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ZEN Graphene Solutions’ Guelph processing facility.
ZEN Graphene Solutions to produce sample sizes for commercial market
The developer of a graphite mine near Hearst has cut the ribbon on a research and production facility in southern Ontario.
ZEN Graphene Solutions announced Feb. 4 of the grand opening of a Guelph-based small-scale pilot plant and R & D centre.
The company (formerly Zenyatta Ventures)
has high hopes for 2020 to enter the global market by delivering a
refined product for end users, and potentially strike some commercial
deals.
Over the years, ZEN has been developing the Albany Graphite Deposit
near the communities of Constance Lake First Nation and the Town of
Hearst.
At their site, 30 kilometres north of the Trans-Canada Highway, the
company discovered a very rare, highly purity graphite deposit that’s
estimated to have an open-pit mine life of 22 years and should produce
33,000 tonnes of graphite a year.
The project is at an advanced stage of exploration with an environmental assessment process underway.
Graphene is a highly prized carbon nanomaterial that has a multitude
of uses, including in electric vehicle batteries, high strength
concrete, water desalination membranes, and auto parts.
ZEN has been concentrating on potential applications in the fields of
transportation, aerospace, bio-medical, civil engineering and water
treatment.
The company has been working with the University of Guelph in
developing a proprietary process to convert graphite ore into
top-quality graphene oxide for high-end users.
They’ve been increasingly fielding requests from clients for larger
sample sizes. That led to ZEN making an arrangement last September with
Chemisar Laboratories to move into a 2,300-square-foot office and lab
space in Guelph by October.
This will serve as ZEN’s processing and production facility to ship
small sample batchers to users in industry and academia for research
purposes.
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at 8:40 AM on Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Thunder Bay, Ontario–(February 4, 2020) – ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.(TSXV: ZEN) (“ZEN” or the “Company“)
is pleased to announce the grand opening of its Guelph facility for
small scale pilot plant production and Research and Development.
James Jordan will be leading the work at the facility and is promoted
to the position of Chief Operating Officer. In other company human
resource review, Colin van der Kuur is now our Head of Research while
Monique Manaigre becomes our Senior Government Relations and Account
Manager.
Shares for Debt Settlement
ZEN announces the issuance of shares in connection with its
previously announced shares for debt agreement with Alphabet Creative.
The Company issued 47,222 common shares at a deemed price of $0.36 per
common share in settlement of a debt of $17,000 owed by the Company. The
common shares issued in connection with the shares for debt agreement
will be subject to a hold period until May 1, 2020 in accordance with
applicable securities laws.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN is an emerging graphene technology solutions company with a focus
on the development of graphene-based nanomaterial products and
applications. The unique Albany Graphite Project provides the company
with a potential competitive advantage in the graphene market as
independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have independently
demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany PureTM Graphite is an ideal precursor
material which easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using a variety
of mechanical, chemical and electrochemical methods.
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at 3:31 PM on Friday, January 31st, 2020
SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
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at 4:05 PM on Monday, January 27th, 2020
SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
Researchers at the India-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) are developing an economical graphene-based supercapacitor
that can present an effective alternative to providing energy to
various applications, including state-of-the-art military equipment,
mobile devices and modern vehicles.
Graphene has been used in the newly developed ultra-capacitors to
replace the expensive activated carbon, and the switch seems to have
also reduced the supercapacitors’ weight and cost by ten times.
The team has developed a new technique for making graphene oxide, which is being used to produce new ultra-capacitors.
CMERI scientist Dr. Naresh Chandra Murmu stated that “scientists have
developed a technique for producing graphene oxide. The production cost
of one kilogram of graphene oxide using this technique comes to around
ten thousand rupees, which is much lesser than the cost of activated
carbon used in supercapacitors. We have modified the surface of graphene
oxide in our research, due to which it has also succeeded in reducing
its weight. We have now reached the advanced stage of making
ultra-capacitors by using this graphene oxide, which can be useful in
various sectors.â€
Former Senior Defense Development Research Organization (DRDO)
official M.H. Rahman said that such devices not only cater to civilian
applications, but can be applicable in strategic and defense
applications as well.
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at 2:06 PM on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
The battery race shows no sign of letting up, even though the gains
feel increasingly marginal. Whether it’s phones or portable consoles,
maximising the life eked out of a slim lithium-ion battery is getting
harder and harder.
For some time, graphene has been touted as one possible solution, a
material that hasn’t been efficiently harnessed yet but which could help
improve charging times and battery life in one fell swoop. Now Real
Graphene, a tech business from Los Angeles, is apparently preparing to
change that.
It has a range of portably power banks on
the market, and ambitious plans to crowdfund the wider production of
banks that go even further with their use of Graphene. For now, Real
Graphene’s banks come in two sizes, a 10,000mAh version and another with
20,000mAh, and have a number of apparent advantages over lithium banks.
For one thing, they charge far more quickly themselves, with the
smaller variant charging completely in 50 minutes, far less time than
the hours most banks need to power themselves up.
Graphene as a material is also extremely lightweight, so down the
line it could lead to lighter batteries, always a welcome change.
However, for now, even Real Graphene’s own batteries are not pure
graphene — they’re a blend of graphene and lithium which gains in speed
but remains affordable to build and sell.
Even so, the reality is that graphene-enhanced batteries will be more
expensive than current lithium equivalents, to the tune of a 30% bump
in cost at Real Graphene’s own estimation. That’s a sizeable leap, so it
shouldn’t be a huge surprise if the tech can’t make too many mainstream
waves until it’s even more affordable in comparison.
Definitive Graphene Manufacturing Process License Agreement–
This agreement licenses to ZEN the intellectual property created
by scientists and laboratories in collaboration with ZEN, and provides
that a royalty is payable by ZEN based on the annual amount of material
processed under the intellectual property.
Signed an 18-month
exclusive initial option agreement with the University of Guelph for
intellectual property regarding an electrochemical exfoliation (ECE)
process to produce Graphene Oxide.
Collaborative Research
Agreement (CRA) Template – Forms the basis of each agreement with
various UBC researchers and Universities.
Each contributing
significantly to unlocking the value of the Albany Graphite deposit and
creating a strong intellectual property foundation.
Graphene Aerogel Battery Development Program:
Coordinating with the German Aerospace Center–
A proprietary aerogel formulation containing
doping with either ZEN’s reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) or Graphene produced via
ZEN’s licensed process was tested. The unoptimized results are believed to be
better than those currently reported in the literature for Graphene Aerogel
batteries.
Graphene-containing aerogels could have the
potential to be a low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials
for near future energy storage applications.
Results extremely positive, and DLR applied for
and received federal funding to create a new Innovation Lab (the Center
for Aerogels) to work with industrial partners on the development of Aerogels
and other graphene-based products.
Albany Graphite:
Significantly outperforms both flake/sedimentary graphite and
synthetic graphite, demonstrating the uniqueness of ZEN’s graphite and
its superior performance to exfoliate into graphene products.
ZEN
currently has an inventory of approximately 110 tonnes of
graphite-mineralized material with an average grade of 6% graphitic
carbon (Cg), 110 kilograms of 86% Cg material, 18 kilograms of 99.8% Cg,
and 300 grams of GO.
The Company will continue to process
material and manufacture graphene-related products on an as-needed basis
for research and development (R&D) and marketing
ZEN’s is
developing a proposed webstore which has an anticipated launch date in
the first quarter of 2020, for which it is developing an inventory in
advance of sales.
Graphene-Enhanced Materials for Next-Level Performance.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. is an emerging advanced materials and
graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure
graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage
relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor
materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK,
Israel, USA and Canada have demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany
Graphite/Naturally PureTM easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene,
using a variety of simple mechanical and chemical methods.
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at 9:19 AM on Monday, March 4th, 2019
Submitted a full mining license application to the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy
The company has submitted its application for Mining License 215 (M L215). The License area falls within the proximity of the Aukam Processing Plant and the Graphite bearing shear zone for a total of 5002 hectares
The license submission is timed strategically with the construction of Gratomic’s onsite processing plant and in conjunction with the recently announced long-term Graphene supply agreement with Vittoria Tires and Gratomic’s partner Perpetuus Advanced Materials.
TORONTO, March 4, 2019 /CNW/ – Gratomic Inc. (“Gratomic” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: GRAT) (CB81–FRANKFURT) a
vertically integrated graphite to graphenes, advanced materials
development company announces that it has submitted a full mining
license application to the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy.
The company has submitted its application for Mining License 215 (M
L215). The License area falls within the proximity of the Aukam
Processing Plant and the Graphite bearing shear zone for a total of 5002
hectares (5002 ha). The mining license was the last step required for
the company to go into full production. The license submission is timed
strategically with the construction of Gratomic’s onsite processing
plant located at the Aukam Graphite Mine in Namibia and in
conjunction with the recently announced long-term Graphene supply
agreement with Vittoria Tires and Gratomic’s partner Perpetuus Advanced
Materials.
Gratomic’s CO-CEO Arno Brand stated, “This marks a
significant milestone in the company’s path to commercializing its Aukam
Graphite mine, through this submission of our mining license we are now
able to start producing graphite from our Aukam Graphite mine at full
capacity.”
About Gratomic Inc. Gratomic is an advanced
materials company focused on mine to market commercialization of
graphite products most notably high value graphene based components for a
range of mass market products. We are collaborating with a leading
European manufacturer of graphenes to use Aukam graphite to manufacture
graphene products for commercialization on an industrial scale. The
company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol GRAT.
“Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.”
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:This news release
contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or
future performance and reflect management’s current expectations and
assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management’s
current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information
currently available to the Company. Investors are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are
subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to
differ materially from those expected. These forward-looking statements
are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable
securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to
update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. All of the
forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by
these cautionary statements and by those made in our filings with SEDAR
in Canada (available at www.sedar.com).
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Appointed Rodger Roden CPA CA as Chief Financial Officer of the Company
Mr. Roden has more than 30 years of industry experience and has worked as Vice President of Finance/Chief Financial Officer with public and private companies
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / November 28, 2018 / Gratomic Inc. (“GRAT” or the”Company”) (TSX-V: GRAT) (FRANKFURT:CB81, WKN:A143MR) is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Rodger Roden CPA CA as Chief FinancialOfficer of the Company. Mr. Roden has more than 30 years of industry experience and has worked as Vice President of Finance/Chief Financial Officer with publicand private companies in a broad range of industries including the mineralsector.His experience includes allaspects of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, IT implementations,tax, and business systems and process analyses and implementation.Mr. Roden replaces Doug Newman who hasresigned as CFO to focus on his other business endeavours.The Board of directors of Gratomic wish tothank Doug for his service to the Company.
About Gratomic Inc.
Gratomic Inc. is an advanced materials company focused on mine tomarket commercialization of graphite products most notably high value graphenebased components for a range of mass market products.
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at 10:05 AM on Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Raising $2,793,700 in working capital
39,910,000 shares issued at .07
Closes on November 24, 2017, all securities issued are subject to a statutory four month hold period.
CKR Carbon Corporation (TSXV: CKR) (FSE: CB81) (WKN: A143MR) (“CKR” or the “Company”) an integrated graphite to hybrid graphenes advanced nano material development company is pleased to announce that the offering of a non-brokered private placement announced on October 30, 2017 has been over-subscribed by $343,700 and the Company will be offering up to 39,910,000 working capital units (the “WC Unit“) for up to $2,793,700 (the “Offering“).
Each WC Unit is priced at $0.07 and consists of one (1) common share and one (1) common share purchase warrant (“WC Warrant“). Each WC Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) common share (a “WC Warrant Share“) at a price of $0.10 per WC Warrant Share until the earlier of: (i) three (3) years following the Closing of the Offering; and (ii) in the event that the closing price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange is at least $0.30 for twenty (20) consecutive trading days, and the 20th trading day (the “Final Trading Day“) is at least four (4) months from the Closing Date, the date which is thirty (30) days from the Final Trading Day.
Eligible Finders may receive up to 7% of the value of proceeds of the sale of WC Units in cash and up to 7% of the number of WC Units sold in the form of broker warrants. Each broker warrant issued in respect of the sale of WC Units entitles the holder to acquire one (1) common share of CKR at $0.07 for a period of three (3) years from the Closing of the Offering.
The Offering is expected to close on November 24, 2017. All securities issued under the Offering are subject to a statutory four month hold period.
Insiders of the Company are subscribing for 2,400,000 WC Units for $168,000. The insider private placements are exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 (“MI 61-101“) by virtue of the exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1) (a) of MI 61-101 in that the fair market value of the consideration for the securities of the Company which may be issued to the insiders does not exceed 25% of its market capitalization.
About CKR Carbon Corporation
CKR Carbon Corporation is an advanced materials company focused on mine to market commercialization of graphite products most notably high value graphene based components for a range of mass market products. We are collaborating with a leading European manufacturer of graphenes to use Aukam graphite to manufacture graphene products for commercialization on an industrial scale. The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol CKR.
For more information: visit the website at www.ckr-carbon.com or contact:
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at 9:50 AM on Thursday, September 7th, 2017
Reports up to 43.01% Carbon as Graphite from Surface Sampling
Exclusive Prospecting License (EPL) 3895 renewed for a period of two years until April 3, 2019
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – September 7, 2017) – CKR Carbon Corporation. (TSXV: CKR) (FSE: CB81) (“CKR” or the “Company”) a vertically integrated graphite to graphenes, advanced materials development company is pleased to announce that the Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy has approved the renewal of Exclusive Prospecting License (EPL) 3895 for a period of two years until April 3, 2019.
The renewed license covers an area of 27,870 hectares (278.7 square kilometres) over the historical Aukam vein graphite mine in southern Namibia. Recent work by the Company over the past two years has led to a better understanding of the quality and distribution of the graphite mineralization at Aukam. In particular exploration has demonstrated significant potential for expansion of the mineralization outside the old workings.
Recent surface sampling of graphite occurrences has resulted in assays of 1.96% Cg (carbon as graphite) to 43.01% Cg from 22 samples of disseminated graphite, vein graphite and mineralized zone (see Table below). The graphite occurrences were taken from over approximately 200m within a larger east-west zone of 500 metres of disseminated graphite. This zone broadly corresponds to a 700 metre long electromagnetic anomaly delineated earlier this year (see news release dated January 18, 2017). Sampling is ongoing to fully delineate the potential of the graphite mineralization at Aukam.
“We are pleased to receive the approval of the Minister for the renewal of the EPL and thank the Minister and his staff at the Ministry of Mines and Energy for the vote of confidence that the approval represents,” said Roger Moss, Chief Executive Officer of CKR Carbon. “We intend to aggressively move the Aukam project ahead for the benefit of our shareholders, local stakeholders and the people of Namibia.”
Summary of assay results of surface samples.
Sample ID
Sample Type
Description
Cg (%)
AK 17 DGS -001
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
4.59
AK 17 DGS -002
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
1.96
AK 17 DGS -003
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
2.94
AK 17 DGS -004
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
2.57
AK 17 DGS -005
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
5.57
AK 17 DGS -006
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
6.01
AK 17 DGS -007
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
3.87
AK 17 DGS -008
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
3.67
AK 17 DGS -009
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in medium grained granite
1.42
AK 17 DGS -010
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in medium grained granite
2.79
AK 17 DGS -011
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in medium grained granite
2.36
AK 17 DGS -012
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in medium grained granite
4.10
AK 17 DGS -013
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in medium grained granite
3.57
AK 17 DGS -014
Composite Grab
Disseminated graphite in granite
4.01
AK 17 MZS -001
2.5m Channel
Vein network/mineralized zone
9.65
AK 17 MZS -002
1.8m Channel
Vein network/mineralized zone
7.38
AK 17 MZS -003
1.7m Channel
Vein network/mineralized zone
24.05
AK 17 MZS -004
Composite Channel
Vein network/mineralized zone
10.96
AK 17 VGS -001
Composite Grab
Graphite Vein
43.01
AK 17 VGS -002
Composite Grab
Graphite Vein
33.97
AK 17 VGS -003
Composite Grab
Graphite Vein
36.06
AK 17 VGS -004
Composite Grab
Graphite Vein
20.29
Channel lengths do not represent true widths. Composite grab samples are not necessarily representative of the graphite mineralization on the property.
Samples were placed in a plastic sample bag along with a sample tag. Bags were sealed with a single use tie. All samples were securely stored prior to shipping toTEA-Lab in Swakopmund. Samples were crushed by hammer and jaw crusher to 2mm and split before milling to < 200 microns for thermo-gravimetric analysis. The company routinely submits duplicates and blanks with sample batches to monitor the quality of the assays.
The technical content of this News Release was approved by Roger Moss Ph.D., P.Geo, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About CKR Carbon Corporation
CKR Carbon Corporation is an advanced materials company focused on mine to market commercialization of graphite products most notably high value graphene based components for a range of mass market products. We are collaborating with a leading European manufacturer of graphenes to use Aukam graphite to manufacture graphene products for commercialization on an industrial scale. The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol CKR.
About the AukamProject
The Aukam property covers a past producing vein graphite deposit and associated graphite occurrences. CKR owns a 63% interest in the property and is currently undertaking technical studies to support an application for a mining license. The company maintains high safety and environmental standards and has a comprehensive strategy of social engagement.
For more information: visit the website at www.ckr-carbon.com or contact:
Roger Moss, CEO, +1 416-704-8291 E-mail inquiries: [email protected]
“Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.”
