EIT RawMaterials has announced an investment of €600 000 in Nordic Bio-Graphite, a Swedish startup developing high-purity graphite using renewable carbon sources.
The funding enables the company to validate market demand and advance detailed plans for its first pilot plant — a critical step toward commercial production.
Conventional synthetic graphite is produced by heating carbon-based raw materials to 3,000°C, resulting in high energy consumption and significant CO2 emissions. Nordic Bio-Graphite replaces these raw materials with forestry residues, which are converted into biochar and then into synthetic graphite through a catalyst-assisted heat treatment, with significantly lower energy requirements.
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