Component
Electrical steel
Silicon steel laminations for motors and transformer cores. A tight domestic bottleneck.
Criticality
High
Unit cost
$1.6K
Quality
70 / 100
US completeness
22.1
Made in US
400,000 tonnes
Current demand
1,800,000 tonnes
US exports
32,000 tonnes
Opportunity score
77.3
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$1.4B
Expected extra output: 220,000 tonnes per year
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