RE: Major Investor buys more shares of VRS20 Nov 2024 07:55
Versarien plc the advanced materials engineering group, is pleased to announce that the Company has been awarded a legally binding £5 million loan facility ("the Loan") by Innovate UK Loans Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UK Research and Innovation.
Innovate UK has been running an extended pilot innovation loans programme over the past three years with £75 million committed to the scheme with normal loan amounts of up to £1million. The innovation loans are targeted at UK small or medium-sized enterprises (SME) that want to scale up and grow by developing new or improved products, processes or services, as well as late-stage research and development projects that have not yet reached the point of commercialisation.
The UK Government, via Innovate UK, has agreed to the provision of the £5 million Loan to Versarien, the first of such magnitude by Innovate UK specifically for a project named G SCALE, (an acronym for Graphene-Seat, Concrete, Arch, Leisure, Elastomer) which is designed to enable Versarien to significantly increase its manufacture of quality assured graphene.
The award of the loan, which occurred on 1 July 2020, follows a rigorous process of innovation assessment and is intended to facilitate the production of sufficient quantities of graphene by Versarien to enable market supply of commercial quantities of graphene-enhanced materials.
*****Loan repayments will commence 45 months after drawdown and be paid over a subsequent period of 36 months. The Loan attracts at an interest rate of 7.4%per annum *******
with half of the interest deferred until the repayment period commences. The loan includes normal commercial financial covenants, together with certain operational covenants designed for UK IP protection.
Hmmmm it does read like the repayments for the 5 million plus interest are due from next February 2025!
Could be negotiated I guess!!
Where did the cash go!!!
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