Board & Management Waive Warrant Rights for 2022

RNS Number : 7612G
Tirupati Graphite PLC
31 March 2022
 

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31 March 2022

Tirupati Graphite plc

('Tirupati' or the 'Company')

 

Board and Management Waive Warrant Rights for FY 2022

 

Tirupati Graphite plc (TGR.L, TGRHF.OTCQX), the specialist graphite and graphene company developing sustainable new age materials, announces that the Executive Chairman and Managing Director has elected to waive his contractual right to receive 1,496,866 warrants for the current financial year, ended 31 March 2022.  The five-year warrants would have had a strike price of 98 pence per ordinary share.

 

At the same time, the Remuneration Committee has elected not to issue warrants to other members of the Board and management team in respect of the current financial year.

 

ENDS

 

For further information, please visit https://www.tirupatigraphite.co.uk/ or contact:

 

Tirupati Graphite Plc

Puruvi Poddar - Chief of Corporate & Business Development

 

 

admin@tirupatigraphite.co.uk

+44 (0) 20 39849894

Optiva Securities Limited (Broker)

Ben Maitland - Corporate Finance

Robert Emmet - Corporate Broking

 

 

+44 (0) 20 3034 2707

+44 (0) 20 3981 4173

FTI Consulting (Financial PR)

Ben Brewerton / Nick Hennis / Ojasvi Goel / Kelly Smith

 

+44 (0) 20 3727 1000

tirupati@fticonsulting.com

 

 

About Tirupati Graphite

 

Tirupati Graphite Plc is the specialist graphite and graphene company developing sustainable new age materials.  With a unique set of properties, graphite has diverse applications with multiple growth streams and graphene forms the new generation of 2D and advanced materials. The Company places a special emphasis on "green" applications, including renewable energy and energy efficiency, energy storage, thermal management, and advanced materials development, and is committed to ensuring its operations are sustainable as well. 

 

The Company's operations include primary mining and processing in Madagascar, where the Company operates two key projects, Sahamamy and Vatomina; 12,000 tpa installed capacity of high-quality flake graphite concentrate with up to 96% purity is currently being produced and sold to customers globally, planned to increase to 84,000 tpa by end 2024 as per the Company's modular medium-term development plan. 

 

In India, through Tirupati Speciality Graphite Private Limited ('TSG'), with whom the Company has a binding acquisition agreement subject to regulatory approvals, Tirupati is developing a suite of speciality graphite for use in hi-tech applications like lithium-ion batteries, fire retardants, thermal management, and composites. Its current operations include the 1,200 tpa Patalganga Project, focused on manufacturing the Company's trademarked expandable graphite products CARBOFLAMEX® and GrafEN 45545™. TSG is further expanding the Patalganga Project to 4,800 tpa and developing the 30,000 tpa specialty graphite project in two 15,000 tpa modules which will include capabilities to manufacture high-purity, expandable, micronized and spherical graphite and using its unique green processing technologies for the manufacturing of these advanced materials.

TSG has also established and continues to develop the Tirupati Graphene and Mintech Research Centre, a state-of-the-art R&D centre focussed on manufacturing graphene, developing its applications and advanced materials using graphene, and further providing environmentally friendly technologies consultancy for mineral processing.   

 

 

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