The scale of China’s graphite market is showing growth, the natural graphite market has declined, and the industry’s output value has expanded

Graphite is a non-metallic mineral resource with a variety of special properties such as high temperature resistance, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, lubrication, chemical stability, plasticity, and thermal shock resistance. As a refractory, lubricating and friction material, graphite has long been mainly used in traditional industrial fields such as metallurgy, foundry, and machinery, and has received less attention.

The graphite industry chain includes upstream resource mining and beneficiation, mid-stream material-level product processing, and downstream end-use applications. A multi-level graphite product system has been formed along the industry chain, which is very complicated. Graphite products are divided into three levels of raw material level, material level and special level along the graphite industry chain. This article expands on its classification system and divides material-level products into cutting-edge products based on the value of the product in the vertical direction. High-end products, mid-range products and low-end products.

In 2018, China’s graphite industry market size was 10.471 billion yuan, of which the natural graphite market size was 2.704 billion yuan and the artificial graphite scale was 7.767 billion yuan.

Affected by domestic natural graphite demand and product price fluctuations in recent years, China ’s natural graphite market has shown large fluctuations in recent years. In 2011, China ’s natural graphite market size was 36.28 billion yuan. In 2018, China ’s The size of the natural graphite market dropped to 2.704 billion yuan.
In 2014, China’s graphite industry output value was 6.734 billion yuan, and in 2018 China’s graphite industry output value increased to 12.415 billion yuan.

China’s graphite consumer customers mainly include: metallurgical casting, refractory materials, sealing materials, pencil industry, conductive materials, etc. The structure of customers in China’s graphite industry in 2018 is shown below:

At present, China’s natural graphite production areas are mainly concentrated in Jixi of Heilongjiang, Luobei of Heilongjiang, Xing of Inner Mongolia and Pingdu of Shandong. The artificial graphite production enterprises are mainly Jiangxi Zijing, Dongguan Kaijin, Shanghai Shanshan and Bate Rui.