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| Plant | Kind | Stage | Country | Operator | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATL Ningde Plants Ningde, Fujian | Gigafactory | Component | China | Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) | Copper, Graphite, Lithium, Phosphate Rock |
| Chinese NdFeB Magnet Cluster Ningbo, Baotou, Ganzhou | Magnet plant | Component | China | JL MAG, Zhongke Sanhuan and others | Boron, Dysprosium, Iron Ore, Neodymium… |
| Gigafactory Nevada Storey County, Nevada | Gigafactory | Component | United States | Tesla with Panasonic Energy | Aluminium, Cobalt, Copper, Graphite, Lithium… |
| Samsung Pyeongtaek Campus Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi | Semiconductor fab | Component | South Korea | Samsung Electronics | Copper, Helium, Silicon, Tungsten |
| TSMC Fab 18, Tainan Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan | Semiconductor fab | Component | Taiwan | TSMC | Cobalt, Copper, Hafnium, Helium, High-Purity… |
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CATL Ningde Plants
CATL's scale is the reason lithium iron phosphate went from a second-tier chemistry to the majority of new cells…
Chinese NdFeB Magnet Cluster
Between separated oxide and a working motor sits magnet making: alloy strip casting, hydrogen decrepitation, jet…
Gigafactory Nevada
A cell factory is where materials stop being commodities and become a product: cathode powder, graphite anode, copper…
Samsung Pyeongtaek Campus
Memory chips are made by the billion, which makes them the most material-hungry part of the chip industry by volume.
TSMC Fab 18, Tainan
A leading-edge fab consumes ultrapure silicon wafers, dozens of specialty gases including neon and helium, tungsten…