Currently, the subject areas of carbon and graphite materials, their manufacture, properties and applications need to be described, comprehensively, in book format, at an up-to-date and introductory level. This book introduces the reader to such carbon materials as active carbons, carbons as catalyst supports, carbon blacks, synthetic graphites, anode carbon, carbon fibre/matriz carbon composites, as well as coal-tar pitch, concluding with a Chapter setting out "limits" in emissions of discharges into the atmosphere from these industries.