Tirupati Graphite plc announced that it has completed the installation and commissioning of its first 9,000 tpa flake graphite module at its Vatomina Project ('Vatomina') in Madagascar. The Company remains focused on strengthening its primary mining and processing in Madagascar where it operates two high-quality flake graphite projects, Sahamamy and Vatomina, which are being developed using a modular approach that provides the flexibility to respond to evolving graphite market conditions. Having commenced production at Sahamamy in March 2019, Tirupati has now completed the installation and commissioning of its first 9,000 tpa flake graphite module at Vatomina, which brings the total production capacity in Madagascar up to 12,000 tpa. Notably, both projects offer a favourable larger flake size distribution, which is priced at a considerable premium to smaller size flakes and is being sold to customers globally. As previously announced in the Company's trading results, the 'Average Selling price per MT of Production' achieved was USD 801/£605. Under the Company's medium-term development plan ('MTDP'), total capacity in Madagascar is planned to increase to 84,000 tpa by 2024. The plant's design, construction and installations were undertaken by the Company using its demonstrated capabilities and experience with the development, construction, implementation, and operations of the 3,000 tpa module at Sahamamy. Major activities included, but were not limited to: o Construction of circa 22,000 square feet ("ft2") of covered buildings including the main plant building, engineering centre, stores, office building and residential accommodation buildings and associated facilities; Design of the raw material crushing and feed system tailor made for the saprolitic ore type from the projects, which were manufactured at the engineering centre by the Company at the plant site; Two Self Attrition Graphite Extractors ('SAGE') units installed in a series, SAGE is a proprietary equipment designed and manufactured by the Company's founders that removes sand from the graphite ore at the first stage or the process and is being successfully used at Sahamamy; A set of milling and flotation equipment which are the key processing circuit components in the process plant to enrich the flake graphite up to 96% purity; Installing dewatering, drying, screening, blending and magnetic separator systems for finishing of flake graphite products that are tailor-made to customer requirements; Installing an electrical system that included 61 electrical motors of ratings ranging from 1 Horsepower ('hp') to 50 hp for a total >530 hp; 12 electrical control and supply panels; 3 diesel generator sets with combined capacity of c.900 Kilo Volt Amperes; and over 3 circuit kilometres of flexible copper cabling; Installing a set of input water, process and tailing pumps integrated with c.3 kilometres of water and tailings line piping. Set up of a Quality Control Laboratory with capacity to test >75 graphite ore, process and finished product samples per day and perform microscopic studies of ore and finished products which is planned to be strengthened further with X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and similar equipment to meet advanced testing requirements of the Company's high-tech customers. o Two mining pits have been opened and supplying ore to the ROM pad and feedstock to the process plant. The commissioning and start of production processes included a series of dry trial runs for each plant equipment followed by the entire processing plant. Wet runs were then executed equipment wise and for the entire process plant, after which feed of ore and start of sellable production was initiated at start-up ore feed rate of 15 tph, being 50% of the plant's rated capacity. All equipment testing, dry and wet commissioning trials were completed successfully with no material defects requiring rectification. The ore feed rate is being progressively increased up to the plants rated capacity as production output ramps up to full plant capacity over the coming 4 to 6 weeks. A number of other development activities continued alongside at the Company's two Madagascan projects, which include, but are not limited to: Progressing with Stage II exploration and drilling programmes initiated in February 2021; Construction of additional and strengthening of existing internal infrastructure and roads, including a road connecting the two projects; Redevelopment of the Sahamamy hydropower plant to a 100-kilo watt capacity; Initiation of activities for the development and advancement of construction of the second 18,000 tpa module at Sahamamy.