Total Graphite has launched a new trading line aimed at selling downstream processed graphite products into higher-value markets.
The company is using third-party processed graphite supply to enter markets where demand is linked to batteries, semiconductors, aerospace, nuclear uses, flame retardants, gaskets and specialist industrial applications.
The company says the trading business has completed proof of concept and is expected to support up to four value-added graphite products during the first half of the financial year. These include high-purity flake graphite for electric vehicle battery anodes, ultra-high-purity flake graphite for advanced technology uses, expandable graphite and colloidal graphite.
The commercial relevance is that Total Graphite expects the line to deliver additional positive margins without needing extra working capital.
The larger aim is to use this trading activity to build customer relationships and qualify products that could later be made using Total Graphite’s own natural flake graphite from Madagascar or Mozambique. If that process is successful, it could create a clearer route from the company’s African graphite assets into end-user markets.
Tirupati Graphite PLC (LON:TGR) is a fully integrated specialist graphite and graphene producer, with operations in Madagascar and Mozambique. The Company is delivering on this strategy by being fully integrated from mine to graphene. Its global multi-location operations include primary mining and processing in Madagascar, hi-tech graphite processing in India to produce specialty graphite, and a state-of-art graphene and technology R&D center to be established in India.
