Next Graphite, Inc. announce that its Aukam processing plant has been commissioned successfully and an initial shipment of graphite concentrate has been made. The Aukam processing plant was constructed between December 2017 and March 2018, with initial throughput and optimization reached during March and April 2018. To date, the plant has generated 5 tons of graphite concentrate grading between 88%-95% Carbon as Graphite (Cg) of which 2.5 tons of concentrate has been shipped to Perpetuus Carbon Technologies for the manufacture of graphenes to be used in the automobile and bicycle tire industry. The Aukam processing plant uses a simple crushing, grinding and flotation system with a current capacity of 650 tons per annum. Construction is already underway for the installation of a larger mill with an 11,000 ton per annum capacity. Graphite Feed for the Aukam processing plant is obtained from screening and sorting of stockpiles existing from historical and recent mining. An average feed grade of 56.29% Cg with a range of 41.55% Cg to 63.87% Cg was determined from ten 2kg to 30kg grab samples from across the stockpiled lumps. Note that assays of grab samples should not be taken as necessarily representative of the mineralization on the Aukam property as a whole.