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Talga Resources has announced that commissioning of all stages of the Phase 2 German pilot test facility has been successfully completed.

In April 2016, Talga announced the commissioning of its Phase 2 processing plant in Germany and has now provided further updates. The pilot test plant is currently configured so that approximately 76% of the input graphitic carbon reports to graphene products (FLG and GNP) and the remaining carbon reports to Talga’s building sector (micrographite) products.

Talga Resources recently signed a collaboration agreement with JenaBatteries to jointly explore the use of Talga’s graphene products in flow batteries. Under the Agreement, Talga will formulate and supply graphene for testing in components producing JenaBatteries’ patented polymer flow battery, a type of redox flow battery suitable for commercial scale and grid applications.

Talga’s graphene will aim to reduce manufacturing costs and increase the performance and longevity of the flow battery components by utilizing graphene’s properties of conductivity, chemical inertness and impermeability.

Talga Resources recently announced its new graphene commercialization strategy, made possible by the growth and scale-up of Talga’s pilot plant facility in Germany.

One of the premier industry sectors identified by Talga was metal pre-treatment coating. Talga now announced that it manufactured its first graphene coating product, and delivered it to its industry partner. This partner is highly likely to be Tata Steel - with whom Talga has been collaborating since the end of 2015.

Talga Resources has outlined its updated commercialization strategy. It is seeking to unlock early commercialization opportunities based on the production of four specific graphene products for use within targeted industrial markets. The development of these product lines is in addition to the supply of raw graphene and graphite materials which has been the Company’s focus to date.

The new strategy is reportedly a progression made possible by the growth of Talga’s pilot plant facility in Germany. Recent equipment scale up and a significant boost to the Company’s technical team enables this new ‘applied products’ capability and expedited path to associated sources of revenue.

Talga Resources has announced its intention to raise around $8 million USD from private investors, including the Smedvig Family Office, a Norwegian family office that has considerable experience in investing in the natural resources sector globally. Investors also have received options to raise a further $670,000 USD.

Talga's Managing Director stated that ...The predominantly Scandinavian based investment group shares our vision to make Talga a world-class graphene technology and production house, and brings new strength to our investor base. In addition, these investors provide commitment to long term financial support as we grow and allows Talga to accelerate its business plans. Importantly, the investment comes after a lengthy and detailed due diligence exercise. Talga looks forward to leveraging from the new European connections that will come from this transaction, particularly in Scandinavia."

Talga Resources announced the commissioning of its Phase 2 processing plant in Germany, an expansion which will bring about increased capacity for their development of graphene production techniques. While Talga is not yet up to full scale mining at its Vittangi project in Sweden, it has aimed to develop graphite and graphene product specifications and identify applications that will improve the performance of existing industrial materials.

New production cells installed at the Rudolstadt test-work facility have upgraded processing ability from 10kg to 50kg slabs of graphite per cell, with a total ore feed capacity of 365kg. Talga utilizes electrochemical exfoliation to unzip layers of graphite at the atomic level from raw slabs of high grade Vittangi graphite, as well as a proprietary recovery and concentration process.

Talga Resources announced signing a collaboration agreement under which it, along with Tata Steel UK, will explore opportunities in graphene supply, processing and applications. The agreement links Talga’s emerging industrial scale graphene production to Tata’s growing large volume graphene coating innovations.

Initial work will have Talga supply graphene and graphitic carbon materials for use across applications in various Tata research programs including, but not limited to, anti-corrosion pigments and conductive, formable, barrier and thermal coatings.

Talga Resources, the Australia-based miner company with gold assets in Australia and high-grade graphite resource in Sweden, announced giving options to sell three gold mining sites, as it aims to focus on graphite and graphene opportunities "without distraction".

Talga owns five high-grade graphite projects in Norrbotten Country in north Sweden, and has not kept its ambitions to become a leading supplier of bulk graphene a secret. The company stated that it would invest the money it received from the sale of these options to resource its graphite and graphene projects in Sweden and Germany.

Haydale has announced an agreement with Australian technology materials development company Talga Resources. As part of the collaboration, Talga and Haydale will jointly explore industrial scale business cooperation opportunities utilising Talga graphitic carbon nanomaterials, graphite and GNP’s value-added with Haydale’s proprietary low temperature plasma functionalization treatment and end user demand chains. 

The initial project will be for Haydale to analyse Talga carbon nanomaterial samples with aims of using those materials in its ongoing composite or ink research programmes and develop tailored finished or functionalized products that can be supplied to both Haydale and Talga’s end users or intermediaries for integration by them into their end use applications. Haydale is hopeful that this initial project will, over time, lead to additional projects with associated revenue streams.

Talga Resources recently announced its plan to construct a graphene demonstration plant in central Germany. Now, the company declared it has chosen a leased site on which to build the demo plant. The German site is within the Rudolstadt-Schwarza chemical processing hub in the state of Thuringia near the major regional town of Jena and will include a 1,248m² production area, 323m² office space and 1,167m² ore dressing/warehouse.

Talga can now make preparations to commence next stage upscaling work on graphite ore mined from its flagship Vittangi project in Sweden, possibly as early as July of this year. It is also located just 35 kilometres from Talga’s Thuringia-based research partner, Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena.