The future US lead industry – is it fit for purpose?
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Report summary
Table of contents
- The once-dominant force in lead remains significant
- The growing US supply-demand deficit filled by imports
- Lead losses from the US supply chain
- Scrap battery exports deplete available smelter feedstock
- What if America didn’t export scrap batteries?
- Capacity expansion – confidence, costs and controls
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- US closes its last primary smelters; lost output over half a million tonnes as more secondaries shut
- Supply-demand gap needs more imported lead in future without smelter capacity expansion
- US recycling capacity can’t cope without exporting scrap batteries
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