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- Applications of the graphene coating include automotive, electronics and aerospace markets and anywhere the use of toxic chemicals, such as hexavalent chromium (“Chrome VI”), are banned.
- The graphene coating can be applied with industrial scale roll to roll machinery, reducing postformation spray coating steps and improving manufacturing efficiency across products including automobile bodies to battery casings.
September 12 2016- Talga Resources Ltd has produced and delivered its first value-added graphene based product. The product, a metal pre-treatment coating (“Coating”), was delivered to a leading global coatings company following the filing of a patent application over the Coating composition and production method.
The Coating is the first of a range of targeted value-added products that Talga is developing and looking to commercialise (see ASX:TLG 19th July 2016). The global coatings company assessing the Coating will undertake accelerated application and performance trials over coming months. At the same time, further tests on Talga’s Coating are underway at research institutions in India and the UK, where scientific peer review analysis and publication of the results will be conducted. Pending the outcome of the industry and academic Coating test work, the Company will, in addition to existing raw material initiatives, pursue commercial opportunities including licensing and royalty arrangements with third parties. Talga’s patent application over its Coating composition and manufacturing method allows the Company to enter into formal metal pre-treatment knowledge sharing undertakings and expands the Company’s intellectual property (“IP”). As part of the Company’s IP initiatives, it has also moved to globally trademark ‘Talphene’ and ‘Talphite’ as Talga’s respective brands for industrial scale graphene and micro-graphite products. TalpheneTM and TalphiteTM will form the marketing platform for Talga’s products manufactured via its unique production technology.
Talga Managing Director Mark Thompson said: “This milestone is the first step to open up numerous growth opportunities in valuable industrial scale markets for graphene products. We have now demonstrated our capability in producing the first of what will be a range of targeted, valueadded products to complement Talga’s raw material manufacturing. This supports our strategy to broaden the range of future revenue options and provides opportunities to pursue licensing and royalties associated with the products themselves, as well as the processes adopted to manufacture the compositions.”
