Great Lakes Graphite Adds Industry Veteran Alan Devaney to Sales Team

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Feb. 29, 2016) - Great Lakes Graphite Inc. ("GLK" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:GLK)(OTC PINK:GLKIF)(FRANKFURT:8GL) today announces that Mr. Alan Devaney has joined the Company as Vice President of Sales. Alan has been working with the Company for the past few months as a consultant and is now prepared to transition into a leadership role within the sales organization.

Alan Devaney brings a wealth of industrial minerals experience to the Company. Alan was an integral part of the sales team that built an 80 million dollar operation at HC Starck, a leading premium supplier of advanced, strategic metals. Alan brings a combination of technical depth and people skills that suit him exceptionally well when working with the types of customers who purchase graphite. The value GLK seeks to provide goes well beyond simply offering a new source for high quality industrial minerals. GLK works closely with customers to understand issues they are working to solve. In depth industry knowledge and engineering expertise helps GLK customers identify the right solution for their particular situation.

In addition to H.C. Starck Inc., where Alan served as Marketing and Sales Manager, he was most recently Executive Vice President at Orchard Material Technology in North Andover, Massachusetts where, among other things, he was responsible for project management in Global Refractory Metals.

Great Lakes Graphite CEO Paul Gorman said, "The ability for Great Lakes Graphite to successfully execute our business plan depends on our ability to attract the highest quality professionals in all aspects of our operation. Alan has a level of knowledge, experience and credibility that instills confidence and brings tremendous value to customers."

Alan also served for several years as Product Manager for Materion Advanced Chemicals where he had responsibility for specialty inorganic chemicals and played a key role in the inorganic chemicals business in the battery and LED markets. Materion is one of the world's premier advanced materials solutions providers that is committed to developing, manufacturing and marketing highly engineered advanced materials for global customers across a wide range of markets, including consumer electronics, defense and science, industrial and aerospace, automotive electronics, telecommunications infrastructure, appliances, medical and energy.

About Great Lakes Graphite: Great Lakes Graphite Inc. is an industrial minerals company focussed on bringing value-added carbon products to a well-defined market.

The Company's Innovation Division has entered into long-term agreements for use of the Matheson Micronization Facility and for supply of high quality natural graphite concentrate (see news release dated 03/23/15) which have positioned Great Lakes Graphite to become an emerging domestic manufacturer and supplier of micronized products to a growing regional customer base where pricing and demand continue to rise.

Further information regarding Great Lakes can be found on the Company's website at: www.GreatLakesGraphite.com.

Great Lakes Graphite trades with symbol GLK on the TSX Venture Exchange and currently has 101,227,645 shares outstanding (145,354,238 fully diluted).

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