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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.
Merck KGaA produces across 2 countries — 90% of mapped capacity sits in 🇩🇪 Germany (HQ 🇩🇪 Germany).
material exposures: rhodium-iridium · tantalum · tungsten · cobalt · silicon
No register action names Merck KGaA yet — footprint only.
Its 5 scored input materials trace to 2 supplier countries — 2 refine >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China (tungsten 90%, silicon 80%, cobalt 78%, +1) — nearest ex-🇨🇳 tungsten producer: 🇦🇹 Austria ~4% — ~6-12mo to ramp (share-of-stage heuristic, not a sourced qualification time).Armed chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China has itself issued 10 register actions restricting the inputs it already dominates — cobalt (4), tungsten (4), silicon (2) — max severity 5/5. This share is a demonstrated lever, not just a concentration.Latest: China MOFCOM Preliminary Anti-Dumping Ruling on Japanese Dichlorosilane (DCS) Imports · 2026-09-07 · 29d ago
Substitutes & lead-time to switch: rhodium-iridium → · tungsten → · cobalt → · silicon →
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.