グラファイト – 市場シェア分析、業界動向と統計、成長予測 2025-2030年

Graphite - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2025 - 2030)

グラファイト - 市場シェア分析、業界動向と統計、成長予測 2025-2030年
The Graphite Market Report Segments the Industry by Type (Natural Graphite and Synthetic Graphite), Application (Electrodes, Refractories, Casting, and Foundries, Batteries, Lubricants, and Other Applications), End-User Industry (Metallurgy, Electronic, Automotive, and Other End-User Industries), and Geography (Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, South America, and Middle-East and Africa).

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出版社 Mordor Intelligence
出版年月2025年7月
ページ数160
価格タイプシングルユーザライセンス
価格USD 4,750
種別英文調査報告書

グラファイト市場レポートでは、業界をタイプ別(天然グラファイトと合成グラファイト)、用途別(電極、耐火物、鋳造、鋳造、電池、潤滑剤、その他の用途)、エンドユーザー産業別(冶金、電子、自動車、その他のエンドユーザー産業)、および地域別(アジア太平洋、北米、ヨーロッパ、南米、中東およびアフリカ)に分類しています。

グラファイト市場規模は2025年に57億3,000万米ドルと推定され、予測期間(2025~2030年)中に9.89%の年平均成長率(CAGR)で成長し、2030年には91億9,000万米ドルに達すると予測されています。堅調なバッテリー需要、鉄鋼業界の構造変化、そして重要材料サプライチェーンの現地化に向けた取り組みの強化が、この成長軌道を支えています。グラファイト業界は、バルクコモディティセクターから、モビリティ、電力、重工業全体の脱炭素化を支える戦略的材料分野への決定的な転換期を迎えています。アジア太平洋地域への天然資源の集中と、北米および欧州における政策的インセンティブは、採掘、加工、リサイクル資産への新たな投資を促進しています。同時に、資本コストの上昇と環境監視の厳格化は、責任ある調達を確保しながらリスクを分散する合弁事業を促進しています。新たに浮かび上がる推論は、契約構造によりオフテイク契約が長期化しており、オフテイク契約は現在では10年以上に及ぶのが普通であり、買い手が価格が上がっても原料の安全性を確保する意思があることを示している、というものだ。

セグメント分析

  • 合成グラファイトが2024年には市場シェア58.09%を占める現状において、天然グラファイトは急速に市場シェアを拡大​​しています。苛性焼成とマイクロ波加熱を組み合わせた新たな精製プロセスにより、現在では99.95%の純度が達成されており、従来の性能差は縮まっています。OEMの購買ダッシュボードに現在組み込まれているライフサイクル評価データによって、セルレベルのエネルギー密度がわずかに低い場合でも、調達方針が天然グラファイトに有利に傾いていることが明らかです。
  • 供給安全保障への懸念から、バイオマス由来の合成グラファイトへの関心が高まっています。これは、採掘された天然グラファイトや石油由来のニードルコークスへの依存を軽減できる可能性があります。パイロット研究では、リグニンベースの前駆体から、リチウムのインターカレーションに適した層間間隔を持つ乱層炭素が得られることが確認されています。新たな推論は、天然フレークとバイオグラファイトを組み合わせたデュアルソーシング戦略が、地政学的混乱や炭素価格の高騰に対する魅力的なヘッジとして浮上しているというものです。
  • グラファイト市場レポートでは、業界をタイプ別(天然グラファイトと合成グラファイト)、用途別(電極、耐火物、鋳造、鋳造、電池、潤滑剤、その他の用途)、エンドユーザー産業別(冶金、電子、自動車、その他のエンドユーザー産業)、および地域別(アジア太平洋、北米、ヨーロッパ、南米、中東およびアフリカ)に分類しています。

Graphite Market Analysis

The Graphite Market size is estimated at USD 5.73 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach USD 9.19 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 9.89% during the forecast period (2025-2030). Robust battery demand, structural shifts in steelmaking, and intensifying efforts to localize critical-material supply chains collectively underpin this trajectory. The graphite industry is experiencing a decisive shift from a bulk commodity sector to a strategic materials arena supporting decarbonization across mobility, power, and heavy industry. Natural-resource concentration in Asia-Pacific and policy incentives in North America and Europe are catalyzing new investment in mining, processing, and recycling assets. Simultaneously, the rising cost of capital and stricter environmental scrutiny are encouraging joint ventures that spread risk while ensuring responsible sourcing. A fresh inference that emerges is that contract structures are lengthening off-take agreements now regularly span 10-plus years, signaling buyers’ willingness to lock in feedstock security even at higher prices.

グラファイト - 市場シェア分析、業界動向と統計、成長予測 2025-2030年
Graphite – Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2025 – 2030)

Global Graphite Market Trends and Insights

Augmenting Demand from the Lithium-ion Battery Industry

Battery manufacturers now account for the single largest slice of the graphite market share, and the segment’s 17%-plus CAGR indicates sustained acceleration through the decade. Intensifying price competition among electric-vehicle (EV) brands magnifies the cost sensitivity of anodes, tilting preference toward natural graphite that offers a multithousand-dollar per-tonne advantage over synthetic alternatives. This cost gradient is widening as energy prices rise, because synthetic production requires temperatures of 3,000 °C, whereas natural purification usually runs below 1,800 °C. One inference observable from recent tender data is that automakers are accepting slightly lower first-cycle efficiency in exchange for natural graphite’s better ESG profile, illustrating how carbon-footprint metrics have become commercially material.

Increase in Steel Production in Asia and the Middle East

The shift toward electric-arc furnaces (EAF) for emissions abatement is materially lifting demand for ultra-high-power graphite electrodes. Machinery and automotive applications now drive a larger share of steel consumption, implicitly elevating electrode durability and conductivity requirements. A fresh inference is that electrode suppliers can certify lower sulfur and nitrogen contents, secure premium price realizations because EAF operators see a direct link between electrode purity, tap-to-tap time, and overall furnace energy efficiency.

Stringent Environmental Regulations

Carbon-pricing regimes and Scope-3 disclosure frameworks are prompting producers to adopt renewable power and to pilot low-temperature catalytic graphitization developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, which halves energy use and compresses production cycles from weeks to hours.

Other drivers and restraints analyzed in the detailed report include:

  • Increase in Natural Graphite Recycling Initiatives
  • Growing Demand from the Electronics Industry
  • Limited Availability of High-Quality Natural Graphite

For complete list of drivers and restraints, kindly check the Table Of Contents.

Segment Analysis

Natural graphite is rapidly gaining market share despite synthetic graphite’s current dominance at 58.09% of the market in 2024. Fresh purification processes such as caustic baking combined with microwave heating now deliver 99.95% purity, closing the historical performance gap. A clear inference is that life-cycle-assessment data, which now feature in OEM purchasing dashboards, are tipping procurement policies in favor of natural graphite even when immediate cell-level energy density is marginally lower.

Supply-security concerns amplify interest in biomass-derived synthetic graphite, which could reduce dependence on mined natural graphite and petroleum needle-coke routes. Pilot studies confirm that lignin-based precursors yield turbostratic carbon with an interlayer spacing conducive to lithium intercalation. The fresh inference is that dual-sourcing strategies, natural flake plus bio-graphite, are surfacing as an attractive hedge against geopolitical disruption and carbon-price escalation.

The Graphite Market Report Segments the Industry by Type (Natural Graphite and Synthetic Graphite), Application (Electrodes, Refractories, Casting, and Foundries, Batteries, Lubricants, and Other Applications), End-User Industry (Metallurgy, Electronic, Automotive, and Other End-User Industries), and Geography (Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, South America, and Middle-East and Africa).

Geography Analysis

Asia-Pacific currently captures 55.42% graphite market share and registers the fastest regional CAGR at above 11%. China’s dominance stems from integrated clusters that combine flake-graphite mines, purification lines, and spheronization plants into a single logistics corridor. A fresh inference is that ASEAN nations such as Indonesia and Malaysia are courting mid-stream processors, hoping to replicate China’s cluster model and thus create alternative nodes in the value chain.

North America is transitioning from an import-dependent consumer base to an emerging producer, helped by the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits that reimburse 10% of qualified anode-component costs. Europe’s graphite industry is shaped by regulatory leadership rather than resource endowment. Mandatory minimum recycled-content thresholds in batteries are pushing gigafactories to sign multi-year supply contracts with recyclers.

List of Companies Covered in this Report:

  • Asbury Carbons
  • BTR New Material Group Co., Ltd.
  • GrafTech International
  • Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH
  • Imerys
  • Mason Resources Inc.
  • Mersen
  • Nippon Kokuen Group
  • Northern Graphite
  • POCO
  • Resonac Holdings Corporation
  • SGL Carbon
  • Shanghai Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Syrah Resources Limited
  • Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd.
  • Triton Minerals Limited

Additional Benefits:

  • The market estimate (ME) sheet in Excel format
  • 3 months of analyst support

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Study Assumptions and Market Definition

1.2 Scope of the Study

2 Research Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Market Landscape

4.1 Market Overview

4.2 Market Drivers

4.2.1 Augmenting Demand from the Lithium-ion Battery Industry

4.2.2 Increase in Steel Production in Asia and the Middle East

4.2.3 Increase in Natural Graphite Recycling Initiatives

4.2.4 Growing Demand for Conductive Graphite from Electronics Industry

4.2.5 Increasing Demand from Aerospace and Defense Industry

4.3 Market Restraints

4.3.1 Stringent Environmental Regulations

4.3.2 Limited Availability of High-Quality Natural Graphite

4.3.3 Fluctuation in Raw Material Prices

4.4 Value  Chain Analysis

4.5 Regulatory and Environmental Outlook

4.6 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis

4.6.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers

4.6.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers

4.6.3 Threat of New Entrants

4.6.4 Threat of Substitute Products and Services

4.6.5 Degree of Competition

5 Market Size and Growth Forecasts (Value and Volume)

5.1 By Type

5.1.1 Natural Graphite

5.1.2 Synthetic Graphite

5.2 By Application

5.2.1 Electrodes

5.2.2 Refractories, Casting and Foundries

5.2.3 Batteries

5.2.4 Lubricants

5.2.5 Other Applications (Thermal Management Materials, Friction Products and Brake Linings,etc.)

5.3 By End-user Industry

5.3.1 Metallurgy

5.3.2 Electronic

5.3.3 Automotive

5.3.4 Other Industries (Energy, Aerospace and Defence, etc.)

5.4 By Geography

5.4.1 Asia-Pacific

5.4.1.1 China

5.4.1.2 India

5.4.1.3 Japan

5.4.1.4 South Korea

5.4.1.5 Rest of Asia-Pacific

5.4.2 North America

5.4.2.1 United States

5.4.2.2 Canada

5.4.2.3 Mexico

5.4.3 Europe

5.4.3.1 Germany

5.4.3.2 United Kingdom

5.4.3.3 France

5.4.3.4 Italy

5.4.3.5 Russia

5.4.3.6 Rest of Europe

5.4.4 South America

5.4.4.1 Brazil

5.4.4.2 Argentina

5.4.4.3 Rest of South America

5.4.5 Middle-East and Africa

5.4.5.1 Saudi Arabia

5.4.5.2 South Africa

5.4.5.3 Rest of Middle-East and Africa

6 Competitive Landscape

6.1 Market Concentration

6.2 Strategic Moves

6.3 Market Share(%)/Ranking Analysis

6.4 Company Profiles (includes Global level Overview, Market level overview, Core Segments, Financials as available, Strategic Information, Market Rank/Share for key companies, Products and Services, and Recent Developments)

6.4.1 Asbury Carbons

6.4.2 BTR New Material Group Co., Ltd.

6.4.3 GrafTech International

6.4.4 Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH

6.4.5 Imerys

6.4.6 Mason Resources Inc.

6.4.7 Mersen

6.4.8 Nippon Kokuen Group

6.4.9 Northern Graphite

6.4.10 POCO

6.4.11 Resonac Holdings Corporation

6.4.12 SGL Carbon

6.4.13 Shanghai Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd.

6.4.14 Syrah Resources Limited

6.4.15 Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd.

6.4.16 Triton Minerals Limited

7 Market Opportunities and Future Outlook

7.1 White-space and Unmet-Need Assessment

7.2 Increasing Applications of Graphite in Green Technologies

7.3 Increasing Graphene Demand and Nuclear Energy