OCSiAl is the world’s largest producer of graphene nanotubes. In addition to the synthesis of nanotubes themselves, we are creating industry-friendly technologies for their use in various materials.
Our team consists of more than 450 employees located in Europe, America and Asia.
OCSiAl’s mission is to improve the specific properties of all base materials,* making the world a better place for all living beings.
We are pursuing this mission by developing universal nanoadditives and introducing them into the manufacturing industry. This will lead to the creation of a new generation of nanoaugmented materials and end products, whose previously unobtainable properties will become the standard for consumer expectations.
Enhancing the specific properties of materials radically reduces their “price per property”. Fewer actual materials will be needed to create more effective products. This fundamental shift will play a crucial role in the necessary reduction of carbon emissions, helping halt the degradation of our biosphere and allow people throughout the world to raise standards of living and reap the benefits of modern civilization.
The name OCSiAl consists of the symbols of four chemical elements. Three of them are the most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust: oxygen (O), silicon (Si) and aluminum (Al).
The fourth element, carbon (C), is a special element, fundamental to life and nanotechnologies. It is undoubtedly destined to change the face of modern-day technology in the very near future.
We believe that carbon nanomaterials – graphene nanotubes and graphene sheets – will form the core of future changes.
OCSiAl’s history began in 2009 with the question “Is it possible to create an industrial technology for synthesizing graphene nanotubes scalable to hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year, and to significantly reduce the price paid by consumer by 100 times?”
In 2010, the well-known physicist Mikhail Predtechenskiy and the businessmen Yury Koropachinskiy, Oleg Kirillov and Yuri Zelvenskiy built a team and established the OCSiAl company in Luxembourg to overcome this challenge.
On 14 November, the company launched Graphetron 1.0 – the first industrial-scale facility for graphene nanotube synthesis. With a capacity of 1 tonne of TUBALL™ per year, it became the world’s largest facility.
On 12 May, OCSiAl’s core product – TUBALL™ graphene nanotubes – was introduced to the market at the Institute of Minerals, Materials and Mining in London.
OCSiAl opened its own research facility, TUBALL CENTER, in Novosibirsk. The center focuses on optimization of industrial graphene nanotube application technologies and the prototyping of nanoaugmented materials.
The company opened two new offices — one in South Korea and one in the USA.
In March, OCSiAl founded UJET, a spin-off company.
Construction started on the second facility for graphene nanotube synthesis, Graphetron 50, in Novosibirsk.
In September, after being registered in compliance with the European Union REACH regulations, OCSiAl became the world’s only company authorized to commercialize up to 10 tonnes annually of single wall carbon nanotubes in Europe.
In November, the company signed the first contract for the sale of 1 tonne of TUBALL™.
Branches were opened in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai.
OCSiAl upgraded to increase annual production capacity from the initial 1 tonne up to 10 tonnes.
In July, together with the Luxembourg Government, OCSiAl announced the start of construction of a new TUBALL™ synthesis facility and R&D center in Luxembourg.
In December, the US Environmental Protection Agency approved OCSiAl’s application and authorized the production and sale of up to 25 tonnes of TUBALL™ nanotubes per year in the USA.
Upgrades to the Graphetron 1.0 facility allowed production output to increase to 15 tonnes per year.
OCSiAl completed the installation of the whole Graphetron 50 process equipment complex.
The basic design for the Luxembourg synthesis facility was completed.
Annual sales volume doubled.
Graphetron 50 was commissioned.
In July, OCSiAl joined the ranks of unicorn companies with a valuation of $1 billion.
The joint capacity of the two Novosibirsk synthesis facilities now amounted to 75 tonnes per year.
On December 10, the second TUBALL CENTER, in Shanghai, was opened.
In December, OCSiAl’s regulatory status with the US EPA took a major step forward with the publication of a SNUR in the Federal Register covering OCSiAl’s products, allowing TUBALL™ to be commercialized in industrial volumes in the USA.
In April 2020, OCSiAl has upgraded its dossier under the EU’s REACH legislation and expanded the volume authorized for commercialization in Europe up to 100 tonnes of TUBALL™ nanotubes annually.
Headquartered in Luxembourg, the company is represented in Europe, the USA, China (Shenzhen and Shanghai), Hong Kong, Russia, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan and Mexico.
The research units (TUBALL CENTERs) of the company are located in Novosibirsk, Shanghai and Luxembourg.
OCSiAl’s nanotube production capacity is now 80 tonnes per year. The company accounts for >95% of the global graphene nanotube market.
OCSiAl has a total of 450 employees worldwide.
