Method for manufacturing high-density artificial graphite electrode

A method for manufacturing a high-density artificial graphite electrode for electric steelmaking by pulverizing needle coke, kneading the pulverized needle coke with binder pitch, extrusion molding thereof, and then calcining and graphitizing thereof, the method comprising pulverizing needle coke, and then performing coke shape changing treatment for some or all of the pulverized needle coke, thereby increasing a ratio of an enveloping perimeter/a perimeter (EA/LA) of the needle coke after the shape changing treatment by 1% or more as compared with a value (E0/L0) before the shape changing treatment as a reference, wherein the enveloping perimeter is a length of a perimeter when apexes of convex portions of a particle of the needle coke are connected to each other via the shortest distance, and the perimeter is a length of a perimeter of the particle of the needle coke;

• wherein the needle coke for which the shape changing treatment is performed is pulverized needle coke having a particle size of 500 μm or less as classified by sieving.