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Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG (VAC), founded 1923 and headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of advanced magnetic materials.
Ara Partners acquired VAC from funds managed by Apollo on 2023-10-10 (VAC previously passed through One Equity Partners 2005-2011 and OM Group 2011-2023 — the earlier one equity partners era, misattributed as current in a prior dossier revision, ended 15 years ago). On 2026-06-23 Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE-A: UUUU) announced a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of VAC from Ara Partners for ~1.9bn USD equity value (718m USD cash + 65.853m newly issued Energy Fuels shares, Energy Fuels to assume ~140m USD of VAC net debt), targeted to close early 2027 subject to foreign-investment/antitrust approvals — pending, not yet closed as of 2026-09-06.
Named counterparties identified by open-source research and written only where a primary source states the relationship — never inferred from sector or co-mention. 2 suppliers, 1 customer-side. This is a partial view: it covers the relationships we could evidence, not the company's full supply base.
eVAC Magnetics (VAC Group) release on first magnets shipped from Sumter, South Carolina: its South Carolina facility sources key raw materials through a strategic partnership with MP Materials, which supplies neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) feedstock from its Mountain Pass mine in California. Mine and magnet plant are both in the US, so the route is domestic US; no NdPr to VAC Hanau (DE) is stated. No volume or value disclosed.
VAC newsroom: 10-year exclusive agreement for Cyclic Materials to recycle 100% of NdFeB magnet-production swarf (byproduct) from VAC's Sumter, SC facility into mixed rare-earth oxides (rMREOs); VAC holds the option to reintegrate the rMREOs back into its own production. Extends a 2024 partnership. No volume or value disclosed.
Scope. Absence of a counterparty here is not evidence that none exists — most commercial sourcing is confidential and never becomes public. Rows without a share figure mean no share was disclosed, not that the relationship is small.
Another tracked dossier names this company as a counterparty in its own sourced disclosure — this platform never wrote these rows on this company's own page, they are read here inverted from the dossier that disclosed them. This is a partial view: 999 additional named-counterparty rows across the corpus could not be matched to a tracked dossier by name at all (mostly non-Latin legal names), so the true count is higher than what renders here.
MoU signed 22 Oct 2025 for a proposed offtake of clean mixed rare-earth carbonate (MREC) from Longonjo to VAC's eVAC Magnetics facility, Sumter SC (initial magnet output 2,000 tpa rising to 12,000 tpa by 2029); proposed initial 5-year term subject to extension, pricing to be agreed. Not yet a binding supply agreement.
Scope. This section is inverted evidence: each linked dossier wrote the original row about itself, describing its own relationship to this company. It is never a claim this company itself disclosed. Absence here is not evidence of no relationship — most of the corpus has no named-counterparty block at all yet.
Every exposure is read as a buyer dependency; the top 3 are its binding chokepoints.
Dossier discloses a dysprosium, terbium or samarium material exposure directly — A61 §1(2) names Dy/Tb-containing NdFeB and SmCo magnets by element.
A61's suspension (Announcement 70) lapses 10 Nov 2026 — on the plain text, controls revive automatically. The US DoD CN/RU/IR/KP sourcing bar follows 1 Jan 2027. See the underlying extraterritorial export-control action. We supply the provenance file; we never compute your ratio for you.
As a buyer, policy pressure across its consumed materials is rising.
Descriptive trend in official policy actions on this company’s materials — a policy-pressure trend, not a price or trading signal. No forward probability is implied. Direction is measured on actions we have discovered, and discovery lags events: where the recent window is too thin to support a calm reading, the row says coverage-limited instead of easing.
No actions in the register have named or swept this company in the last 24 months.