Commodity Market Report
Graphite market 2021 outlook to 2050
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Report summary
Graphite is a key energy transition material, critical to the manufacture of lithium-ion battery anodes. Robust growth for batteries in electric vehicles and energy storage systems has already begun to underpin significant changes to the landscape of the graphite industry – changes that will continue through to 2050 based on the current range of battery technologies. Graphite was previously a slow moving and mature industry, feeding mainly steel-based applications. Battery growth is now driving the production of higher performance and higher value refined products which come with their own set of pressures on raw material supply and which are increasingly in focus for environmental sustainability.
Table of contents
- Market outlook and prices
- Prices
- Demand
- Supply
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Market balance
- Flake graphite
- Amorphous graphite
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Base case price forecast
- 2020-2021
- Short-term prices (2021-2024)
- Medium-term prices (2024-2030)
- Long-term prices (2030-2050)
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Key risks to the base case
- Short term – upside
- Short term – downside
- Long term – upside
- Long term – downside
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Demand in batteries
- Li-ion batteries in automotive
- Recent trends in automotive and EVs
- Forecast for EVs
- Demand in steel-based and other applications
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Mine supply of natural graphite
- China
- Africa
- Mozambique
- Madagascar
- Tanzania
- Other Africa
- Brazil
- North America
- 4 more item(s)...
- Refined supply of natural graphite
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Manufacture of synthetic graphite
- China
- Japan
- US
- Europe
- India
- Other
Tables and charts
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- Market balance and prices for natural graphite
- Nominal prices flake vs spherical
- Real price flake vs spherical
- Graphite demand and the changing end-use landscape
- Synthetic graphite supply with % China
- Natural graphite supply with % China and Africa
- Natural graphite market balance
- Battery market growth and associated graphite demand
- Top Li-ion anode manufacturers, 2021
- Graphite’s role as an active Li-ion anode material
- Role of the automotive sector in forecast lithium-ion battery growth
- Steel market trends and non-battery graphite growth
- 19 more item(s)...
What's included
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