Saint Jean Carbon Starts Commercial Construction of Spherical Coated Graphite Mill

Saint Jean Carbon (TSXV:SJL), a carbon science company engaged in the development of natural graphite properties, has announced it is starting to construct the first mill and finishing line in North America.
As quoted in the press release:

The design for each line can be scaled up easily to produce 6,800 metric tonnes per line per year of spherically shaped, carbon-coated graphite. The primary use of the finished materials is for the Lithium ion batteries used in electric cars. The mill design is also modular and can be setup directly at the battery manufacturing plant, eliminating over-handling, contamination, moisture fluctuations and impurity intercalation.
The Company announced in the fall of 2015 the filing of a number of patents and research and development work with two universities. The results of the projects have created the necessary information and engineering to build the first production line. The first line will be built to produce an average of 5,000 metric tonnes per year with less than 5% waste. The equipment that is under patent application can make various sizes and purities to meet all of the stringent customer demands. Over the last two years, the company has worked on two detailed customer specifications; the success of meeting the specifications has lead to the decision to build the first full production line in North America.

Paul Ogilvie, CEO, said:

We are very pleased and excited to build the first of what we hope to be many production lines, up and running in the near future. We feel with the demand for the material, and the excellent work by both universities, industry partners and the consultants to the Company will help prove and support our overall strategy to be the first in full production and the first to supply material to this burgeoning industry. The extreme level of quality and significant lack of impurities has created excellent coin cells results from our material. We hope this breakthrough leads us to a supply agreement with our industry partners.

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