Synthetic graphite for lithium-ion batteries

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

Elkem's mission is to contribute to a sustainable future by providing advanced silicon and carbon solutions, creating value for our stakeholders globally. Elkem has a strategy to develop specialty products and high value solutions for its customers. This requires advanced product development, and research towards new product opportunities. A new market- and product opportunity for Elkem Carbon is battery grade graphite. Today's graphite materials are either made with energy intensive and costly processes (synthetic graphite) or with large environmental impacts during mining and processing (natural graphite). Elkem Carbon intends to introduce new sustainable processing routes to upgrade carbon feedstocks to battery grade graphite quality, and to deliver new carbon-based battery materials to the growing Li-ion battery market.