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2 critical materials scored · binding chokepoint: Niobium (🇧🇷 BR 89% of refining) · 18 restrictive government measures on record
The binding exposure is Niobium — 🇧🇷 BR controls 89% of global refining. On this company's production footprint that scores 61/100 (neutral exposure; global 61). The register holds 18 restrictive government measures touching this company's materials — each traced to its primary source below.
Peer rank · Niobium Faurecia Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o. (FORVIA) is the 125th-most-exposed of the 227 named companies we track on 🇧🇷 BR's Niobium chokepoint; the most-exposed is Sojitz Corporation (61/100). Ranked on the same footprint-adjusted buyer score as above — a relative read of an existing metric, not a new one.
Where the 166 verified automotive companies we track sit.
Same sector_primary, ranked on the company supply-risk index. Restricted to hand-verified dossiers — 68 further automotive companies are tracked but auto-onboarded, and excluded here because their exposure list is a sector template rather than company research. A peer scoring lower is the useful read: it usually means a different production geography or a qualified second source.
Company supply-risk index 59/100 — the binding chokepoint dominates, with a modest add for exposure breadth across 2 scored materials. Buyer-relative (first-order): weighted by where the company produces (CZ 100%, estimated split — no cited source states these exact shares), applied across all materials — it does not yet trace each input to its specific sourcing step.
Disclosed production sites
Named plants and what they make, from the company's disclosures. Descriptive detail — the buyer score above is still driven by country-level footprint weights, not per-site material intensity.
Faurecia Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o. (registered name per the Czech Commercial Register, IČO 26100045; commonly branded "Faurecia Czech Republic") is the Czech operating arm of Forvia (formerly Faurecia), the French Tier-1 automotive supplier and a wholly-treated subsidiary of Forvia SE (frvia-pa). Its Czech plants span three of Forvia's legacy business lines: metal seat-structure manufacturing (Písek, Nýřany/Plzeň), Clean Mobility exhaust/emissions-control systems — exhaust pipes, catalysts, particulate filters, and SCR ("BlueBox") systems — at Písek, Bakov nad Jizerou and Bezděčín, and interior-trim plants at Mladá Boleslav, Pardubice and Plazy. Customers include BMW, Porsche, VW Group, Škoda, Volvo, PSA/Opel, and GM Europe. The business is entirely mechanical/structural and emissions-hardware — Forvia's electronics and e-mobility (motors, power electronics) segments have no confirmed presence at these Czech sites.
components (mid-pipes, catalyst cans, particulate-filter housings) are industry-standard manufactured from ferritic stainless steel (commonly grade 409 and variants, ~10.5-12% chromium) for heat and corrosion resistance over the vehicle's warranty life — cited as the dominant OEM exhaust material across roughly 70-80% of passenger vehicles globally. This matches Faurecia Clean Mobility's confirmed Czech product scope (exhaust pipes, catalysts, particulate filters for VW/Škoda, Volvo, PSA).
co-stabilized with titanium, e.g. grade 441) is a documented, industry-standard alloying addition to automotive exhaust-system ferritic stainless steel, chosen for weldability and high-temperature strength at the hot end of the exhaust — distinct from and in addition to plain 409-grade chromium stainless.
Dropped as unsupported for this entity: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium (no motor/magnet manufacturing found), lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite (no battery-cell production), vanadium (legacy SCR chemistry, largely superseded by Cu-zeolite in light-duty applications), aluminium, copper, silicon, tin (plausible incidental content, not confirmed as defining).
1. Forvia — "Ultra-low emissions" (Clean Mobility exhaust/SCR/particulate-filter scope): https://www.forvia.com/en/pioneering-technologies/electrification-and-energy-management/ultra-low-emissions 2. Faurecia Czech Republic — company/plant overview: https://www.faurecia-cz.cz/en/about-us/discover-faurecia-czech-republic 3. Motorindia — "Niobium microalloyed ferritic stainless steel for automotive exhaust system": https://www.motorindiaonline.in/niobium-microalloyed-ferritic-stainless-steel-for-automotive-exhaust-system/ 4. Czech Commercial Register (Ministry of Justice) — legal name, IČO 26100045, registered seat: https://or.justice.cz/ias/ui/rejstrik-$firma?ico=26100045
From the company’s own filings and dated disclosures — top-5 concentration and related-party tables where the filer’s regime compels them, named supply and offtake agreements where it does not. This is a disclosure, not a netting: a named supplier concentration is shown beside the exposure score and never adjusts it. Figures are the fiscal years labelled, not a current snapshot.
Named as a key customer of both the Písek (metal seat structures, 'BMW, Porsche, Porsche Panamera, VW Group, PSA Group, and GM Europe') and Nýřany ('seats for 4 key customers: BMW, OPEL, VW, and Mercedes Benz') plants, per Faurecia Czech Republic's own site. No customer-specific revenue share disclosed.
Alternative track — a counterparty read from primary filings, never merged into the exposure score. Absence of a name is not absence of a relationship: Filers name only the counterparties their regime compels them to name, and several of this company’s largest are disclosed by size with no name at all.
Ranked by buyer-relative risk, highest first.
| Material | Controlled by | You | Global | Band | Art. 5 | Input share | Substitute | Laws | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niobium | 🇧🇷 BR 89% refining | 61 | 61 | Elevated | — | Low | some | 5 | ▲ rising |
| Chromium | 🇨🇳 CN 46% refining | 49 | 42 | Moderate | — | Med | hard | 13 | ▲ rising |
You = buyer-relative score (this company's disclosed footprint vs. the controller). Global = buyer-agnostic supply risk. Substitute = ease of swapping the material out (none = locked in). Input share = the material's disclosed magnitude in the company's input basket (HIGH/MED/LOW only where a public filing quantifies it; — = unrated). Descriptive effect-size, never scored.
Art. 5 = does the global top single-country share breach the EU's own CRMA Art. 5 diversification ceiling (no more than 65% of a strategic raw material from a single third country)? A conservative global-production PROXY for the EU-import denominator — descriptive only, sits beside the score, never merged into it (— = non-strategic material). Reg. (EU) 2024/1252 Art. 5 ↗
Per-material factor scoring on a 1–5 likelihood×impact scale, mapped to the Art. 24(2)(b) risk-factor framework. The headline score above is a portfolio RAG; this matrix is the assessment — it is where two companies with the same binding chokepoint diverge.
| Material | Geopolitical | Concentration | Price / market | Substitutability | Import reliance | Logistics · ESG · Supplier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niobium | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | company input |
| Chromium | 4 | 2 | – | 4 | – | company input |
1 = very low … 5 = very high — a standard supply-risk likelihood×impact scale (the form a competent authority expects for the Art. 24(2)(b) factor analysis, not a CRMA-numbered scale). Public-source factors are pre-filled from the engine's primary sources (USGS concentration, IPTM government actions, EU import data); the three rightmost factor categories need company / Tier-1 supplier data and are flagged as input under Art. 24(3). Hover any cell for its evidence.
Every new filing and every amendment (rate change, scope change, repeal) touching this company's materials in the window above. Append ?since=YYYY-MM-DD to this URL for a custom start date.
Restrictive government measures on this company's materials, newest first — each links to its primary government source.
+ 3 more in the register.
The Art. 24(2)(c) vulnerability assessment, made explicit. For each leading exposure we model the move in this company's buyer-relative score under two distinct supply-disruption scenarios — the production footprint held fixed, only one lever moved at a time so each delta isolates one shock:
Under the 🇧🇷 BR shock, these disclosed plants carry the binding Niobium exposure:
| Type | Scenario | Today | Stressed | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Policy | Niobium — 🇧🇷 BR escalates niobium controls to a full export-licensing / ban regime | 61 | 71 | +10 |
| Concentration | Niobium — 🇧🇷 BR becomes the single source for niobium — the second source is lost (full 89%+ monopoly) | 61 | 68 | +7 |
| Policy | Chromium — 🇨🇳 CN escalates chromium controls to a full export-licensing / ban regime | 49 | 56 | +7 |
| Concentration | Chromium — 🇨🇳 CN becomes the single source for chromium — the second source is lost (full 46%+ monopoly) | 49 | 79 | +30 |
A zero delta means that lever is already modelled at maximum on that material — today's score already prices it in. This is why the two scenarios are shown together: where a material's policy lever is already maxed (zero policy delta), the concentration shock still carries a real delta, and vice-versa. Each stressed score isolates its one lever; all other factors are held at current values.
No material crosses the significant-vulnerability threshold. The Art. 24(4) mitigation duty is not triggered on the factors we could score (2 of 10 inputs unrated across the materials bought). Absence of data is not evidence of low risk — an unrated factor enters the score as zero, not as an estimate, so this conclusion could change once those inputs are rated. The mitigations below are precautionary.
Stated threshold (so the conclusion is reproducible and auditable): buyer-relative band ≥ High AND substitutability hard/none AND ≥ 1 in-force restrictive measure on the material, assessed over the materials this company buys. The CRMA does not fix a numeric definition of “significant”; the company may adopt a stricter or looser threshold and should record it here.
Proposed, announced or draft regulation that is not yet in force but would touch this company's at-risk materials if it passes. Forward-looking early-warning — the likelihood shown is an honest band derived from the legislative stage, not a forecast or a fabricated probability. Kept separate from the enacted register above: nothing here is law yet.
Likelihood band is derived deterministically from the legislative stage (announced → low; draft-published / in-consultation → moderate; passed-committee → elevated; passed-vote / awaiting-signature → high) — a reproducible, source-traceable proxy, not a probability estimate. Where shown, the modelled impact-if-passed re-uses the same buyer-relative stress engine as the enacted scenarios above: it holds this company's production footprint fixed and escalates the proposed measure to a full export-licensing / control regime — the conservative upper bound for a measure that may pass only as a partial cap. The delta is the move from today's score to that stressed score; companies with no modelled production footprint show no delta.
Forward-looking read on the binding chokepoint, from the recent trajectory of policy on these materials. Directional, not a forecast.
The mitigating efforts Art. 24(4) names — diversifying the supply chain and substituting the material — plus the standard levers against a concentrated, policy-exposed input. Prioritise around the binding input chokepoint (Niobium).
Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (Reg. (EU) 2024/1252), a Member State identifies the large companies (Art. 2(29): >500 employees and >€150M net worldwide turnover) using strategic raw materials to manufacture a listed strategic technology (batteries, renewables, hydrogen, traction motors, heat pumps, aircraft, data-storage equipment, robotics, drones, satellites, advanced chips). Those companies must, at least every three years and to the extent the information is available to them (Art. 24(2)), assess their strategic-raw-material supply chain. Where suppliers do not provide the data on request, the assessment may rely on the Commission's monitoring dashboard (Art. 20(4)) or other publicly available information (Art. 24(3)) — which is the evidence base this report assembles. Board reporting (Art. 24(5)) is voluntary unless the Member State mandates it (Art. 24(6)).
| CRMA provision | Obligation | Where addressed |
|---|---|---|
| Art. 24(1) | Member State identifies the company as in-scope (uses an SRM to make a listed strategic technology). | Scope & applicability |
| Art. 24(2)(a) | Map where the strategic raw materials are extracted, processed and recycled. | Exposure register + Supply-risk factor analysis |
| Art. 24(2)(b) | Analyse the factors that might affect supply. | Supply-risk factor analysis (factor matrix) + The laws that threaten it |
| Art. 24(2)(c) | Assess vulnerabilities to supply disruptions. | Stress test + significant-vulnerability conclusion |
| Art. 24(3) | Where supplier data is unavailable, rely on Commission (Art. 20(4)) / public sources. | This report's basis — see Methodology & sources |
| Art. 24(4) | Where significant vulnerabilities are found, assess diversifying or substituting. | Significant-vulnerability conclusion + Priority mitigations |
| Art. 24(5)–(6) | Report results, sources, significant risks and mitigations to the board. | This document — board-ready, PDF-exportable |
This report pre-fills the Art. 24(3) public-source half of the assessment. The company-specific inputs — employee/turnover thresholds, bill-of-materials volumes, the tiered supplier map, and formal board adoption — remain the company's to complete; they are flagged as “company input” where they appear.
Article 24 applies only when both size thresholds are met and a Member State has identified the company as making a listed strategic technology with strategic raw materials.
| Threshold test | This assessment |
|---|---|
| Average employees (last FY) > 500 | company input |
| Net worldwide turnover (last FY) > €150M | company input |
| Uses a strategic raw material as an input | Yes — 2 scored SRMs on the input side (binding: Niobium) |
| Manufactures a listed strategic technology | automotive (confirm against Annex) |
| Formally identified by a Member State authority | company input |
Production-concentration figures: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 + the production dataset behind each material page. Policy measures trace to the primary government sources below.
Each material's global supply-risk index blends five weighted factors: concentration of refining/processing (35%), active trade-control & policy pressure (25%), import reliance (15%), substitutability (15%), and price stress (10%). The buyer-relative score then scales the relational factors (concentration / policy / import) by this company's production-footprint alignment against each material's controlling country — bloc-neutral factors (substitutability, price) are left intact.
Caveats. The footprint is the company's assembly / manufacturing geography applied uniformly across all materials — a first-order proxy, not per-material input tracing. Scores are an analytical judgement on public data with a transparent weighting, not a market forecast or investment advice. Production shares reflect 2024-2025 figures and the policy position as of 2026-06-04; the register is continuously maintained and should be re-pulled against each new policy action.
MACROLENS · CICONIALABS · GEOPOLITICAL SUPPLY-RISK REPORT (EU CRMA ART. 20–25) · report generated 2026-10-06
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