Haydale Plc Regulatory News (HAYD)

Haydale Graphene Industries plc ("Haydale" or the "Company") Consulting Agreement with The InVentures Group Haydale Graphene Industries plc (AIM:HAYD), the Company focused on enablingtechnology for the commercialisation of graphene and other nano materials, ispleased to announce a consulting agreement with New York based The InVenturesGroup ("InVentures") ("Agreement") to accelerate the commercial application ofits plasma functionalisation technology in graphene, carbon nanotubes and otherhigh performance nanomaterial systems. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, a retainer will be paid by Haydale overan initial 12 month period, during which time InVentures will promote Haydale'splasma functionalisation technology to potential R&D customers and commercialpartners in Haydale's target markets of inks and coatings, composites andenergy harvesting. Further, InVentures will identify and prioritise areas ofapplication for Haydale's plasma based functionalisation technology and seek toengage high profile organisations as potential strategic partners, customersand/or licensees. A warrant agreement has been signed between the Company and InVentures whichgrants InVentures up to 60,000 warrants to subscribe for ordinary shares of £0.02p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an exercise price of £1.60subject to the satisfaction of certain vesting conditions relating to therevenues generated by InVentures for the Company in the period to 30 June 2015.These warrants have an exercise period beginning on 1 July 2015 and ending on30 June 2018. The total number of options and warrants now outstanding over Ordinary Sharesis 1,021,215 representing 9.1% per cent. of the Company's ordinary issued sharecapital. Ray Gibbs, CEO at Haydale, commented: "Haydale's goal is to be the premiersolutions provider in enabling commercialisation of certain nano materials suchas graphenes. Our novel functionalisation process enables the nano particles tobe uniformly dispersed in a target material. In our view, dispersion is the keyto commercialising materials like graphenes and recent third party resultsdemonstrate that our technology works well. This Agreement will enable Haydaleto increase significantly its market presence in North America and Canada. Weexpect this Agreement to allow a greater number of potential R&D customers totest and analyse our plasma functionalised materials for integration into theirspecific products and applications." "We are excited to be working with the outstanding team at InVentures, most ofwhom have spent their careers developing, scaling, and commercialising advancedmaterials and understand the challenges and opportunities. Their reputation,relationships, and network of partners and customers combined with theirexperience in overcoming the hurdles that face companies introducing newmaterials into established markets is expected to serve Haydale well as we lookto expand the impact of our technology onto the global market." Keith Blakely, Chairman and CEO of InVentures, commented: "Graphene isunquestionably one of the most exciting material discoveries so far thiscentury and has astounding intrinsic properties including incredible strength,the highest thermal and electrical conductivity known, and othercharacteristics that have the potential to impact nearly every industry. We arevery excited to be working with Haydale to accelerate the process ofidentifying specifically in the North American and Canadian markets the mostpromising applications of their technology and materials in commercialapplications." - ends - For further information please contact: Haydale Graphene Industries plc 01269 842 946John Knowles, ChairmanRay Gibbs, Chief Executive Officer Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nomad) 0207 148 7900Tony RawlinsonPaul Trendell Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Joint Broker) 020 7894 7000David ForemanPaul Jewell Hume Capital Securities plc (Joint Broker) 020 3693 1470Guy PetersDavid Lawman Hermes Financial PRTrevor Phillips 07889 153 628Chris Steele 07979 604 687 About Haydale Haydale has developed a patent pending proprietary scalable plasma process tofunctionalise graphene and other nanomaterials. This enabling technology canprovide Haydale with a rapid and highly cost efficient method of supplyingtailored solutions to enhance applications for both raw material suppliers andproduct manufacturers. Functionalisation is carried out through a low pressure plasma process thattreats both organic mined fine powder and other synthetically producednanomaterial powders producing high quality few layered graphenes and graphenenano platelets. The process can functionalise with a range of chemical groups,where the amount of chemicals can be tailored to the customer needs. Gooddispersion improves the properties and performance of the host material andensures it delivers as specified. The Haydale plasma process does not use wet chemistry, neither does it damagethe material being processed, rather it can clean up impurities inherent in theraw material. The technology is a low energy user and most importantlyenvironmentally friendly. The Haydale method is an enabling technology whereworking with a raw material producer can add value to the base product andtailor the outputs to meet the target applications of the end user. Haydale, based in South Wales, housed in a purpose built facility forprocessing and handling nanomaterials with a laboratory facility, isfacilitating the application of graphenes and other nanomaterials in fieldssuch as inks, sensors, energy storage, photovoltaics, composites, paints andcoatings. www.haydale.com About The InVentures Group The InVentures Group delivers strategic forward thinking and mentoring tostart-up and established companies. They specialise in high technologycompanies, products and services with an emphasis on assisting in the complexand highly challenging task of bringing new product ideas and technology tomarket. InVentures are specialists in bringing new technologies to the NorthAmerican market and instrumental in the formation of the Graphene StakeholdersAssociation (GSA) in 2012,

For more information, visit www.theinventuresgroup.com