Lithium Supply -future price and LKE, page-10

Please refer your conclusion to fig 1 of the article you linked. It clearly states industrial grade lithium chloride is a material used to obtain high purity battery grade lithium carbonate.

"A simulated industrial grade lithium chloride sources were devel-oped by the following reagents; lithium chloride (> 99%, Sigma), so-dium chloride (> 99%, Sigma), magnesium chloride anhydrous(> 98%, Sigma), potassium chloride (> 99%, Sigma), calcium chloridedehydrate (> 99%, Sigma), cupric chloride anhydrous (> 95%, FisherScience), ferric chloride hexahydrate (> 95%, Fisher Science), andnickel chloride hexahydrate (> 95%, Fisher Science). Other reagentsincluded potassium carbonate anhydrous (99%, Sigma), lithium hy-droxide monohydrate (95%, Alfa Aesar), and sodium oxalate (99.99%,Sigma)."

As for production of lithium hydroicide refer to Patent WO2016070217A1
" A process (10) for the production of lithium hydroxide, the process comprising the steps of: (i) Causticising lithium chloride (12) with sodium hydroxide (16) to produce a lithium hydroxide product; (ii) Collecting the solids resulting from the causticisation of step (i) and filtering (22) same; (iii) The filtered solids from step (ii) are passed to a heating step (32) in which anhydrous lithium hydroxide is produced; (iv) Filtering (34) the anhydrous lithium hydroxide product of step (iii); and (v) Quenching the anhydrous lithium hydroxide of step (iv) with water to produce lithium hydroxide monohydrate crystals. "

Based on both patents chloride is precursor to both lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide.

Your statement "The conventional process is to produce the carbonate first then produce the Chloride then the Hydroxide. " doesn't stand.

Therefore the conclusion "....Lilac has reversed engineered the process so that the constituent for Hydroxide is made first....so......." is false.