GrafTech International Ltd. is a manufacturer of graphite electrodes and petroleum coke, which are essential for the production of electric arc furnace steel and other metals.

The company is headquartered in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio and has manufacturing facilities in Calais, France, Pamplona, Spain, Monterrey, Mexico, and St. Marys, Pennsylvania.

[2] In 1956, the company received an Academy Award for the development and production of a high-efficiency yellow flame carbon for motion picture color photography.

One is for pioneering battery research made at Parma by Lewis Urry and National Carbon Company.

[12] On April 1, 1998, the company was subject to a class action lawsuit for allegedly artificially inflating stock price.