Talga Selects Site for Graphite-to-Graphene Demonstration Plant

Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) announced that will build its graphite-to-graphene demonstration plant at a leased site in Germany. Now that the site is chosen, the company will be able to make preparations for starting the next stage of upscaling work at graphite ore from its Sweden-based Vittangi project.

As quoted in the press release:

The German site is within the Rudolstadt-Schwarza (‘Rudolstadt’) chemical processing hub in the state of Thuringia near the major regional town of Jena. The government owned facility built in 2008 includes a 1,248m2 production area with attached 323m2 office space and an adjacent 1,167m2 ore dressing/ warehouse.

The leasing deal is part of Talga’s strategy to capitalise on commercial opportunities presenting themselves in the region where graphene technologists and end-users are requiring near term large graphene samples. The plant will demonstrate commercial scale direct ore-to-graphene process technology capable of delivering industrial volumes for customer samples and/or sale. Talga aims to remove volume and cost roadblocks, enabling end users to accelerate development of their graphene-based products to suit Talga’s full scale production in future.

The site is just 35km from Talga’s Thuringia-based research partner, Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena. This proximity ensures state-of-the-art analytics and research expertise will be close to the demonstration plant, assisting the pace of both process scale-up and graphene product testing. It is also near Talga’s second research group partners, Dresden University and the Max Planck Institute, Mainz.

Mark Thompson, managing director of Talga, commented:

We are very fortunate to have secured what is almost a new premise in a well located chemical hub close to our research partners and industry. The level of government interaction and support to attract Talga to the region has been compelling. Material funding support is on offer, industrial neighbours at the site include an adjacent polymer factory, our site is close to services for our workforce and it is very central to all our work programs. We have made measurable progress in Germany this year and with the site secured, Talga can now focus on engineering and recruitment to commence maiden processing of our Vittangi ore, into graphite and graphene, in the next few months.

Click here to read the full Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) press release.