Canada's Brookfield Asset management has bought GrafTech and ......"while on the surface it could be seen as a foray to acquire a world leading steel anode and refractory producer, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence believes the long term value lies in its research into new energy storage and advanced material markets."
(my emphasis added)
Read the whole article, link below. It's very interesting.
And so it starts!
Boxterfan
http://www.mining.com/web/graftech-takeover-zeros-in-on-new-energy-defence/?utm_source=digest-en-mining-150519&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digest