(Reuters) – Although synthetic graphite has been around for more than 100 years, few companies are supplying the material to makers of electric vehicle batteries and battery electrodes.
Here’s a short list of public and private companies engaged in the development and production of synthetic graphite, regarded as higher purity and offering better performance, for EV batteries:
Anovion (USA)
BTR New Energy Materials (China)
Kuntian New Energy Technology (China)
Novonix Group (Australia)
Resonac Holdings (Japan)
formerly Showa Denko
Shanshan Technology (China)
Vianode (Norway)
Sources: Felixwire, PitchBook
(Reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Timothy Gardner)
