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From coal to critical.

US Carbon is building graphite and advanced carbon products for the next industrial boom. Our patent-pending catalytic graphitization technology is a fundamentally better way to make critical carbon.

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Six crucibles glowing red-orange inside a US Carbon graphitization furnace.
Kilogram-scale batch at temperature

Graphite is in every lithium-ion battery, every electric-arc steel furnace and the core of many advanced nuclear reactors. The United States imports nearly all of it.

More than 95% of the world’s synthetic graphite capacity is in China, which has restricted graphite exports since December 2023.

US Carbon is building a domestic supply from a feedstock America has in abundance: Powder River Basin coal.

No graphite, no 21st‑century technology.

One US Carbon production line makes four grades.

  • Battery anode & electrode

    Spheroidal graphite for lithium-ion anodes. Our most developed product.

    Samples available

  • Composite

    Blended with binders and formed for metallurgy, electronics and aerospace resins.

    In development

  • Industrial

    Lubricants, anti-static and less exacting uses. All our grades meet MIL-155C.

    Meets MIL-155C

  • Nuclear

    Ultra-high-purity route for TRISO fuel and bulk graphite blocks.

    Being verified

Half the heat. Hours, not weeks.

Catalysis makes all the difference — working in a conventional furnace, with abundant feedstocks.

  1. Conventional synthetic graphite

    Acheson process, invented 1896. Petroleum-coke feedstock.

    ~3,000 °CDays to weeks

  2. US Carbon catalytic graphitization

    Wyoming coal and a recycled iron catalyst, in a commercially available furnace.

    1,500 °C3 hours
How the process works

Moving now.

All newsHow we got here
  1. Sep 2026US Carbon files a patent on its graphite production process
  2. Jul 2026US Carbon begins a cooperative R&D agreement (CRADA) with NETL
  3. Oct 2025US Carbon graphite is third-party validated
  4. Jan 2025US Carbon launches its graphitization R&D lab
The Wyoming Innovation Center site at dusk, snow on the ground and an orange horizon.

Permitted to 1,000 tonnes a year.

The pilot site

Scale-up path

  1. KilogramsNow

    Our process is third-party validated. Samples are now being made for customer qualification.

  2. TonsSoon

    Pilot-scale build-out under way at the Wyoming Innovation Center.

  3. KilotonsBy 2030

    Our target: commercial capacity to replace graphite imports from China.

Crucibles glowing orange inside the kilogram-scale graphitization furnace.
Kilograms: our graphitization furnace at temperature
A large rotary kiln drum on its steel support frame at the Wyoming Innovation Center.
Kilotons: an industrial rotary kiln