Facility

POSCO-Pilbara Gwangyang Lithium Hydroxide Plant

Primary-source record for POSCO-Pilbara Gwangyang Lithium Hydroxide Plant. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with spodumene-concentrate as input and battery-grade-lithium-hydroxide-monohydrate as output. Current state was rechecked for the Phase 2 launch-date sweep on 2026-08-18.

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Location: Gwangyang, South Jeolla, South Korea

Lithium chemicals

POSCO-Pilbara Gwangyang Lithium Hydroxide Plant qualifying line

Commissioned

Spodumene conversion and crystallization to lithium hydroxide monohydrate

Material flow

Spodumene Concentrate → Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate

Capacity

43,000 metric-tonne-per-year · Product mass · Nameplate · as of Nov 29, 2024

Qualification

Commercial production · The cited primary source identifies the line output as battery grade or battery quality. · Nov 29, 2024

Sources

Pilbara Minerals Limited · published Nov 29, 2024 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive
Government of the Republic of Korea · published Nov 29, 2023 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19; no snapshot was verified.