Talga Starts Wet Commissioning of Phase 2 Test Facility

Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) announced that it’s started the wet commissioning of its Phase 2 pilot-scale test facility in Germany.
As quoted in the press release:

Phase 2 is an expansion of and improvement on Talga’s Phase 1 equipment and involves processing shaped raw graphite ore from Talga’s Swedish deposits in slabs up to 50kg in weight each (up from 10kg previously). Additional modified cells have been installed to increase total capacity of the facility to 365kg ore feed at a time.
The production process begins by ‘unzipping’ layers of graphite at an atomic level from Talga’s raw ore slabs in custom designed electrochemical exfoliation cells, followed by proprietary recovery and concentration stages. At full commercial scale, the process aims to deliver industrial volumes of high quality product, at competitive prices.
The Phase 2 expansion is an important operational milestone as Talga continues to scale up and optimise its processing technology, enabling Talga to provide higher volume and tailored sample materials for specific industry based testing.

Mark Thompson, managing director of Talga, commented:

Commencement of Phase 2 commissioning is an exciting milestone for Talga, marking a transition from setting the foundations and achieving a better understanding of the fundamentals that impact graphene manufacturing – at a scale well beyond that possible in a laboratory.

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