Gratomic, Perpetuus In JV To Provide Modified Graphenes

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Bernama) -- Gratomic Inc. and Perpetuus Carbon Technologies Ltd have agreed to enter into negotiations on a joint venture agreement. The agreement is to build on Perpetuus´ current capability to initially provide 500 tonnes of surfaced modified graphenes per annum to the tyre manufacturing industry. Gratomic´s executive chairman and co-chief executive officer, Sheldon Inwentash said junior graphite miners and the graphene industry as a whole had spent the last 10 years seeking to identify the ‘Killer App´ for graphenes. "We are therefore very pleased to announce that based on the technical information derived from laboratory and ‘real world´ testing received from our Letter of Intent (LOI) partner Perpetuus, we are mutually confident of our success in identifying an application that will prove an industry game changer. "Graphite-derived graphenes will be produced in industrial quantities to satisfy the needs of a market sector that will consume thousands of tonnes of engineered-for-purpose graphenes to meet the projected market demand, " he added. Gratomic has engaged with Perpetuus in a development programme for the purpose of completing a study that would determine the optimum method to produce Graphene Nano Platelets (GNPs) from mined graphite provided by Gratomic. It is also to employ the GNPs derived from the graphite as a material-enhancing component for mass market commercial exploitation. The company had executed a LOI with Perpetuus in August 2017 to produce viable GNP-enhanced tyres, establishing that Aukam Graphite-derived GNPs were suitable for the tyre industry, and could be produced by liberating surface-modified flakes of nano-graphite, via the PCT patented plasma processing technology. -- BERNAMA