India, May 20 -- Indium Corp. has been awarded a $3.2 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) to develop a domestic process for recovering high-purity gallium from manufacturing by-products-a critical step toward establishing a secure, domestic supply chain for a material essential to modern defense systems, semiconductors, and advanced electronics.

Indium is one of five organizations selected under the DoE's Technology for Recovery and Advanced Critical-material Extraction - Gallium (TRACE-Ga) initiative, which aims to rapidly prototype novel technologies for gallium recovery from U.S. metal processing feedstocks. The U.S. has not produced gallium domestically since...