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Jim Breuer and the long way to the top
Before he became Fluor’s CEO, Jim Breuer spent half his career on assignments outside the United States. His next assignment is to turn that accumulated experience into growth that survives contact with a construction site.
Sam Ataya and the distance between a sample and a factory
At Western Magnesium, Sam Ataya has spent years connecting capital, customers and a new production process. His ambition is an American supply of magnesium; his task is turning pilot results into a business that can deliver it.
Bill Oplinger and the education of an aluminum CEO
He spent a decade keeping Alcoa’s financial score. Now Bill Oplinger is putting his engineering and operating experience behind a larger bet on the journey from mine to metal.
Tidal Metals
Tidal Metals is a Trenton/Hamilton, New Jersey deep-tech company that extracts primary magnesium metal from seawater and desalination brine using nothing but renewable electricity and physical processes - no ore mining, no carbon emissions, and no waste stream. Founded by three plasma-physics PhDs who met at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the company aims to rebuild a domestic U.S. magnesium supply chain currently dominated by China, serving aerospace, defense, and next-generation automotive manufacturing.