GRAPHITE BREAKTHROUGH

American materials company Urbix has come up with a graphite-processing method that it claims uses 10% of the energy and 6% of the acid in 7% of the time and with double the yield of lithium-ion-anode-grade graphite compared with existing processes. It aims to supply 30% of all EV battery material in Europe, reducing dependence on China, which supplies almost all of the graphite for EV batteries used today.