Perth, 18 December, 2018 – Tianqi Lithium Australia has announced that its staff is moving to Kwinana to prepare for the commissioning and ramp up of the first lithium hydroxide processing plant in Australia.

Jiang Weiping, Chairman of Tianqi Lithium and Roger Cook, Deputy Governor of Western Australia

Tianqi Lithium's Kwinana plant will be the site of two identical processing trains with a total 48,000-tonne capacity constructed in two stages. Stage One commissioning will commence at the end of this year, while Stage Two, currently under construction, is expected to be commissioned at the end of 2019.