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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.
Umicore produces across 9 countries — 30% of mapped capacity sits in 🇧🇪 Belgium (HQ 🇧🇪 Belgium).
material exposures: cobalt · nickel · lithium · manganese · copper · silver · germanium · platinum-palladium · rhodium-iridium · antimony · indium · tellurium · tin · bismuth
11 register actions name Umicore, issued from 4 countries (top: 🇪🇺 European Union ×7) — 1 of those also sit in its production footprint (regulator ∩ producer).
Latest: 🇪🇺 EU and US sign MoU on a strategic partnership on critical minerals · 2026-04-24 · 165d ago
Its 14 scored input materials trace to 3 supplier countries — 2 refine >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China (manganese 90%, bismuth 88%, tellurium 80%, +8) — 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 13 register actions restricting the inputs it already dominates — antimony (7), cobalt (4), bismuth (1), manganese (1), +1 more — max severity 5/5. This share is a demonstrated lever, not just a concentration.Latest: China MOFCOM Announcement No. 27 [2026] — 20 more Japanese entities incl. National Institute for Defense Studies added to Control List · 2026-06-29 · 99d ago
Substitutes & lead-time to switch: cobalt → · nickel → · lithium → · copper → · silver → · germanium → · platinum-palladium → · rhodium-iridium → · indium → · tellurium → · tin →
Triple-overlap node: 🇨🇳 China sits in all three layers at once — 12% of mapped capacity · 2 actions naming Umicore (max sev 4/5) · dominant world supplier of 11 scored inputs (manganese 90%). One disruption there hits output, regulation and inputs together — the correlated tail a single-layer view misses. its CN actions →
Named counterparties: this dossier names 7 firms with a source; 2 are in this corpus with a mapped footprint, and 2 of those produce in a country already on this map (🇨🇩 DR Congo · 🇿🇦 South Africa · 🇫🇮 Finland) — the named end of an exposure the country layers show anonymously.Glencore plc (supplier) 🇨🇩 CD ◆ · Terrafame Ltd. (supplier) 🇫🇮 FI ◆ ◆ = produces in a country already on this map.2 other dossiers name Umicore from the other side (customer). 5 named firms could not be placed on the map — named in a primary source but not yet onboarded as a dossier, or onboarded without a production footprint. Named, not missing.
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.