VANCOUVER, BC – July 22, 2026 – Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) (“G1”, “Graphite One” or the “Company”), developer of the Graphite Creek Project in Alaska and the only company developing a fully integrated U.S. graphite supply chain spanning mining, advanced anode materials production and planned recycling, today highlighted the significance of President Trump’s July 20, 2026 Executive Order, “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials.” (the “Executive Order”).
The Executive Order expands federal efforts to strengthen domestic sourcing of critical materials essential to national defense and advanced manufacturing by reinforcing domestic procurement requirements, reducing reliance on foreign supply chains, accelerating qualification of new domestic suppliers and improving supply chain transparency. The United States remains 100% import dependent on natural graphite, one of the most strategically important critical minerals supporting defense systems, batteries, artificial intelligence infrastructure, grid-scale energy storage and advanced manufacturing.
