record was found, USAspending lists no 2025 or later award to 5N Plus for this scope as of 4 October 2026 (an absence in one dataset, which can lag), and 5N+'s filings call it an award without stating execution. The row is not advanced to contracted.
U.S. Department of War
Source-stated terms
- over the course of the next 48 months 5N Plus Inc.
Company description of the capacity-expansion period.
A separate DPA-funded scope from the 2024 germanium-substrate award. Recycling and refining are both named, but the $18.1M is not divided by stage. Reviewed 4 October 2026: no execution or payment evidence established in the reviewed sources (no executed-agreement document, federal award record, payment or payment date was found). The physical stage supported for the funded scope is announced only, which records the stated plan and not construction (recipient wording is future-tense, including its 2025 Sustainability Report, which is undated). 5N+'s 22 September 2026 release about a roughly 50% St. George facility expansion says it is funded from existing capex plans and customer support and does not attribute it to this award.
Full financial instrument, conditions and field-level evidenceCapital stack
One layer per value role. Only committed public money, and joint-vehicle money apart from it, is summed, per currency; everything else is listed. There is no total across layers.
Public commitments
1 row · summed per currencyCommitted to a recipient by a government or public enterprise, at the status each row states. A contracted, partially disbursed or disbursed row is binding because an agreement is executed; payment is tracked separately by status. A contracted row need not mean funds are obligated or paid, and a partially disbursed row is not fully paid. Summed per currency and per instrument, never across either; a part is never added to its package.
USD
Grant1 row
Not yet binding
- Stated exactly
- 18.1 million
1 counted
Source-reviewed industrial observations
No source-reviewed project milestone is published for this undertaking. Any financing-row activity reports below remain attributed observations, not independently reviewed project milestones. Missing evidence does not establish inactivity.
Policy context
These records directly parent the project's finance or designation entries. Their presence does not establish a causal effect on industrial activity.
15 Dec 2025 · Active
Department of War DPA investment in 5N+ germanium recovery and refining
U.S. Department of War
Control clauses on the same materials and stages
Clauses whose covered items share a material and a supply-chain stage with this project, with their legal status on 3 Nov 2026. An overlap of items, not a finding that the project is affected.
Record
- Sponsors
- 5N Plus Inc.Company
- Location
- St. George, UtahUS
- Stages
- Recycling, Refining
- Materials
- GermaniumTracked materials only
- Programmes
- None recorded
- Latest financing-row activity report
- Announced29 Jan 2026U.S. Department of War
What remains unknown
Gaps describe the available SMPT record. They do not establish that an activity did not occur.
- No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.
- Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.
- Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome.
Evidence
Every project fact names the source that states it.
Department of War Invests $18.1M to Increase U.S. Refining Capacity for Germanium Metal
U.S. Department of War
- Fields supported
- Name · Location · Supply-chain stages · Materials
- Evidence level
- Explicit
- Location in document
- Opening and capacity paragraphs
- Qualification
- The release describes expansion of germanium-metal zone refining and sourcing from underutilized domestic sources.
5N Plus Inc.
- Fields supported
- Sponsors · Supply-chain stages · Materials
- Evidence level
- Explicit
- Location in document
- Opening and capacity paragraphs
- Qualification
- 5N+ describes recycling and refining germanium from industrial residues and mining by-products.
5N Plus Inc. Management's Discussion and Analysis, year ended December 31, 2025
5N Plus Inc.
- Fields supported
- Sponsors · Supply-chain stages · Materials
- Evidence level
- Explicit
- Location in document
- Page 4, sentence beginning 'In early 2026, the Company announced'
- Qualification
- Recipient disclosure of the US$18.1M grant for germanium recycling and refining capacity. It does not name St. George.
5N+ 2025 Sustainability Report
5N Plus Inc.
- Fields supported
- Location · Supply-chain stages · Materials
- Evidence level
- Explicit
- Location in document
- Page 42, Waste Management, 'Driving Circularity Through Germanium Recovery'
- Qualification
- Recipient publication describing a planned expansion of germanium recovery and recycling at St. George, supported by a U.S. government award, over the next four years. It states no stage beyond planned.
| Source | Fields supported | Evidence level | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of War Invests $18.1M to Increase U.S. Refining Capacity for Germanium Metal U.S. Department of War · Source dossier |
| Explicit The release describes expansion of germanium-metal zone refining and sourcing from underutilized domestic sources. | Opening and capacity paragraphs |
| 5N+ Awarded US$18.1 Million by U.S. Government to Significantly Increase Germanium Production Capacity in St. George, Utah 5N Plus Inc. · Source dossier |
| Explicit 5N+ describes recycling and refining germanium from industrial residues and mining by-products. | Opening and capacity paragraphs |
| 5N Plus Inc. Management's Discussion and Analysis, year ended December 31, 2025 5N Plus Inc. · Source dossier |
| Explicit Recipient disclosure of the US$18.1M grant for germanium recycling and refining capacity. It does not name St. George. | Page 4, sentence beginning 'In early 2026, the Company announced' |
| 5N+ 2025 Sustainability Report 5N Plus Inc. · Source dossier |
| Explicit Recipient publication describing a planned expansion of germanium recovery and recycling at St. George, supported by a U.S. government award, over the next four years. It states no stage beyond planned. | Page 42, Waste Management, 'Driving Circularity Through Germanium Recovery' |
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