China’s dominance of the world’s graphite industry is starting to spill over into value added products, new data from IM shows.
Research from The Natural Graphite Report 2012 documents the extent of the country’s dominance of spherical graphite production.
In 2011, China produced over 90% of the world’s uncoated spherical graphite produced from high quality flakes. Producers of lithium-ion batteries rely on the superior spherical graphite...