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Haydale announced a new 230 m² dedicated manufacturing area at its South Wales, UK facility to keep up with rapidly growing demand for these ground breaking materials.

Haydale graphene inks are manufactured using plasma functionalised HDPlas® Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNPs) to deliver performance benefits including: metal-free, electrical conductivity, flexibility, and durability. Haydale graphene ink is formulated to be ready-to-use and can also be customized for individual applications. Their patented HDPlas® plasma process allows Haydale to use with a range of different raw graphene materials and to add the chemical functionalisation to meet desired performance for a wide range of specific applications.

Haydale reported their financial results for H2 2014 - with revenues rising to £480,000 million (up from £60,000 in H1 2014, but this includes £360,000 generated by EPL). Loss before tas was £1.57 million (up from £580,000 in Hq 2014). In the beginning of 2015, Haydale had £3.95 million in cash.

During the past six months, Haydale increased their production capacity with two more R&D plasma reactors, signed a commercial collaboration with Alex Thomson Racing to develop graphene-enhanced composite solutions for racing boats, and signed a 5-year exclusive commercial agreement with Swansea University. EPL (acquired by Haydale in November 2014) was awarded £261,000 to test graphene-enhanced composite for oil & gas pipes.

Haydale has recently ordered an additional significantly larger reactor, the HD200, to fulfill anticipated increased customer orders following successful sampling and supply from the smaller units.

The company also said that it has ordered a further three Rotovac HD60 units for delivery by the end of June and that the two new reactors delivered in December 2014 have become operational.

Haydale announced its intention to enter a collaborative agreement with Alex Thomson Racing the HUGO BOSS sponsored extreme sailing team. Haydale, through its newly acquired subsidiary EPL Composite Solutions Limited, will work with ATR to incorporate graphene enhanced materials in their Research and Development program to improve overall strength and stiffness of a number of key structures within the ATR boat. Through incorporating new graphene enhanced materials in their future boat designs - ATR are seeking to keep their vessel light to ensure optimum speed without compromising on strength.

The initial work will include an immediate review to ascertain weight saving opportunities. In particular the parties are keen to make use of the recent work done by Haydale in adding their functionalised HDPlas® Graphene Nano Platelets (GNPs) into both Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic ("CFRP") and epoxy resins.

Haydale announced it has entered into a 5 year exclusive pipeline agreement with Swansea University and Swansea Innovations.

The agreement stipulates that Swansea will carry out a series of internally funded research projects to produce prototype applications using a range of Haydale materials. These materials can be the functionalised Haydale Graphene Nano Platelets (GNPs), and the Haydale conductive and insulating inks formulated by its collaboration partner the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC).

Haydale announced the arrival of two new Rotovac plasma reactors, designed in collaboration with Haydale and built by Tantec. 

The new plasma reactors are meant to increase the company's capacity and operational flexibility to meet increased graphene production needs. Haydale reports that commissioning has already begun and the reactors should be fully operational in January 2015.

The British Haydale, the Company focused on enabling technology for the commercialization of graphene, announced that its subsidiary EPL received a £261,000 Regional Growth Fund (RGF) grant by the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP).

The grant will be provided in the first quarter of 2015, and is aimed at part-financing EPL's testing of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite pipes towards commercialization of the product process in the US oil and gas industry. EPL and Haydale are working to incorporate graphene into the thermoplastic composite pipes to enhance oil and gas permeation resistance of these materials as well as increasing the materials' long term durability performance.

Haydale, the UK based company focused on the commercialization of graphene and other nanomaterials, declared its partnership in BIOGRAPHY, an EU funded project (through M-ERA.Net). 

Haydale's proprietary HDPlas graphene-based conductive inks will be used to establish a cost-effective mass production process for graphene-based biosensors, which are predicted to have a major influence on developing healthcare and environmental applications. 

The UK based Haydale and The School of Engineering at Cardiff University have announced the results of a new research that shows improvements in the mechanical performance of carbon fibre composites.

The research tested graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) and carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced technology. The results of this research show a 13% increase in compression strength and a 50% increase in compression after impact performance, indicating that fracture mode has been positively influenced. This is significant because damage resistance and compression properties are extremely important in high performance structures, such as composite aircraft wings.

Haydale recently announced the forming of an agreement to acquire EPL Composite Solutions. The two companies have already collaborated in the past on several projects and this acquisition is meant to maximize EPL’s access to the nano-composites market and potentially boost Haydale’s sales.

The acquisition of EPL is a major step towards monetizing Haydale’s technology for incorporating graphene and other nano-enhancing fillers into composites. The introduction of nanofillers to EPL’s product range will produce the added benefits of impermeable barriers, conductivity and reduced weight with improved strength and stiffness. These benefits are capable of impacting the development of future composite structures. According to market researches, an $80m market for nano-enhanced composites is predicted by 2018, of which graphene functionalization promises to generate significant parts.