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Donald Baxter ,  CEO of Ceylon Graphite (TSX-V:CYL)CEO of Ceylon Graphite (TSX-V:CYL) talks about the company , the vision , mission and his experience on being a CEO in an interview on Crux Investor

Ever since it was separated from bulk graphite for the first time in 2004 [1] , graphene has come under the spotlight of scientific research. Graphene is defined as a single-atom flat monolayer made of sp2-hybridized ' honeycomb' carbon lattice [ 1- 3].

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon”) (TSX-V: CYL) (OTC: CYLYF) (FSE: CCY) is pleased to announce the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding dated June 30, 2021 (the “MOU”) with two subsidiaries of Lanka ORIX Leasing Company Group (“LOLC”). Pursuant to the MOU, Ceylon Graphite, through its subsidiary, Plumbago Refining Corp B.V. (“Plumbago”), and LOLC, through its subsidiaries LOLC GEO Technologies Ltd. (“LOLCGT”) and LOLC Advanced Technologies Ltd. (“LOLCAT”), will work together to develop new graphite mines outside of the existing Ceylon portfolio, and to construct and operate a state-of-the-art graphite processing facility in Sri Lanka.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon Graphite”) (TSX-V:CYL)(OTC:CYLYF)(FSE:CCY) is pleased to announce Ceylon Chief Scientific Executive, Dr. Siva Bohm, and Ceylon Technical Director Dr. Mallika Bohm have published a paper titled “Graphene Production By Cracking” in one of the oldest Journal by the Royal Society, “Philosophical Transaction A”. This follows a long list of publications By Drs. Bohm.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon Graphite”) (TSX-V: CYL) (OTC: CYLYF) (FSE: CCY) is pleased to announce that it has negotiated a debt conversion agreement (the “Debt Agreements”) with Bharat Parashar, the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Ceylon.

“I think we’re seeing real change,” said Baxter in a phone interview. “The EU and Biden take climate change seriously and they are committed to green energy. We’re also seeing real commitment to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) best practices.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon Graphite”) (TSX-V: CYL) (OTC: CYLYF) (FSE: CCY) is pleased to announce that it has acquired an exclusive global licence from Cambridge Advanced Materials & Innovation (“CAMI”). The licence pertains to a method of producing high quality few-layer graphene (“FLG”) and derivatives by exfoliation of high grade vein graphite produced by Ceylon Graphite (“The Technology”).

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon Graphite”) (TSX-V: CYL) (OTC: CYLYF) (FSE: CCY) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Rodney Stevens as Vice President, Corporate Development for the Company. Mr. Stevens is a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) charterholder with over a decade of experience in the capital markets, first as an investment analyst with Salman Partners Inc. and subsequently as a merchant and investment banker. While at Salman Partners, he became a top-rated analyst as named by StarMine on July 17, 2007 for the metals and mining industry. Mr. Stevens was also a Portfolio Manager registered with Wolverton Securities Ltd. and over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in assisting in financings and mergers and acquisitions activities worth over $1 billion in transaction value.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ceylon Graphite Corp. (“Ceylon Graphite”) (TSX-V: CYL) (OTC: CYLYF) (FSE: CCY) today announced that Bharat Parashar has decided to retire as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. The Board of Directors would like to thank Bharat for his dedicated leadership and achievements in setting up Ceylon’s mining operations in Sri Lanka, and setting the Company on a path to supply key materials and technologies to meet the demands ofthe current lithium ion battery storage and EV revolution. Bharat will continue to advise the incoming CEO to ensure an orderly transition. Donald Baxter, P.Eng. will step up from current role as Director to assume the Chief Executive role. Don is one of the premier graphite experts outside of China, having built one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. He has also been responsible for rapidly advancing the development of value-added graphite products, namely coated spherical purified graphite for the lithium-ion battery sector. “I am excited to have this opportunity to step into the CEO role of Ceylon and continue to advance the Company, as the critical supply chains for lithium ion batteries evolve and the need is recognized to build processing capacity outside of China, as well as provide a secure high grade low cost graphite supply,” Said Don Baxter, CEO. “The urgency of this has grown over the past year, and the move to secure materials which are critical to make enough batteries to supply almost every OEM, has accelerated significantly beyond earlier estimates.”