Russia's insistence on paying for Russian gas in rubles has rattled European countries: Greece held an emergency meeting of suppliers, the Dutch government would urge consumers to use less gas, and the French energy regulator told consumers not to panic. Russian gas meets one-third of Europe's annual energy needs.

Russia said they could expand their demand for ruble payments for other commodities, including oil, grain, fertilizer, coal, and metals, which raised the risk of recession in Europe and the US. 

Moscow is expected to unveil its ruble payment plan in early April, but it said it would not immediately ask buyers to pay for gas in rubles.  

Western countries have said paying in rubles would be a breach of contract, and renegotiation could take months or longer. This uncertainty has pushed commodity market prices higher.

The supply and prices of other commodities like the artificial graphite could also be affected.

Graphite electrodes

It is mainly made of petroleum and needle coke as raw materials and coal tar pitch as a binder. It is made by calcining, batching, kneading, pressing, roasting, graphitization and machining. According to their quality indicators, conductors that are heated and melted can be divided into ordinary power, high power and ultra-high power. Graphite electrodes include:

(1) Common power graphite electrodes. Graphite electrodes with a current density lower than 17A/cm2 are allowed to be used, mainly in ordinary power electric furnaces such as steelmaking, silicon making, and yellow phosphorus smelting.

(2) Anti-oxidation coated graphite electrode. The surface of the graphite electrode is coated with an anti-oxidation protective layer to form a protective layer that is both conductive and resistant to high-temperature oxidation, reducing electrode consumption during steelmaking.

(3) High-power graphite electrodes. It is allowed to use graphite electrodes with a current density of 18-25A/cm2, mainly used in high-power electric arc furnaces for steelmaking.

(4) Ultra-high power graphite electrodes. Graphite electrodes with current densities of more than 25 A/cm are allowed and are mainly used for ultra-high power steelmaking electric arc furnaces.

Graphite anodes

It is mainly made of petroleum coke as raw material and coal tar pitch as a binder. It is generally used as a conductive anode for electrolysis equipment in the electrochemical industry. include:

(1) Various chemical anode plates.

(2) Various anode rods.

Special graphite

Mainly using high-quality petroleum coke as raw material, coal tar or synthetic resin as binder, through raw material preparation, batching, kneading, tabletting, crushing, re-kneading, moulding, multiple roasting, and multiple roasting impregnations, purification and graphitization, Machined. Generally used in aerospace, electronics and nuclear industries.

It includes pure graphite, high-purity, high-strength, high-density and pyrolytic graphite.

graphite heat exchanger

The artificial graphite is processed into the required shape and then impregnated and cured with resin to make impermeable graphite products for heat exchange. Used in the chemical industry. include:

(1) Block hole heat exchanger;

(2) Radial heat exchanger;

(3) Falling film heat exchanger;

(4) Tube heat exchanger.

Non-standard products

Refers to various special-shaped graphite products transformed from graphite products after further processing, including shovel anodes, fluorine anodes and crucibles, plates, rods, blocks and other special-shaped products of various specifications.

Impermeable graphite

It refers to various graphite special-shaped products made by impregnation and processing of resin and various organic substances, including the matrix block of the heat exchanger.

High quality artificial graphite manufacturer
Luoyang Moon & Star New Energy Technology Co., LTD, founded on October 17, 2008, is a high-tech enterprise committed to the research and development, production, processing, sales and technical services of lithium ion battery anode materials. After more than 10 years of development, the company has gradually developed into a diversified product structure with natural graphite, artificial graphite, composite graphite, intermediate phase and other negative materials (silicon carbon materials, etc.). The products are widely used in high-end lithium ion digital, power and energy storage batteries.
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