Status
Operational: status carried from the legacy record
Product: Coated powder. Capacity: 15.0 kt/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
Japanese synthetic graphite for domestic cell makers; Panasonic and Toyota supply; reducing Chinese dependency for Japanese supply chain; Tokai industrial cluster.
Customers and offtakers: Panasonic / Toyota.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Tokai Carbon |
| Plant | Tokai Synthetic Graphite |
| City | Tokai |
| State or province | Aichi |
| Country | Japan |
| Material | synthetic graphite |
| Product | Coated powder |
| Capacity (kt/yr) | 15.0 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Status carried from the legacy record; not re-verified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2018 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0. |
| Customers and offtakers | Panasonic / Toyota |
| Carbon or silicon source | Petroleum coke (Japanese refineries) |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: tokaicarbon.co.jp/en
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.
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|---|---|---|
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| Iwaki Hard Carbon Plant (Kureha Corporation) | Japan | operational |
| Anode Material Lines (Mitsubishi Chemical) | Japan | operational |
| Osaka SiOx Anode Plant (Osaka Titanium Technologies) | Japan | operational |
| Graphite Anode Plants (Resonac) | Japan | operational |
| Niigata Si Anode Plant (Shin-Etsu Chemical) | Japan | operational |
| Kashiwazaki SCiB Plant (Toshiba) | Japan | operational |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Tokai Synthetic Graphite (Tokai Carbon)
- Sources
- ElectronsX anode dataset; company disclosures and filings
- Updated
- 2026-10