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October 2021
21 October 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday October 21.
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21 October 2021
A summary of China’s battery raw materials exports for September 2021, according to the latest Chinese customs data.
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21 October 2021
A summary of China’s battery raw materials imports for September 2021, according to the latest Chinese customs data.
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20 October 2021
Fastmarkets sees upside risk to Chinese graphite prices in the fourth quarter of 2021, largely reflecting rising electricity costs and reduced power supply, as well as insufficient inventories and inadequate availability of feedstock for spherical graphite processing.
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14 October 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday October 14.
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14 October 2021
The graphite electrodes market has strengthened since summer and is likely to remain firm in response to three bullish factors working simultaneously, including the European Commission's (EC) anti-dumping probe, according to graphite electrode consultants GES.
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13 October 2021
Westwater Resources, a United States-based battery grade graphite development company, announced on October 11 that it had won director approval to invest $202 million to construct phase I of its Coosa graphite project, with building to start before the end of 2021.
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12 October 2021
Numerous challenges are ahead for the graphite industry while it develops to meet the needs of the rapidly growing electric vehicle (EV) sector.
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08 October 2021
The congestion at major ports that has affected shipping operations for metals and minerals on the China-to-Europe route is set to worsen in the next three or four months, sources told Fastmarkets during last week’s International Colloquium on Refractories conference in Aachen, Germany.
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07 October 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday October 7.
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06 October 2021
The challenges with container shipping, including port congestion and supply chain disruptions, are likely to continue for some time, according to an executive at shipping company Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co.
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01 October 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 30.
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September 2021
24 September 2021
A summary of China’s refractory raw materials exports in August 2021.
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23 September 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 23.
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22 September 2021
A lack of container availability will restrict Syrah Resources’ flake graphite exports in the third quarter of this year to 17,000 tonnes from a planned total of 29,000 tonnes, the company said.
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17 September 2021
Producers of natural and synthetic graphite are vying to improve their material for consumption in the rapidly developing anode sector, market participants said.
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16 September 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 16.
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15 September 2021
Australia-based Mineral Commodities (MRC) has successfully achieved battery-grade purities of 99.98% and 99.99% C for spherical graphite derived from graphite concentrates sourced from the company’s Skaland and Munglinup projects, it has announced.
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13 September 2021
Posco Chemical acquired a 13% stake in Qingdao Zhongshuo New Energy Technology for 4.9 billion South Korean won ($4.2 million) late in the week ended Friday September 10, to secure the stable supply of spherical graphite that it needs to produce anode materials, according to sources.
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10 September 2021
Export prices for China’s large flake graphite have increased because of supply tightness and higher demand ahead of the winter suspension in Heilongjiang, the major production hub of flake graphite, sources told Fastmarkets.
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09 September 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 9.
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06 September 2021
Tirupati Graphite has commissioned the Vatomina flake graphite plant in Madagascar, with capacity for 9,000 tonnes per year at full operational rate, the company said on Monday September 6.
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03 September 2021
Anode industry participants in China were seeing a trend toward integrated synthetic graphite operations among major anode producers while there were energy restrictions in Inner Mongolia. Meanwhile, consumption of natural graphite was expected to be boosted because of its smaller carbon footprint, sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Friday September 3.
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03 September 2021
Fastmarkets has changed the title and specifications of its graphite amorphous price assessment.
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02 September 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 2.
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01 September 2021
South Star Battery Metals has successful produced lithium-ion battery-grade anode material and initially cycle-tested material from its Santa Cruz graphite project in Brazil, the company said on Monday August 30.
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01 September 2021
BTR New Material will set up a new anode material operation in China in a joint venture with Fuan Holding Group to meet growing demand from the downstream lithium-ion battery sector, the Chinese battery raw material producer said on Wednesday September 1.
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01 September 2021
Canada-based Nouveau Monde Graphite has been admitted as an active member of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), an initiative of the World Economic Forum striving to advance climate action via the sustainable development of the battery ecosystem, according to Nouveau Monde’s announcement on Tuesday August 31.