hayd27 Mar 2019 14:56
Recent deals put firm in good stead for the year
Haydale Graphene will be kept busy in 2019 after securing a raft of new deals.
It was recently chosen to help develop a high performance kit for British athletes training for the 2020 Olympic Games. The English Institute of Sport will use Haydale and its long-term partner the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University to incorporate graphene coatings into a range of clothing for elite performers.
The company has also secured a SiC contract extension with an existing cutting tool customer, which it said provides more sales visibility for the US business.
In the UK, Haydale Graphene is a core tier one partner to the new £60mln Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) at the University of Manchester, where the group will install and showcase one of its HT60 plasma reactors. The facility is due to open in December.
Elsewhere, the firm is eyeing big opportunities in the drone market after supplying enhanced prepreg material for the world’s first graphene skinned aircraft.