Status
Operational: status carried from the legacy record
Product: Coated powder. Capacity: 5.0 kt/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
SGL Carbon European synthetic graphite production; BMW strategic partner (BMW is SGL shareholder); small capacity but European sovereignty signal; expanding to 20kt.
Customers and offtakers: BMW / BASF.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | SGL Carbon |
| Plant | Meitingen Synthetic Graphite |
| City | Meitingen |
| State or province | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Material | synthetic graphite |
| Product | Coated powder |
| Capacity (kt/yr) | 5.0 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Status carried from the legacy record; not re-verified; SGL has been restructuring its battery graphite business |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2022 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0. |
| Customers and offtakers | BMW / BASF |
| Carbon or silicon source | Petroleum coke (European) |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: sglcarbon.com
In context
Where it fits
Listed in Anode Active Materials. Anode plants are compared on route (natural or synthetic graphite, silicon, hard carbon), the step they own (mining, graphitization, spheroidizing, coating), capacity and cell qualification; purification, graphitization and coating are the bottlenecks, not graphite itself.
| Plant | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burghausen Polysilicon + Si Anode (Wacker Chemie) | Germany | operational |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Meitingen Synthetic Graphite (SGL Carbon)
- Sources
- ElectronsX anode dataset; company disclosures and filings
- Updated
- 2026-10