Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on the methodology for its audited non-ferrous price assessments and indices, as part of its announced annual methodology review process.

Investment for new projects outside of China and acceptance that synthetic graphite will continue to play a role in supplying the anode battery sector are key for the development of the nascent European graphite market, according to panelists at Fastmarkets’ European Battery Raw Materials conference in Amsterdam

Australia-listed graphite miner Syrah Resources has received approval for a $150-million conditional loan commitment for its wholly owned subsidiary Twigg Exploration & Mining Ltd in Balama, Mozambique, the company announced on Monday September 11

Toronto-based graphite producer NextSource Materials has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korean battery precursor materials’ producer Posco International, it announced on Tuesday September 5

Fastmarkets experts share graphite forecasts, data and interactive price charts to demonstrate the ever-changing battery materials landscape and make some key predictions for the future of the graphite market

Australia-based graphite miner Syrah Resources has signed two binding offtake agreements with Graphex Technologies, a multinational purified spherical graphite producer, and Westwater Resources, a US-based junior graphite anode producer, the miner said on Thursday August 3

Read more about the significant stride towards fostering transparency in the battery anode market with the launch of prices for synthetic anode feedstock of needle coke and green petroleum coke.

Fastmarkets has launched two new synthetic graphite feedstock prices for the spot Chinese market on Wednesday July 26.

NextSource has begun flake graphite production at its Molo mine in Madagascar ahead of a potential bottleneck in natural and synthetic graphite anode material produced outside of China, executive vice president Brent Nykoliation told Fastmarkets

The anode market has increasingly shifted focus to synthetic graphite from natural material in response to increased capacity and changing feedstock in China, which dominates the global market. And in response Fastmarkets will start to price assess petroleum needle coke and green petroleum coke on an ex-works China basis