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Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing

2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

Manufacturing in the United States is in crisis.  Nowhere is this crisis more acute than in the manufacture of advanced lithium batteries and their supply chain components.  The loss of manufacturing in the United States has hollowed-out communities, eliminated good jobs and reduced the tax base.  The loss of manufacturing is a root cause of the ballooning federal deficit. But the loss of manufacturing itself is not the crisis.  The crisis is the loss of investment in manufacturing infrastructure.  Manufacturing lithium batteries, like any other product, cannot be established and sustained in the United States unless investors can see a path [...]

Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

Tariffs Need to be “Sticky” to Work

2025-03-14T00:13:33-04:00

Regardless of the wisdom of the Trump tariffs, the Administration’s actions seem motivated by a genuine desire to return manufacturing to the United States.  This is a laudable goal and one that NAATBatt fully supports. But in trying to return manufacturing to the United States through tariffs, the Administration may be confusing a symptom with the disease.  The disease is not a lack of manufacturing in the United States.  The disease is that the United States is underinvesting in manufacturing infrastructure.  That underinvestment has led to the symptom of a declining manufacturing sector in general and to the lack of advanced [...]

Tariffs Need to be “Sticky” to Work2025-03-14T00:13:33-04:00

Explaining U.S. Battery Strategy in Korea

2025-03-08T04:23:35-05:00

The NAATBatt Onshoring Battery Technology Committee recently sponsored a delegation of NAATBatt members at InterBattery 2025.  The delegation included representatives of 39 NAATBatt member firms, which either attended the conference in person or virtually. Participating members had the opportunity to attend InterBattery 2025, the second largest battery conference in Asia (after CIBF in Shenzhen, China) and meet a wide with a range of Asian battery and battery component manufacturers.  The NAATBatt InterBattery program allowed members to interact directly with decision-makers at the large Korean battery companies.  Those decision-makers tend to be located in Korea, not in North America.  The Onshoring Battery [...]

Explaining U.S. Battery Strategy in Korea2025-03-08T04:23:35-05:00

Take-Aways from NAATBatt 2025

2025-02-21T22:11:31-05:00

NAATBatt 2025, the 17th annual meeting and conference of NAATBatt International, ended on Thursday, February 20, in Orlando, Florida.  Initial reviews by attendees have been overwhelmingly positive.  NAATBatt continues its mission of fostering a culture of inclusion and congeniality in the North American battery industry.  The objective of that culture is to give NAATBatt members more and better opportunities to grow their respective businesses and build new commercial relationships in North America.  NAATBatt 2025 attendees appear to agree that NAATBatt is achieving that objective. The positive reactions to the meeting contrasted with uncertainty about the state of the industry as a [...]

Take-Aways from NAATBatt 20252025-02-21T22:11:31-05:00
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