Ann: Hexagon Builds Focus on Downstream Strategy, page-14

From the article NZPepsi posted

'The battery analysts said China supplied 56 percent of the world's flake graphite supply – the mined feedstock that is used to manufacturer lithium-ion battery anodes – and 100 percent of the world's uncoated spherical graphite supply during 2017'

Possibly HXG will be the first producer of uncoated spherical graphite outside China... (can someone confirm if uncoated was in our product mix, im pretty sure we were aiming to displace synthetic graphite but unsure where uncoated graphite falls)

Point stand though US is very undeveloped in downstream production of graphite & there only supplier is on the tits of the president...