GEM partner with China Minmetals Group to recycle graphite

Chinese battery recycling and material producer GEM has signed a "Cooperation Framework Agreement" with China Minmetals Group (Heilongjiang) Graphite Industry Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Eigen Equation Graphene Technology with the aim to develop anode materials based on recycled graphite.

The agreement comprises purification technologies, enhancement of high-performance anode materials, development of new application, and to jointly work on market adoption.

GEM is already involved in a project through its subsidiary Wuhan Power Battery Regeneration Technology Co with Fuan Qingmei Energy Materials and Shenzhen Eigen Equation Graphene Technology Co which aims to industrialize graphene-enhanced lithium iron phosphate (manganese) materials, improving battery conductivity, energy density, and cycle life through graphene technology. This graphene will be produced from recycled graphite.

In China graphite is recycled into refractories and other materials in the steel industry through companies like PukeBay. Globally there have been several initiatives to recycle graphite involving recycling companies such as Ecograf/Sungeel, Aurubis/Talga, Ascend Elements/Orbia