Syrah Resources has started active anode material (AAM) production at its new facility in Vidalia, reports Mining Technology. It positions Syrah as the first commercial-scale, vertically integrated natural graphite AAM supplier outside of China.
The company has agreed to supply 8 kilotons per year of AAM from the Vidalia facility to Tesla. The commissioning and production activities have been a multi-month process, with Syrah’s operations team involved as each plant area was prepared for handover.
Since October 2023, the front-end milling area has been producing unpurified spherical graphite, stockpiling precursor material ahead of the purification and furnace areas’ commissioning. Read more.
