As I pointed out before, it will take most of a decade for Apple or any other person will manufacture smartphones in mass market quantities in the United States. Getting there requires large investments to solve big problems, including training, manufacturing, component supply and raw material supply.
And now, Apple is about to invest $ 500 million in the last one, working with the only US rare land supplier. UU., MP materials. The decision includes plans to buy rare earth magnets made in the company’s United States in what is announced as a victory for the Trump administration. Apple and MP materials will build a new recycling installation to extract electronics used materials, together with another factory to make Apple devices components.
Unlocking component supply chain
It is a big problem because at this time China produces about 60% of the world’s rare lands and processes around 90% of that material. The investment puts at least part of that capacity in the hands of the United States, despite the fact that a recent agreement with China saw the trade of these critical materials between the two nations resume. (The materials are available in other places, but they are so rare that they are paid in human misery).
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