Blencowe targets military batteries with Uganda graphite

What the report says

Blencowe Resources is testing graphite from its Orom-Cross project in Uganda for potential use in military battery applications, working with US technical partner American Energy Technologies Company (AETC) and Florida-based Apollo Energy Systems. Uganda Business News reported that the effort is tied to a Defence Logistics Agency award recorded in a US small-business research database, which identified AETC as developing graphite-processing work for battery anodes. The database entry, however, did not name Blencowe or its Ugandan project, and it described lithium-ion battery materials rather than the lead-acid prototype Blencowe says it is developing.

According to the report, Blencowe said in August that the prototype was intended to meet military battery specifications, with a September update saying the work was still under way. The company has also outlined a possible US pilot production line, though the article stressed that this would be a planned capacity rather than a confirmed military order. The publication noted that company-reported performance results had been described in laboratory testing, but those results do not amount to a binding procurement decision.

The wider commercial context is Blencowe’s effort to create higher-value uses for by-products from graphite processing at Orom-Cross. The company aims to produce uncoated spherical purified graphite in Uganda and has said rejected material could become an additional revenue stream. Uganda Business News also noted that Blencowe needs financing to build out the project, with capital needs and conversion of non-binding agreements into formal deals among its priorities.