After breaking ground in 2023, the company building a plant to produce battery components for electric vehicles in a municipality near Kingston, Ont., says it's delaying construction of the plant citing a slowdown in EV sales.The Umicore plant broke ground in 2023, but the company now says it's launched a strategic review to maximize future business value in battery materials.
Umicore cited a situation on June 12 when it announced that a contract with a Chinese manufacturer would not materialize. The company said its legacy contracts were tailing off faster than anticipated and there's a delay in the "ramp-up of contracts" in Europe. Officials pose with shovels in October 2023 to mark the construction of a new battery components plant.
It's planning to present the conclusion of that review on its capital markets day during the first quarter of 2025.Greig Mordue, an associate engineering professor at McMaster University, says both federal and provincial governments wanted to be early in the market.
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