Tokai COBEX Savoie BAM4EVER Battery Anode Material Plant (Vénissieux)

Tokai COBEX Savoie SAS's battery anode material (BAM) operation at its Vénissieux production site near Lyon, France — the plant behind 'BAM4EVER (Phase I&II)', recognised on 25 March 2025 as a Strategic Project under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act. The site-specific evidence is a June 2022 report by the Rhône unit of DREAL Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on the company's March 2022 filing for a modification titled 'Battery Anode Material (BAM)': developing on site the production of 200 tonnes per month of graphite powder for lithium-ion EV batteries, by crushing and micronising graphite blocks in an existing building with continuous laser particle-size control targeting a 30 µm finished product. Two loaded sources characterise the feed differently — the prefectural filing classifies 500 t of the BAM feedstock as natural graphite, while Tokai COBEX's own product literature describes its E³BAM as synthetic graphite of 99.99% carbon purity mass-produced in purpose-built facilities in France. Both are recorded as they stand rather than reconciled. Business France's France For Batteries directory states that Tokai COBEX Savoie has built brownfield BAM capacity in the AuRA region and lists a current European BAM volume of 2,000 t, which is the basis for the operating status. Trade-press reports that the greenfield Phase III scale-up was paused could not be loaded this pass (Usine Nouvelle returned HTTP 403) and are not recorded. The site's ICPE-authorised principal activity is carbon manufacture / graphitisation and cathode baking for the aluminium industry, which is out of scope for this chain; only the BAM line is tracked here.

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