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0 critical materials scored
Verified: no scored critical-mineral exposure. This company's dossier carries no `material_exposures` entries. That can mean its production is genuinely outside the critical-minerals set this platform scores (e.g. a precious-metals-only miner) — or simply that no exposure entries have been populated for it yet; no field on this dossier distinguishes the two, so treat "0" here as unpopulated or inapplicable, not as a reviewed-and-cleared verdict. We found no critical-mineral exposure in the sources we checked for this company; absence from our corpus is not evidence that the company has none.
Fill GmbH (Gurten, Upper Austria, founded 1966, ~1,000 employees) is a family-owned special machine engineering company that designs and builds custom manufacturing systems for four material domains: aluminium gravity die casting and tilt-pour casting lines, CFRP/GFRP composites preforming and RTM equipment, wood CNC machining, and profile technology. Their machines produce structural parts for automotive OEMs (BMW i-series CFRP body parts, Audi structural castings), aerospace primes (Airbus A320/A321 CFRP stringers and landing flap shells, FACC aerostructures), wind-energy rotor-blade manufacturers, and sports equipment (ski and snowboard production lines). All manufacturing is at the Gurten campus; Fill USA (Plymouth, MI, est. 2021) is sales/service only.
use servo-driven CNC axes and robotic arms whose motors depend on neodymium-iron-boron magnets. Dysprosium is required to maintain magnet performance at the elevated temperatures of continuous-duty servo cycles. China controls ~85–90 % of global REE mining and ~90 % of NdFeB magnet production; no practical substitute at the required power density. Listed as strategic on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.
lines consume tungsten carbide–cobalt (WC-Co) cutting inserts as a direct, recurring consumable for milling, drilling, and turning. China produces ~80 % of global tungsten; no commercially viable substitute for WC-Co in high-precision hard-alloy machining. EU CRM list: strategic material.
WC-Co cemented carbide tooling and is present in the UPS/backup-power cells embedded in Fill's CNC control units (Siemens, Fanuc, Beckhoff). The DRC produces ~70 % of mined cobalt; China refines >70 %. Limited substitution (WC-Ni in select grades) with performance penalty.
machine transformers across Fill's product lines use copper windings. Copper supply is geographically more diversified than the above materials (lower headline risk), but flagged given the volume of electromechanical content in Fill's machines.