Industrial Minerals


Asbury Carbons launches new range of nanographite powders

22 June 2012

by Laura Syrett

The latest carbon nano-material to come to market seeks commercial up-take

Keywords: nanographite, Asbury, graphite, graphene, carbon

As the global carbon industry continues its hunt to discover and develop revolutionary, nano-sized, commercially applicable carbon materials, the latest product to hit the market is bang on trend.

Asbury Graphite Mills Inc., the world’s largest processor of granular and powder carbon and graphite, recently announced the launch of its new nanographite line of materials.

The culmination of several years of laboratory development, nanographite is graphite that has been mechanically processed to below 100mn in size. It comes in the form of free-flowing, dispersed powders composed of nanographite platelets.

The powders are manufactured from a variety of graphitic ‘parent’ materials using Asbury’s...