[Report] The Economics of Natural Graphite TOC

1. Executive summary
2. Geology and Resources

Geology
Properties and Uses
Resources

3. World production of natural graphite

Europe

North America

South and Central America

Africa

Asia

4. Review of producing and processing countries

Australia

5. Analysis of supply trends and forecasts

Increasing output or mine development: Brazil; Canada; China; Czech Republic; India; North Korea; Mexico; Norway; Russia; Sri Lanka; Ukraine
Declining output or mine closure: Australia; Austria; Germany; Mozambique; Romania; Sweden; Tanzania

6. Trade

Exports
Imports

7. Apparent consumption

8. End Uses

Refractories: Steel Making Processes; Magnesia-carbon refractories; Alumina-graphite refractories; Silicon carbide-graphite refractories; Refractory manufacturers (Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; China; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Italy; Japan; South Korea; Mexico; Russia; South Africa; Spain; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; UK; USA) Crucibles
Foundries
Steel making: Powder metallurgy; Ultra hard alloys
Carbon Products
Lubricants
Pencils
Batteries: Primary Batteries; Secondary Batteries; Fuel Cells; Battery manufacturers (Primary Batteries; Secondary batteries)
Brake linings
Treated graphite: Treated graphite manufacturers (China; Germany; Japan; United Kingdom; USA)
Graphite fibre
Paint
Other Uses for Graphite

9. Future demand for natural graphite

Refractories
Friction products
Lubricants
Foundries
Batteries
Treated graphite
Other uses

10. Prices
Future price trends

List of tables

1-3: Typical chemical composition of amorphous, crystalline flake &; crystalline vein natural graphite; Ash content &; analysis; Industrial applications, natural &; synthetic graphite
4-10
World: Reserves &; reserves base
Brazil: Graphite resources; Principal graphite resources in
Canada
Czech Republic
India: Recoverable reserves
Russia
Ukraine
11
World: Production of natural graphite, by country
12-15
Austria: Production & trade in graphite, 1987-2000
Brazil: Production & trade in graphite concentrate
Canada: Production & trade; Distribution of natural graphite flake sizes in Black Crystal Graphite deposit
16-18
China: Producers; Processing & trading companies
19-20
Czech Republic: Grafit a.s. Netolice
21
Germany: Production and trade
22-27
India: Production of graphite by state, 1997/98-1999/2000; Location of major graphite beneficiation plants; TP Minerals; Mines & processing plants; Domestic consumption; Calcined petroleum coke manufacturing units
28-31
North Korea
South Korea
Madagascar
Mexico
32: Groupo Grafimex; Producing subsidiaries
33-36
Mozambique
Norway
Romania
Russia
37: Uralgrafit Combine; Production of concentrates
38-40
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Tanzania
41
Turkey: Production of run-of-mine natural graphite
42-45
Ukraine: Zavalievsky Graphite Complex; Output; Grades; JSC Markograph; Production of natural graphite
46
UK: Processing & trading natural, synthetic graphite
47-48: Asbury Graphite Mills; Graphite processing plants in USA; Principal companies producing synthetic graphite
49-52
Zimbabwe: Production; Exports & Imports by country
53-54
World: Estimated apparent consumption
55-56
USA: Reported & apparent consumption by end use
57: Graphite specifications by end use
58-61
World: production of crude steel by country; Crude steel production by process; By process divided by region; Steel manufactured by continuous casting, 1991-2000
62
China: Companies manufacturing basic refractories
63: Lafarge Ré; fractaires Monolithiques; Location of plants
64
France: Manufacturers of basic refractory products
65
Germany: Manufacturers, graphite refractory products
66
India: Manufacturers of basic refractories, 2000
67-68
Japan: Production of refractories and graphite use, 1990-2000; Manufacturers of basic refractory products
69
Taiwan: Principal Refractory Producers 2002
70-71
USA: Shipments of refractories, Manufacturers
72: Composition of clay and tar-bonded SiC crucibles
73: Manufacturers of graphite crucibles, 1997
74
USA: Consumption of graphite in powder metallurgy
75
Western Europe: Shipments of metal powder for use in powder metallurgy, 1991-2000
76-87
Japan: Production of powder metallurgy items; Consumption in ultra hard alloys; Properties of typical carbon-graphite products; Fillers & applications for carbon-graphite products; Applications for graphite in the glass industry; Properties of titanium carbide coatings; Manufacture of primary batteries; Production of secondary batteries
World: battery manufacturers; Chinese battery producers; Japanese producers of lithium-ion batteries with production share 2000; Lithium-polymer batteries
88-96: Production-cars & Commercial vehicles
USA: Unit consumption in brake linings of new motor vehicles; World market for graphite foil; Gee Graphite Ltd; Reinforced graphite gasket products; GraphTec International; GRAFOIL^Ò; products
UK: Price ranges of crystalline natural graphite; Price ranges of amorphous natural graphite powder 80/85%C

The Economics of Natural Graphite

Contents

List of tables