21 Aug 2017 07:00
21 August 2017
Verditek PLC
("Verditek" or the "Company")
Trial Contract with Media One
Verditek plc, (AIM: VDTK), the clean technology company, announces that its 51% owned subsidiary, Greenflex Energy Limited ("Greenflex"), an Italian based manufacturing solar photovoltaic ("PV") technology company, has won an initial trial contract with Media One s.r.l. ("Media One"), one of Italy's largest out of home advertising agencies, to supply and install its proprietary solar PV technology to power digital advertising billboards at outdoor bus shelters in Italy.
The trial contract, which was won in a competitive tender process, will see the Company supply and install its solar PV technology at a bus shelter in the province of Rimini, Italy, in September 2017. Once successfully completed, the trial is expected to extend to supply the Company's solar PV material for approximately 20 further bus shelters along the Rimini-Riccione bus line in Italy, targeted for October 2017. On successful completion of the initial project, there is a significant opportunity for Verditek, through Greenflex, to supply the Company's solar PV building material for an additional approximately 100 outdoor bus shelters in the area.
The potential market within Italy's digital out of home advertising is significant with Media One alone operating over 5,000 digital advertising billboards across the country.
Verditek's solar PV technology has significant product innovations compared to competing technologies including interconnectivity of individual PV cells, lightness and its unique flexible design integrates the material into the design of the bus shelter offering a greater level of security and architectural integrity.
Verditek's CEO, Theo Chapman, said:
"We are delighted to have won this initial trial contract order with Media One, which we believe underpins our solar PV technology as a best in class solution for solar power generation for multiple industries.
"One of the main cost constraints in the rapid roll out of digital advertising boards across Italy is the high cost of connection to grid power. We believe our solar PV technology offers a highly efficient and cost-effective solution to powering these boards, allowing them to be independent of Italy's national electricity transmission grid.
"We also believe this opportunity paves the way for us to examine the potential to supply independent solar power units to the digital billboard market in other countries that face the same interconnectivity issues as Italy.
"We look forward to completing this initial trial for bus shelters in Rimini. If successful, this initial trial contract may lead to a larger-scale order to supply and install our proprietary solar PV material for a further c.100 bus shelters, which would see a meaningful order-book established for Greenflex and further revenue generation established for the Company. We look forward to updating the market accordingly."
Enquiries:
Verditek plc
Geoffrey Nesbitt (Non-Executive Chairman) Theodore Chapman (Chief Executive Officer) |
+44 (0) 20 7129 1110 enquiries@verditek.plc.uk
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Stockdale Securities Limited (NOMAD and Broker) | |
Antonio Bossi David Coaten | +44 (0) 20 7601 6100
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Yellow Jersey PR (PR & IR) Felicity Winkles Harriet Jackson Henry Wilkinson |
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About Verditek plc
AIM listed Verditek plc is a holding company with three businesses operating within the clean technology sector. The Company has a unique liquid gas absorption technology expected to revolutionise the global CO2 capture industry; two solar manufacturing production lines in San Marino each of 25MWp (total 50MWp) producing what is believed to be an innovative and un-paralleled solar PV building material; and a pioneering filtration deodorisation technology, which is commercially proven and tackles a wide range of odours within air and water at a high efficiency.
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