Christoph Frey is a qualified mining and process engineer who has worked exclusively in the natural graphite industry for over 27 years. He has been involved in all facets of development and production of natural flake graphite, with expertise in the supervision of graphite mining and processing, managing the development of product portfolios from graphite concentrate to high value graphite products including purified spherical graphite, graphite sales and evaluating, and procuring graphite projects.
Mr Frey had worked at Magnezit Group Europe GmbH (Germany) and was project manager at Dalgraphite in Russia. From 2010 to 2013, Mr Frey was technical director at Graphit Kropfmuehl AG where he worked on the Ancuabe graphite mine in Mozambique. From 2007 to 2009, he was general director of Qingdao Kropfmuehl Graphite based in Qingdao, China. Mr Frey was involved in all facets of development and production of natural flake graphite with expertise in the supervision of graphite mining and processing, managing the development of product portfolios from graphite concentrate to higher value graphite products, graphite sales, and in evaluating and procuring graphite projects.
In 2015, Mr Frey founded ProGraphite GmbH which provides a wide range of consulting and laboratory services to graphite businesses globally.