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Umicore Cathode Material Plant
Umicore
Loyalist Township, ON, Canada
-76.73644, 44.2055375
The Big Green Machine Site ID: 52
Additional Information:
Sector: Batteries
Activity: Manufacturing
Product: Battery Cell Components
Project Announcement Date: 7/13/2022
Target for Starting Production: 2026
Announced Post Inflation Reduction Act: No
Target Annual Production: 35 GWh
Operating Status: Paused
Target Jobs: 600
Capital Investment: $1530 million
Government Subsidies:
Local/State: $715 million
Selected Sources:
“Umicore prépare la construction d’une usine de production de matériaux pour batteries, la première du genre au Canada”, umicore.com, 13 Jul 2022. 🔗
“Umicore prepares to construct first-of-its-kind battery materials production plant in Loyalist”, loyalist.ca, 12 Jul 2022. 🔗
“Umicore breaks ground on multibillion-dollar battery plant in Loyalist”, Michelle Dorey Forestell, Kingstonist News - 100% local, independent news in Kingston, ON, 16 Oct 2023. 🔗
“Umicore Shares up as Canada Offers Subsidies for Battery Plant in Ontario”, world-energy.org, 17 Oct 2023. 🔗
“Umicore Pauses Ontario Battery Plant, Rethinks Plans as EV Demand Cools”, The Energy Mix, 31 Jul 2024. 🔗
“BMW localising North American battery supply chain despite EV slowdown”, Simon Warburton, Automotive Logistics, 16 Sep 2024. 🔗
“Umicore to pause construction of battery materials plant in Canada”, Nathan Vifflin, Reuters, 06 Nov 2024. 🔗
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