Saudi Arabia is planning a second lithium processing facility, as it steps up efforts to work with western partners to develop its battery supply chain.
The facility, which will use feedstock mined in Austria to produce refined lithium hydroxide for BMW, is a sign of how supply chains to process the metal are slowly developing outside China.
China accounts for nearly 60 per cent of global processing for lithium, a critical ingredient in electric car batteries — and the EU and US are bolstering incentives to create more capacity.
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