Graphinex Townsville Graphite-to-Anode Demonstration Facility

Graphinex's vertically integrated graphite-to-anode demonstration facility at Townsville, Queensland, described by the Queensland Government on 24 April 2026 as Australia's first facility to turn raw graphite into battery-ready material and as now operational. The plant runs on graphite mined and processed from Graphinex's Esmeralda project near Croydon in North West Queensland; the Crisafulli Government states it streamlined approvals to support the facility and declared the Esmeralda Graphite Project a Prescribed Project. The facility qualifies for this corpus on the processing-or-later basis as an Australian facility named in an official government source; the Esmeralda mine itself is excluded, because the only financing attached to it in the same statement is a US Export-Import Bank Letter of Interest, and non-binding letters of interest never qualify as government involvement. No capacity, purity or timeline figures appear in the statement, so none are recorded, and the internal split between purification and anode finishing is inferred from the 'vertically integrated graphite-to-anode' description rather than stated.

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.