Tirupati Graphite plc provide an update on activities at its speciality graphite downstream operations in India, where it is developing a suite of speciality graphite for use in hi-tech applications like lithium-ion batteries, fire retardants, thermal management, and composites. Tirupati continues to advance its operations across its portfolio including primary mining and processing projects in Madagascar and speciality graphite and graphene processing businesses in India. The Company is developing a suite of speciality graphite for use in hi-tech applications like lithium-ion batteries, fire retardants, thermal management, and composites at its Patalganga Project in India; this is part of Tirupati Speciality Graphite Private Limited ('TSG'), with whom the Company has a binding acquisition agreement subject to regulatory approvals. Following its decision to fast track the scaled-up development of its 15,000 tpa speciality graphite project, the Company is setting up a dedicated product development facility using its expandable graphite and other speciality graphite materials. Accordingly, to kick-starts this process, TSG has been allotted an additional circa one-acre plot in Patalganga by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, which was earlier planned for expanding the Patalganga facilities. This complements the development of markets for the Company's integrated, multi-product 15,000 tpa downstream specialty graphite project expected to commence by first half 2022.