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CLEAN • SMART • REFINING
syntrarefining.com
CLEAN • SMART • REFINING
We build midstream refining infrastructure for North America's critical minerals supply chain — designed for domestic feedstocks, operated at commercial scale.
Build North America's critical minerals refining infrastructure, closing the midstream bottleneck between mining and industrial end markets.
North American manufacturers depend on foreign jurisdictions for more than 85% of refined critical minerals. Syntra builds advanced hydrometallurgical refining infrastructure to process domestic feedstocks — concentrates, black mass, and manufacturing scrap — to battery-grade and industrial-grade specifications. Current focus is commercial-scale battery mineral production.
A distributed network of modular SYNHUB™ facilities securing North America's critical minerals supply chains across battery, aerospace, defence, and advanced industrial sectors.
A distributed network of SYNHUB™ facilities capable of processing concentrate, scrap, and black mass from domestic and allied sources — delivering certified battery-grade and industrial-grade outputs to North American manufacturers.
"North America has the geology, the capital, and the demand. What's missing is the infrastructure to connect them. Syntra exists to build that infrastructure."
Nifemi Oguntuase, Founder & CEOSyntra was built to close a specific gap — North America mines the minerals but ships concentrate offshore for refining. We build the infrastructure to do that domestically.
Syntra Refining was founded after founder Nifemi Oguntuase identified a fundamental structural inefficiency in North America's critical minerals value chain. While billions flowed into upstream mining and downstream industrial manufacturing, the midstream refining infrastructure required to connect them remained fragmented and offshore.
Through extensive technical research and market analysis, it became clear that the constraint wasn't demand, geology, or capital availability. The constraint was refining capacity. North American manufacturers were dependent on foreign jurisdictions for more than 85% of refined critical minerals, creating supply chain vulnerabilities across battery, aerospace, defence, and advanced manufacturing sectors.
Syntra was established to deploy advanced clean hydrometallurgical refining infrastructure capable of processing complex domestic feedstocks to certified purity specifications across multiple critical minerals applications, with initial deployment focused on battery-grade minerals, operating at commercial scale with economic efficiency.
Pilot operations in Halifax, Nova Scotia demonstrated technical feasibility and economic viability of our refining approach. Process validation confirmed our systems could handle variable feedstock compositions while maintaining consistent purity output, a critical capability for processing domestic minerals with complex geochemistry.
Ten strategic partnerships secured with mining operations and industrial manufacturers. Critical mineral purity specifications validated at 98%+, confirming commercial readiness of the hydrometallurgical process across battery-grade and advanced alloy applications.
Facility-scale refining infrastructure development in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This phase marks Syntra's evolution from technology developer to infrastructure developer, targeting 1,000 TPA initial capacity processing nickel, cobalt, and lithium-bearing feedstocks from North American mining operations.
Commercial facility design and engineering completed. Offtake agreements secured with major automotive OEMs. Feedstock supply partnerships with mining operations established. Site preparation and permitting underway.
With pilot validation complete and construction of SYNHUB™ Halifax underway, Syntra is planning additional modular refining capacity across strategic North American locations, focusing on proximity to mining operations and key industrial demand centres across battery, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing sectors.
Our modular infrastructure approach enables rapid deployment with capital efficiency. Each facility is designed for feedstock flexibility, allowing us to process variable mineral compositions while delivering consistent certified output specifications across battery-grade minerals and broader strategic minerals applications.
Building critical minerals refining infrastructure requires deep technical expertise, sound financial judgment, and the ability to execute in a complex regulatory and industrial environment.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nifemi Oguntuase founded Syntra Refining after identifying a fundamental structural inefficiency in North America's critical minerals value chain. With expertise spanning mineral process chemistry, institutional resource finance, and exploration consulting, she recognized what capital markets had systematically undervalued: the midstream refining bottleneck.
Under her leadership, Syntra is establishing the refining infrastructure backbone that makes domestic supply chains economically competitive and strategically secure.
"North America has the geology, the capital, and the demand. What's missing is the infrastructure to connect them. Syntra exists to build that infrastructure."
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Syntra Refining is currently onboarding strategic partners for the 2027 production cycle.
Headquarters
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Atlantic Time Zone (AST)