New Markets
Creating Innovative and Sustainable Solutions Together
Our answer to the challenges of the future is carbon. In partnership with custom-
ers, the New Markets Business Unit is opening up new opportunities for this fas-
cinating material in the areas of construction, energy and mobility. With its unique properties, carbon still offers immense potential for innovative applications. Nothing can replace it when it comes to finding sustainable solutions.
Every challenge represents an opportunity for us. Just put us to the test.
With a global sales network and modern production sites in Europe, North Amer-
ica and Asia, we are close to customers all over the world. Our portfolio includes products made from graphite, expanded natural graphite, carbon and graphite felt, as well as carbon fiber-reinforced carbon – products optimized to meet individual requirements. We have the expertise to plan, design and process complex compo-
nents and undertake finishing options such as coating, impregnation and purifica-
tion. We combine this broad product range with the long-standing experience of our workforce to offer our customers solutions for their ideas and innovations.
The New Markets Business Unit consists of four segments:
Exploration
The ‘Exploration’ segment is constantly looking for ideas and opportunities in what are new markets for us and employs a diverse range of networks and methods to identify market-driven potentials. In this, we rely on close cooperation and joint product development with present and future customers. We aim to take pilot proj-
ects to industrial-scale readiness before handing them over for commercialization, if they are successful and a profitable business plan exists.
Mobility
The ‘Mobility’ segment is concerned mainly with key components for modern bat-
tery systems such as carbon felts, SIGRACET® bipolar plates for high-temperature and flow batteries, and carbon-based specialties for lithium ion batteries. For the automotive industry, we develop and produce GRALIT™ pistons with light-metal infiltration for combustion engines and compressors to cut fuel consumption and reduce emissions.
Customer-specific development and production of carbon-based specialty prod-
ucts completes our portfolio of the ‘Mobility’ segment.
Energy
Energy is the issue of our time. That’s why, in the ‘Energy’ segment, we address the challenge of developing tailor-made solutions for many sectors of energy tech-
nology. Our know-how in the areas of materials, engineering and project manage-
ment provides the foundation for our market leadership. Our customers include both the nuclear industry and producers and consumers of primary energy.
Construction
Against a background of rising energy costs and threatening climate change, new approaches in building air conditioning are inevitable. ECOPHIT® construction ma-
terials produced from expanded natural graphite not only reduce the energy re-
quirement and operating costs of air conditioning but also make it possible to uti-
lize renewable energy sources. This is because they provide rapid, even distribu-
tion of heat or cold and enable air conditioning systems to be operated at very low temperatures. Together with customers and partners, the ‘Construction’ segment develops resource-saving solutions that enhance the heating and cooling perfor-
mance of surface heating/ cooling systems and increase the heat output of latent heat storage modules for building services engineering. In this way, they also help reduce CO2 emissions in the long term.