Resumen de IM 2012 Round-ups: Graphite
Germany's Graphit KropfmYhl AG (GK) revealed in May that it was to restart its KropfmYhl mine in southeast Germany and that all of the targeted 5,000 tpa graphite produced would be used internally.
Yifei Zhang, UK representative of Inner Mongolia Rising Group, acknowledged China's dominance in the global graphite supply scenario but denied that China was "powerful" within the industry since it presently has only low-profit products and an immature market with too much extra capacity.
"Without graphene, graphite will remain where it is now," he said. "To achieve a tonne-scale level for graphene production will require the participation of a large section of the graphite community, as the system needs a lot of resources."
