OCSiAl, already the world’s largest graphene nanotube manufacturer, announced the launch of its second synthesis facility for graphene nanotubes with a production capacity of 50 tons per year.
“OCSiAl’s annual production capacity has now reached 75 tonnes of graphene nanotubes. The growing market demand is closely related to the ongoing revolution in the electric vehicle field. If we take into account the official plans of the largest global car manufacturers, just the Li-ion batteries for them would require 250 tonnes of graphene nanotubes in 2025,” said Yury Koropachinskiy, the president of OCSiAl.
The Graphetron 50 facility is currently the world’s largest plant for graphene nanotube production and increases OCSiAl’s production capacity to 75 tons per year. OCSiAl now accounts for more than 90 per cent of global graphene nanotube production capacity.
Graphene nanotubes – or single wall carbon nanotubes – are rolled-up graphene sheets that have unique properties: high electrical and thermal conductivity, remarkable strength and high length-to-diameter ratio. When graphene nanotubes are introduced into a material matrix, they create a reinforcing three-dimensional network that also gives the material conductive properties.
OCSiAl has led the graphene nanotube market, owning the world’s only scalable technology for the industrial synthesis of these nanotubes. The first industrial-scale batch of graphene nanotubes – 1.2 tonnes – was synthesized by OCSiAl in 2015, which at the time exceeded the entire volume of this material ever produced since its discovery in 1991.
The company’s share of the global production capacity of graphene nanotubes now exceeds 90 per cent. OCSiAl has pointed out that this is just the beginning of its production expansion to address the rapidly growing market demand for graphene nanotubes.
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