waste elimination

CKRC helps manufacturers and their partners build resilient, high-performing businesses by diagnosing system-wide issues and implementing holistic, enduring solutions. The firm performs independent third-party assessments using executive leadership, supply chain management, and manufacturing engineering expertise to evaluate supplier performance and identify root causes behind KPI symptoms, with experience across defense, aerospace, and commercial manufacturing.

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Capacity planningcontinuous improvementcorrective action planningfacility layout designfactory consolidationLeadership coachingmake-buy evaluationmanufacturing process developmentmaster schedulingM&A supportroot cause analysissupplier performance assessmentsupply chain consolidationvalue stream mapping

FAST Metals is a company that recovers critical minerals from industrial waste streams, primarily red mud (bauxite residue) from alumina refineries. Its process removes iron first, then extracts iron, alumina, titania, and rare earths from a single feedstock in a single pass at sellable grade. The company deploys mobile modular skids at customer sites and acquires mineral-rich waste such as red mud and tailings.

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critical mineral recoveryde-ironinghydrometallurgical processingmobile modular processing skids