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Australia-based Talga Resources managed to raise $5.5 million AUD (around $4.2 million USD) in a discounted placement. These funds are aimed toward helping the company with its Swedish graphite projects and building a graphene demonstration plant in Germany.

The company states that this capital would strengthen its balance sheet and add depth to its register, in addition to accelerating and expanding opportunities to commercialize graphene through strategic relationships with industry.

Talga Resources announced its plan to construct a graphene demonstration plant in central Germany. The plant is to produce between 100 t/y and 200 t/y of graphene, with feedstock sourced from Talga’s Swedish projects. 

Talga says that the decision to proceed with a demonstration plant followed Talga’s success in moving its high-grade Swedish graphite ores from laboratory to bench top scale and replicating graphene process results in multiple countries with several parties. According to the company, the next stage of development will expand to a locked-cycle demonstration scale plant able to produce meaningful quantities of graphene and graphite for larger customer samples and material graphene sales in 2015. 

Talga has entered into a joint work program with Dresden University of Technology and the Max Planck Institute, to test and develop low cost bulk graphene production for supercapacitor and battery related applications.

This 12 month research program aims to test and demonstrate the company's low cost bulk graphene product for supercapacitor and other battery related applications. Professor Feng from Dresden University will head the joint work program alongside Professor Klaus Müllen at Max Planck. Both Professors Müllen chair research clusters within the €1 billion Graphene Flagship program.

The Australian Talga Resources announced a graphene research and development program with Friedrich Schiller University Jena, a renowned German materials research organization.

The program has an initial six month duration and will focus on using Talga's graphene to develop superior conductive ink development with potential applications in printable, flexible electronics and other applications (possibly including batteries).

Germany-based Microdrop Technologies (a private provider of equipment, software and services for advanced precision microdispensing and inkjet printing applications) reports that they tested graphene for for applications in micro printing, 3D printing and other related applications - and it exhibited excellent quality and characteristics.

The company will now start advanced tests for applications such as conductive inks, biochips, biomedicine and nanocoatings. Microdrop used graphene supplied by Australia-based miner company Talga Resources. This is Talga's first graphene sale.