Cheltenham-based advanced materials group Versarien has revealed it has received a “significant graphene order” for a carbon fibre composite-related OEM application.
On 13 October, the company announced that following positive test results from the composite project with the National Graphene Institute (NGI), the NGI was purchasing a significant quantity from Versarien for a specific project with a major OEM.
Versarien has now received an order worth more than £100,000 for graphene in the form of Few Layer Graphene Nano Platelets (GNPs) from a European commercial customer, in conjunction with the NGI.
This high-quality graphene will be certified by the NGI and Versarien will be handling the dispersion of the GNPs into the resin to be used by the customer. The resin will be provided by the customer free of charge and will be returned to the customer in Europe once mixed with Versarien's GNPs.
The addition of Versarien's GNPs is expected to provide a significant performance improvement to the customers' product and further significant orders would be required to fulfill market potential.
Versarien chief executive Neill Ricketts, said: "We believe that this order is one of the first significant orders placed in the UK to supply high quality graphene. Versarien is quickly becoming the go to place for high quality GNPs globally, having successfully scaled the business from the lab to the production arena.
"We expect the use of graphene to continue to gain further commercial traction and Versarien is very well placed to be at the forefront of delivering high quality graphene for multiple applications. "We will continue to scale our production to meet demand as it occurs."
