top of page

INDIVIDUAL FACILITIES AND SELECTED SOURCES
Below is basic information about individual facilities in our database and selected sources we've drawn on to support the analysis.  To navigate to other sites, use the search page.

Company logo

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. 🔗


Tracked Expansions, Acquisitions, or Related Sites:

We currently have no related projects tracked for this site.

This website, dashboard, and dataset are maintained by Jay Turner and student researchers in the Environmental Studies Department at Wellesley College. It is updated at least monthly. The data presented are compiled from publicly available sources. Summary statistics are incomplete and omit data from sites where publicly available information (regarding capital investments, employment levels, etc.) is unavailable. While we make every effort to ensure the information presented here is accurate, the information should be treated as estimates. We assume no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions. The information contained in this site is provided on an "as is" basis with no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, or usefulness. 
The data on this site was last updated on March 19, 2025.

Wellesley College Logo
bottom of page