KITAKYUSHU – Kosei Co., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of nonferrous metals, has built a factory in Kitakyushu to extract rhenium, a very rare earth element, from the turbine blades of scrapped jet engines.
The factory, which company and city officials say is the first of its kind in Japan, was unveiled to reporters Wednesday.
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