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Rain CII Carbon (Rain Industries)
Largest independent calcined petroleum coke (CPC) producer globally; ~25% global market share; part of Rain Industries (India); operates calcining plants in the US (New Orleans, Chalmette LA), Europe, and India; buys green petcoke from Gulf Coast refineries and exports CPC to aluminum smelters worldwide
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Rain CII Carbon -- Chalmette, Louisiana →
USChalmette, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA · chemical_plant
Major Rain CII Carbon coal tar pitch and calcined petroleum coke processing facility. Gulf Coast location enables feedstock import and product export. Rain CII is the largest North American CTP and CPC producer for aluminum industry anodes.
Rain CII – Chalmette Calcining (Louisiana) →
USLouisiana
Rain CII's flagship US calcining plant near New Orleans, LA; uses green petcoke from Gulf Coast refineries (Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP); produces anode-grade CPC for export to global aluminum smelters; proximity to refineries and port is strategic advantage
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Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC)
70%Green Petroleum Coke (GPC) Trading
15%Specialty Products
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Chokepoint2023
Rain CII Carbon calcined petroleum coke (CPC) is the dominant raw material for aluminum smelter carbon anodes -- the consumable electrodes that are depleted in the Hall-Héroult aluminum smelting process. Every tonne of primary aluminum produced requires approximately 0.4 tonnes of CPC for anodes. Rain CII controls approximately 25% of global CPC supply, meaning one quarter of global aluminum production depends on an Indian-owned company processing petroleum refinery byproducts from Gulf Coast US refineries. The downstream aluminum goes into aerospace, automotive, construction, and defense applications globally. A disruption to Rain CII's New Orleans calcining facilities (from hurricane, regulatory action, or operational failure) would simultaneously constrain aluminum production for Boeing aircraft, Ford EV body panels, and US defense contractor materials at facilities receiving Rain CII-origin CPC-made anodes.
Rain CII Carbon LLC ↗Origin2023
Rain CII Carbon was formed when Rain Commodities (a Hyderabad, India-based bulk materials company founded by N. Jagan Mohan Reddy) acquired CII Carbon (a New Orleans-based US petcoke calciner) in 2007 for approximately $595M. CII Carbon itself was founded in 1945 in Louisiana to process the green petroleum coke byproduct from Gulf Coast refineries. The Gulf Coast concentration of delayed coking refineries (which produce green petcoke as a petroleum residue byproduct) gave CII Carbon access to abundant, low-cost feedstock. Rain Commodities recognized that calcined petroleum coke was a specialized intermediate with limited global producers and captive demand from aluminum smelters, and assembled a global CPC platform through acquisitions. The result is that an Indian family conglomerate owns the single largest independent supplier of the carbon anode material that aluminum smelters globally depend on, operating facilities built originally by US petroleum industry byproduct processors.
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