Westwin Elements

09/02/2026

Westwin Elements Founder and CEO KaLeigh Long joined the Texas Energy Forum in Houston last week for a discussion on “The Critical Minerals Race: America, China, and the Fight for Industrial Dominance.”

America cannot secure its industrial future by mining critical minerals at home only to send them abroad for processing. Winning the race requires rebuilding the domestic refining capacity that turns raw materials into the high-purity products needed for defense, aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

Thank you to the Texas Energy Forum for convening this important conversation.

08/31/2026

“The current trade dispute highlights a real vulnerability in America’s critical mineral supply chain,” said KaLeigh Long, founder and CEO of Westwin Elements. “Critical imports produced in allied jurisdictions can still be vulnerable to adversarial influence, entanglement, and in some cases, control. America needs the ability to produce the critical materials our economy and national security depend on here at home.”

Ford directly called on high-purity nickel, questioning “what would they do without the high-grade nickel that we ship down to the U.S.?”

08/18/2026

America cannot rebuild the Arsenal of Freedom while relying on foreign nations to refine the materials it requires. Restoring domestic Class 1 nickel refining is essential to strengthening the defense industrial base and the American warfighter.

The House Armed Services committee’s framework warns that the decline of the defense industrial base has weakened both readiness and deterrence. Its answer is clear: American industry must be able to produce for the warfighter at speed and scale.

08/10/2026

This is a great step toward restoring America’s domestic critical mineral supply chains. Restricting exports of battery black mass helps keep valuable critical minerals here at home, where they can support a growing domestic recycling, refining, and manufacturing industrial base.

Westwin’s carbonyl refining offers a pathway to take that one step further. Recycled nickel-bearing materials can be converted into high-purity nickel for defense, aerospace, superalloys, electroplating, and other critical applications.

This is how we help rebuild the American supply chain: recover critical materials here, refine them here, manufacture with them here—and create good American jobs along the way.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

08/06/2026

Independence is more than what a nation believes. It is what a nation has the capacity to build.

07/21/2026

Resilient supply chains require resilient industrial capacity. For critical minerals like nickel, rebuilding domestic refining isn’t just an economic opportunity, but a strategic necessity.

Secure feedstocks, domestic processing, and American manufacturing must all work together to build a supply chain that can withstand future disruptions.

That’s how we strengthen the defense industrial base for the long term.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy.

07/16/2026

Supply chain independence requires domestic refining. Westwin is building America’s only Class 1 nickel refinery to support advanced manufacturing, energy, and national defense.

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07/15/2026

Westwin's closed-loop carbonyl circuit generates no solid or liquid waste while producing high-purity Class 1 nickel, proving that advanced manufacturing and responsible innovation can go hand in hand.

The future of American critical mineral refining is cleaner, smarter, and built to last.

07/13/2026

Readiness starts long before operations begin.

It starts with secure domestic supply chains for the critical materials that power America's Defense Industrial Base.

Class 1 nickel is one of them.

07/08/2026

The American Dream has always belonged to the men and women who clock in before sunrise, solve tough problems, and build the things our nation depends on.

Manufacturing doesn't just produce metals. It creates opportunity. It provides families with good-paying careers, strengthens communities, and gives America the industrial strength to remain secure and competitive.

At Westwin Elements, we're proud to invest in the people who make that possible every day.

Because the Blue-Collar Dream isn't a chapter in America's history. It's how America builds its future.