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New investor presentation uploaded. Let's go for it and get the reactors installed.

Agree. Very long on promise and short on delivery. Greedy venture capitalists including Chris listing the business far too soon and we all pay the price. Mining is a capital intensive business and they underestimated the challenge of marketing the product as well as misleading the market. AGM will be fun. Vote this lot of crooks out

New investor presentation uploaded on the Hardide website following the growth and innovation event.

Hopefully they attract some more buyers

New Year sale time. Per Bloomberg Finncap increased their target price to 2.2p and forecast £100k of positive EBITDA for 2019.

There is a much improved presentation on the Hardide website. Looks a great business from 2016 which is when they built the US factory. Vindicates that decision.

Interview positive tone with aerospace production orders soon and planning for new facilities/capacity in the UK. I hope 2019 will be the year with positive EBITDA and continued rapid growth in sales. Appreciate this has not has developed as quickly as we all hoped but looks to have reached an inflection point. The challenge as always understanding how big this can get and how quickly. Well done to management and employees who have steered Hardide to this point over last 5 years.

Agree. Very positive tone.

Currently in the US on work. Met with experienced drilling contractors. Mood positive. After several years of low rig utilisation everything on the up and rates are increasing. Business generally very positive with companies investing and wages rising. Sentiment very different from the propaganda we are provided through the media outlets - at least on the economy things looks to be very positive. Will have to wait and see what impact trade tariffs are having and whether global macro sentiment improves.

With Hardide having good exposure to the US, I hope this translates into more sales and customer conversions for Hardide. The strong dollar also a good result for Hardide. Not long to go to the interims.

A month to go to year end results. Would be great if some new major orders/customers are announced. Also an update on Airbus. I am less worried about the day to day share price movements if the underlying business is growing profitably and there is no need for more equity to keep the lights on (raising equity to fund growth as bad). Management incentivised to get Hardide to a break even EBITDA in 2019 and also get share price North of 2.5p. A long frustrating wait and the mistake was listing Hardide far too early. Having said that I really hope we are at an inflection point when growth starts to accelerate and all reports to the bottom line.

Would be good to see some Director buying once the Blackout period with results is over. Nothing like management and directors putting their money where their mouth is!

Also the management option package vesting criteria is for Hardide to be EBITDA positive by financial year 2019 and share price to reach 2.5p. Let's hope 2019 is the year shareholders and management get richer.

Copied comment from the May 2018 interims, "The Board remains confident in its expectation of gaining significant aerospace business in the near future".

That was four months ago. I am sure everyone will have a different definition of near future but as the current financial year is about to end I hope that financial year 2019 will be the inflection point.

Important the company continues to communicate with the shareholders. Revenue up 40% in twelve months is great news. This has been quite a turn around relative to several years ago and vindicates the decision to expand in the US.

Thank you for your posts. I appreciate everyone has been waiting for a long time but really sense the inflection point not for away and hopefully 2019 the year the company gets Airbus revenue and can start to put some very large bookends around the size of the prize. Key for me is having the 2x large patient investors on the register, strong balance sheet, almost breakeven and a management team who have done a great job over the last 5 years. Onwards and upwards

The problem with Reach is companies outsource hard chrome coating to jurisdictions such as China and India. However in my opinion this is a transitional phase as regulations are catching up quickly in China. Also not generally a good idea for big companies to circumvent rules when Hardide is a genuine alternative. I view Hardide as a very valuable option which is close to generating positive cash flows so we can afford to wait until gravity catches up and forces conversion of significant revenue to Hardide. It has been a frustrating long wait so would be great to see we are getting close to the inflection point!

It has now been a year since the Reach regulations banning use of hard chrome came into effect. I was hoping this would be a catalyst for more revenue as option of Hvof does not coat complex shapes or internal services. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Would be great if the company can provide guidance on this.

Great news. All moving in the right direction.

Refer to the Progressive research note on 17th Sept 2017 on the Hardide website. On page 19 there is an estimate of the coatings market at £20bn a year. This includes all forms of coatings not just hard chrome. The market cap of companies such as Praxair, Bodycote, Oerlikon all well into the billions provide me confidence on likely exit route for Hardide. Agree the company should do a better job of explaining the size of the prize. What is clear is Hardide not a commodity like Hvof and margins of Hardide demonstrate its performance and unique offering to end users. I am hopeful Hardide will be worth a multiple of market cap before an exit. An update on US and aerospace progress always welcome.

Link to new video in aerospace and website includes a strapline of key customers. These are high profile groups which validate the technology. Exciting future ahead. My opinion a question of when and not if.