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Pick a company to see where it actually produces — every country in its footprint, shaded by capacity share — overlaid with the countries whose register actions name it (severity ring + action count), plus violet arcs to the chokepoint countries its material inputs depend on. The map is a lens; the dossier and register are the source of record.
Ascend Elements, Inc. produces across 1 country — 100% of mapped capacity sits in 🇺🇸 United States (HQ 🇺🇸 United States).
material exposures: lithium · nickel · cobalt · manganese
1 register action name Ascend Elements, Inc., issued from 1 country (top: 🇺🇸 United States ×1) — 1 of those also sit in its production footprint (regulator ∩ producer).
Latest: 🇺🇸 BIS DPAS Directive Allocation Order — 100% domestic-sale mandate for black mass and tungsten waste/scrap · 2026-08-06 · 61d ago
Recency: 0 new in 30d · 1 in 90d · avg sev 4.0
Its 4 scored input materials trace to 1 supplier country — 1 refines >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China (manganese 90%, cobalt 78%, lithium 65%, +1) — nearest ex-🇨🇳 manganese producer: 🇿🇦 South Africa ~5% — ~6-12mo to ramp (share-of-stage heuristic, not a sourced qualification time).Armed chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China has itself issued 5 register actions restricting the inputs it already dominates — cobalt (4), manganese (1) — max severity 5/5. This share is a demonstrated lever, not just a concentration.Latest: China Customs Tariff Commission — Zero-Tariff Treatment for All 53 African Diplomatic Partners (May 2026–April 2028) · 2026-04-28 · 161d ago
Substitutes & lead-time to switch: lithium → · nickel → · cobalt →
Overlap node: 🇺🇸 United States sits in two of the three layers — 100% of mapped capacity · 1 action naming Ascend Elements, Inc. (max sev 4/5). It regulates the company inside its own borders — exposure is operational, not just trade-facing. its US actions →
Reading the map: green shading = the company's production countries by capacity share, with dots at facility cities (dashed = approximate, country-level). Violet arcs = INPUT DEPENDENCIES — they run from the country that dominates world production/refining of a material the company consumes to the company's base; the % is that country's share of world supply at the named stage, NOT an import/export volume. Severity rings = countries whose register actions name the company.