Clarios, a United States low -voltage battlefront manufacturer and recycler, plans to invest up to $ 1 billion to build a U.S. critical mineral processing and recovery plant, according to a May 20 press release. The project is aligned with the aim of the Trump administration to increase the chain of domestic metal supply and responds to China’s export ban to critical minerals.
Clarios is in conversations with Indiana, Texas and Utah officials on possible locations, according to the statement. The project is the first $ 6 billion plan of the company, which includes $ 1.9 billion for the processing and recovery of critical minerals.
“We have several investments that we actively explore and foresee additional ads in the future,” said Adam Muellerweiss, Clarios’ sustainability chief in an email to the supply chain.
The planned installation would be extracted metaloid Antimony of used batteries collected in all United States to strengthen the production of domestic batteries, Muellerweiss He said at the American Battery Technologies battery summit, held on the same day as the plant’s announcement.
In December, China banned the export of antimony and other critical minerals used in military and civil applications in the United States, which significantly raised the need for the Clarios recycling plant, said Muellerweiss, saying that recycled batteries “have more antimonium from any source here in the United States.”
In an email, Muellerweiss said that the actions taken by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have made it possible for Clarios to invest in strengthening the country’s critical minerals.
Since January, Trump has issued nine executive orders that affected the critical processing of minerals, refine and deployment, said Muellerweiss. In 2022, Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which established Advanced Manufacturing Tax Credit. The AMPTC is also known as the 45x fiscal credit.
“We aim to use the 45X tax credit to take initiative on the executive orders of President Trump and the agenda to revitalize the industrial base of America,” said Muellerweiss. “Our forecast for critical mineral processing and refinement of $ 1 billion minerals will be an important part of strengthening not only our supply chain as a company, but also the nation’s supply chain.”
Muellerweiss added that Congress should extend elements of the 45x fiscal credit, which expires in 2032 in at least a decade “to make America dominate in the processing and refining of critical minerals.”
