NATURAL GRAPHITE ANODES MARKET

INTRODUCTION

The primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been identified as the manufacture of battery materials. Due to its good process ability and low production energy consumption, NG anode will continue to gain market share, as CO2 emission reductions are necessary to attain carbon neutrality.

There are two types of NG that are widely available in China: flake graphite (FG) and microcrystalline graphite (MG). For the past 30 years, many researchers have worked to improve the electrochemical performance of modified NG and its derivatives, supporting their widespread use in LIBs.

NATURAL GRAPHITE ANODES MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

Graphite is employed in a variety of industrial applications because of its exceptional qualities, including electrical and thermal conductivity and chemical resistance.

Graphite is utilised in a range of industries, including aerospace, in addition to being used as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.

It is also used as an electrode material for fuel cells, for carbon brushes in electric motors, and as a carbon fibre-reinforced composite material.

In general, there is a lack of openness in the industrial scale primary data pertaining to the production of battery materials.

Particularly, life cycle inventory statistics pertaining to the extraction, refinement, and coating of graphite as a component of the anode for lithium-ion batteries are insufficient, out of date, and barely indicative of current battery uses.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE IN NATURAL GRAPHITE ANODES MARKET

Nowadays, lithium-ion batteries are essential to our daily lives because of their good recharge ability, acceptable power density, and exceptional energy density.

Graphite, which has acted as a lithium-ion host structure for the negative electrode during the previous roughly 30 years, is a crucial element that paved the path for this success story.

In addition, even though there has been a lot of research done to discover viable substitutes with improved power and/or energy density while keeping outstanding cycling stability, graphite is still utilised in the vast majority of commercial lithium-ion batteries that are now on the market.

Mitsubishi Chemical Group is a leading mobiliser of the equipment in the market. The latest integration has been the MPG, which performs admirably throughout quick charging and draining cycles. ICG has a sizable capacity and longer battery life.

The anode materials made of natural graphite used in MPG exhibit good output performance. Through further development of the low-resistance materials, a very low degree of reaction resistance was attained.

Because the surface layer's thermal breakdown temperature is higher because to the better MPG, there is greater safety.

BTR China is part of the component manufacture trending companies in the current industry. The carbon-silicon (C/Si) composite anode material combines significantly optimised high-performance graphite anode materials with specially designed silicon-based materials.

We are able to produce synthetic graphite for anode materials at the highest quality level because to our dependable, large, and diversified production. We gain from our highly developed expertise and skills across the whole value chain as a large-scale producer.

Due to the large production capacity and unique process architecture, delivery volumes may be scaled very quickly.

KEY PLAYER IN NATURAL GRAPHITE ANODES MARKET

• Aekyung Petrochemical
• Amsted Graphite Materials
• Beiterui New Materials Group Co
• Ecograf
• Epsilon Carbon Private Limited
• Guangdong Kaijin New Energy Technology Corp
• Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd.
• International Graphite
• Jfe Chemical Corporation
• Jiangxi Zhengtuo New Energy Technology
• Jiangxi Zichen Technology
• Kuraray Co
• Kureha Corporation
• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
• Nei Corporation
• Nippon Carbon
• Posco Chemical
• BTR China
• Targay Inc.