About
About ReGen
We build where others walked away.
ReGen Resource Recovery is a global critical minerals company. We recover already manufactured synthetic graphite from former world class manufacturing sites in Canada, the United States and Italy, and process it for battery and other critical applications.
Our synthetic graphite already exists, produced by thousands of Americans, Canadians and Europeans and left behind when production was displaced to China. ReGen has developed a critical supply solution at the intersection of past world-class manufacturing expertise and the needs of North America, Europe and the wider world, now and into the future.
What we believe
- 01
Build on generations of world class production.
Every ReGen site is a former world class synthetic graphite manufacturing site. ReGen is returning that legacy to productive use.
- 02
Use what already exists.
The ReGen synthetic graphite is already on the ReGen sites and offers a shorter path to supply.
- 03
Honour the work that came before.
Our synthetic graphite was produced by thousands of Americans, Canadians and Europeans. Their work is the foundation of supply certainty for the future.
- 04
Supply North America and Europe from within.
Supply chain security and resiliency come from using material that is already in North America and Europe, rather than relying on imports from China.
“I have spent my career redeveloping sites where plants closed and people lost their jobs. Their work is now a North American answer to a North American supply problem, and a source of new jobs and investment.”
Our leadership
ReGen is founder-led. Steve Charest, Chairman and Founder, spent his career acquiring, remediating and redeveloping abandoned industrial properties; the Welland site was one of them.
Board of directors
Steve Charest
Chairman and Founder
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David Pathe
Director; Chief Executive Officer
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Glenn Ives
Director; Chief Financial Officer
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Paul Grespan
Director; Chief Development Officer
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Meghan Charest
Director
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Paul Stein
Director
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Flavio Volpe
Director
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Craig Gilchrist
Director
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Our progress
From closure to production.
Every ReGen site is a former world class manufacturing facility where production ended and the synthetic graphite stayed. Welland is where the model was proven first.
1906
The Union Carbide plant in Welland opens and goes on to produce synthetic graphite.
2018
Steve Charest acquires the former plant site, intending to redevelop it.
2020–2024
ReGen acquires former synthetic graphite manufacturing sites across the United States and Europe.
May 2024
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, visit the Welland site.
November 2024
ReGen wins the 2024 Brownie Award for Best Large Project, presented by the Canadian Urban Institute with the Canadian Brownfields Network.
March 2026
ReGen and Linamar Corporation announce a strategic alliance for the Welland site. The same day, the Government of Canada names the Welland project in the second round of the Critical Minerals Production Alliance.
September 2026
ReGen Resource Recovery was proud to be part of the Canada Investment Summit, which took place on September 14–15, as one of the projects included in the prospectus.
October 2026
ReGen begins test pitting and recovery operations at its Tennessee site in the United States.
