Albemarle is a leading provider of lithium, bromine and other essential elements. 

We develop products that make buildings more efficient and energy grid storage safe, reliable, scalable and cost-effective. 

We enable the always-on world to make technology more consistent and reliable, from fire safety compounds in industrial wires and cables to the protective glass on phones. 

We produce specialty chemicals and additives for medicines, disinfectants and solutions that keep our food and water safe and plentiful.  

Lithium from Albemarle’s proposed mine project in Kings Mountain is expected to play a critical role in growing the U.S. lithium supply chain.  

Lithium is one of the world’s most important minerals. It helps power our lives as a building block for modern battery technology, enabling electrification, clean energy and sustainable transportation, particularly electric vehicles. It’s so critical that the pioneers of lithium-ion battery technology won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2019 for their work in technology recognized as the “basis of our new rechargeable world.”

Lithium compounds are used to manufacture many of the products we all use every day. 

Lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide are needed for lithium-ion batteries in our mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, as well as in electric vehicles. Butyllithium is needed for the production of synthetic rubber for tires. Lithium organics are versatile tools for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, flavors and fragrances. The glass industry requires lithium carbonate or spodumene to improve the properties of glass. A cook plate made of glass ceramics would not exist without lithium carbonate as this ingredient reduces its thermal expansion. Lithium bromide is used in industrial absorption refrigeration systems installed in large buildings and industrial plants for air conditioning or process cooling.