Top 10 Europium Producers in 2026

• Europium producers are concentrated almost entirely in China’s ionic-clay belt, where europium occurs in commercially recoverable concentrations that light-REE deposits like Bayan Obo and Mountain Pass largely lack.
• China Rare Earth Group and China Northern Rare Earth Group anchor the top of this list, but the most specific verified europium output comes from a smaller, less-discussed name: China Rare Earth Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.
• No Western company currently produces separated europium oxide at commercial scale — Lynas, MP Materials, and Neo Performance Materials have each stated it is a future, not current, product line.
• Energy Fuels and Indian Rare Earths Limited handle europium-bearing monazite feedstock, but separation into individual europium oxide happens downstream, mostly in China or Europe.
• This ranking is based on confirmed separation and processing capability as of 2026, not resource size or exploration potential.

Europium producers rarely make headlines the way neodymium or dysprosium suppliers do, but europium’s role in red phosphors, LED lighting, and nuclear control rods keeps steady industrial demand behind a market most investors overlook. Unlike the light rare earths that dominate NdFeB magnet supply chains, europium is a medium-to-heavy rare earth element that concentrates almost exclusively in ionic-clay deposits and monazite sands — a mineralogical fact that quietly determines who can actually produce it and who cannot, whatever headline resource figures a company reports.

How We Ranked the Top 10 Europium Producers

This ranking of europium producers is based on confirmed separation or processing capability as of 2026, verified through company filings, exchange announcements, and industry reporting — not resource size, exploration stage, or aspirational roadmaps. Companies that produce europium-bearing ore or concentrate but do not separate it into oxide form are included where they matter structurally to the supply chain, but are ranked and described accordingly.

1. China Rare Earth Group — China

China Rare Earth Group was formed in 2021 through the state-directed consolidation of six southern Chinese rare earth producers, including China Minmetals Rare Earth, Chinalco Rare Earth, and Ganzhou Rare Earth. It controls the ionic-clay deposits of Jiangxi and neighbouring provinces — the geological source that yields the overwhelming majority of the world’s medium and heavy rare earths, europium included. Because ionic-clay ore can be processed with simpler in-situ leaching methods than hard-rock bastnaesite, the group’s southern axis has become China’s primary europium producers supply base, feeding downstream separation facilities across Jiangxi and Guangdong. Beijing’s biannual mining quota system, administered jointly with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, sets the group’s effective ceiling on europium-bearing ore output each year.

2. China Northern Rare Earth Group — China

China Northern Rare Earth (Group) High-Tech Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600111) operates the Bayan Obo deposit in Inner Mongolia, the world’s largest known rare earth reserve by volume. Bayan Obo’s bastnaesite-monazite mineralogy is dominated by light rare earths — cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, and praseodymium — with europium present only as a minor by-product stream rather than a primary target. China Northern’s scale still makes it relevant among europium producers, since even a small percentage share of its enormous throughput translates into meaningful absolute tonnage, and the company’s January 2026 output figures showed continued growth in both metals and functional materials production. Its europium contribution should be read as a volume effect of overall scale, not a specialised europium program.

3. China Rare Earth Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. — China

Formerly known as Rising Nonferrous Metals (SHA: 600259) and headquartered in Guangzhou, this Guangdong-based producer is one of the few companies globally to list europium oxide and yttrium-europium oxide explicitly among its named product lines, alongside dysprosium, terbium, and holmium oxides. That level of product-line specificity is unusual in this sector and makes the company one of the more directly verifiable europium producers on this list. It mines, smelts, and separates ionic-clay rare earths and non-ferrous metals across Guangdong province, and its published product portfolio names europium oxide directly rather than folding it into a generic “heavy rare earths” category, as most competitors do.

4. Shenghe Resources — China

Shenghe Resources Holding Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600392) is one of the most internationally active Chinese rare earth companies, with domestic separation operations and an expanding overseas footprint including its Ngualla project stake in Tanzania and Fungoni heavy mineral sands operation. Shenghe’s H1 2026 results showed revenue up more than 40% year-on-year, and the company has stated an ambition to become a global rare earth leader by 2028. Its domestic ionic-clay feedstock and processing agreements position it as a significant europium producers supplier, though the bulk of its public disclosure emphasises NdPr and overall REO volumes rather than europium specifically. See our full profile: Shenghe Resources.

5. Xiamen Tungsten — China

Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600549) built its rare earth business alongside its core tungsten and molybdenum operations, holding stakes in Fujian province’s ionic-clay resources through its Zhongxi Xiamen Tungsten joint venture. The company’s rare earth segment posted H1 2026 revenue growth above 50% year-on-year, with expanding magnetic materials sales, and it has cooperated with both China Rare Earth Group and China Northern Rare Earth on smelting and separation projects. Fujian’s ionic-clay geology carries a similar heavy-REE profile to Jiangxi’s, making Xiamen Tungsten a credible if lower-profile europium producers contributor within China’s southern rare earth axis.

6. Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) — India

IREL, a wholly state-owned undertaking under India’s Department of Atomic Energy, processes monazite sands at Odisha, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu into separated rare earth compounds including lanthanum, cerium, neodymium-praseodymium, samarium, gadolinium, and yttrium. Europium is present in Indian monazite in trace concentrations, but IREL’s published product list does not name a dedicated separated europium oxide line — its europium content most likely remains within mixed rare earth chloride and unrefined fractions rather than reaching commercial separation. IREL is included here for its geographic diversification value and monazite-processing scale, not as a confirmed high-purity europium producer.

7. Lynas Rare Earths — Australia / Malaysia

Lynas Rare Earths (ASX: LYC) mines Mt Weld in Western Australia and separates rare earths at its Malaysian advanced materials plant in Kuantan, where it became the first company outside China to produce separated heavy rare earths, bringing dysprosium, terbium, and now samarium oxide to commercial output through 2025 and 2026. Europium is a different story: Lynas has explicitly stated that europium, holmium, ytterbium, and erbium production will be “considered based on commercial agreements that provide an appropriate return,” meaning it is a planned future addition to the flowsheet, not a current product. Lynas belongs on this list as the clearest Western name to watch for europium producers status, but it is not yet a producer of it.

8. MP Materials — United States

MP Materials (NYSE: MP) operates the only rare earth mine and processing site of scale in North America at Mountain Pass, California, and reported record NdPr production through 2026 alongside continued expansion of its Fort Worth magnetics facility. The company’s heavy rare earth separation capability, which would be the pathway to any europium output, only began commissioning at Mountain Pass in 2026 following a gadolinium supply deal announced earlier in the year. MP Materials is realistically years away from confirmed europium production and should be read as an emerging, not current, entrant among europium producers.

9. Neo Performance Materials — Canada / Europe

Neo Performance Materials (TSX: NEO) previously operated rare earth separation facilities in Zibo and Jiangyin, China, that historically handled a broader range of separated products. Neo sold its majority equity interest in both facilities to Shenghe Resources in a transaction completed in 2025, exiting Chinese separation entirely to focus on its Silmet plant in Estonia. Silmet successfully commissioned a heavy rare earth separation line producing dysprosium and terbium process solutions in April 2026 — a genuine milestone for European supply chain independence — but no europium production has been announced at Silmet or elsewhere in Neo’s current operations. Any europium capability the company once had in China has effectively left with the asset sale.

10. Energy Fuels — United States

Energy Fuels (NYSE: UUUU) processes monazite sands at its White Mesa Mill in Utah into a mixed rare earth carbonate, capturing europium among the full suite of rare earths present in the ore alongside uranium and thorium as co-products. Energy Fuels does not separate europium into oxide form itself; its RE carbonate is shipped downstream, historically to Neo’s European facility, for separation into individual products. Energy Fuels is best understood as a europium-bearing feedstock supplier to the Western supply chain rather than a europium producer in the separated-oxide sense that applies to the Chinese names topping this list.

Europium Producers — Comparative Overview

The Outlook for Europium Producers

The structural picture for europium producers is unlikely to change quickly. Europium’s concentration in ionic-clay ore rather than the bastnaesite and hard-rock deposits favoured by most non-Chinese exploration projects means Western supply chain diversification — which has moved fast on neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium — has not yet reached europium in any commercial sense. Lynas, MP Materials, and Neo Performance Materials all have credible technical pathways to eventual europium output, but each has said, implicitly or explicitly, that the economics do not yet justify the additional separation investment relative to current europium producers demand.

Europium oxide traded at roughly current SMM benchmark levels in late 2026, a price point that has not moved sharply enough to force Western producers to prioritise it over dysprosium, terbium, or samarium separation lines. Until europium’s end-use demand — primarily red phosphors and specialty lighting — grows enough to justify dedicated Western capacity, China’s ionic-clay producers, and China Rare Earth Nonferrous Metals in particular, will remain the default answer to who actually produces europium at scale. For broader context on what europium is used for and how its supply chain works, and how europium producers fit within the wider landscape of Chinese rare earth companies, see our related coverage.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Company data is sourced from public filings, exchange announcements, and industry reporting as of Q3 2026; figures are subject to revision.