Versarien Regulatory News (VRS)

Versarien plc

("Versarien" or the "Company")

Notification of Shareholding

Versarien plc (AIM: VRS), the advanced engineering materials group, is pleased to announce that the Company was informed on 18 February 2014 that Henderson Global Investors has purchased 14,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company representing 16.85% of the issued share capital of the Company. Henderson now holds 21,774,567 ordinary shares representing 26.21% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Commenting on the share purchase, Neill Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer of Versarien plc, said: "Henderson Global Investors are one of the UK's best recognised fund managers and increasing their already significant stake in Versarien demonstrates their commitment and shared vision in the potential of the Company. We look forward to continuing to work with them, and our other institutional and private investors, in the future."

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Versarien develops advanced micro-porous metals for thermal management. The open celled metallic foams produced by the Group at its manufacturing factory in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, are 'biomimetic' - that is they mimic the sponge like structures of biological materials, e.g. bone and coral.

Versarien's porous metals have an exceptionally high surface area relative to volume which means they are ideally suited to any function where surface area is important, for example heat transfer, heat exchange, catalysis and energy storage. Versarien is initially targeting the thermal management industry due to the material's superb heat transfer properties. The thermal management market is expected to reach US$S11.1 billion during 2013 (Source: BCC Research).

The Group's lead product is VersarienCu, a micro-porous copper. When incorporated into liquid cooling systems, VersarienCu can improve efficiency by up to ten times. Versarien's key market is cooling systems for central processing units (CPUs), hardware that is found in high performance workstations (engineering, science, CGI, animation), computer clusters, supercomputing infrastructure and data centres. VersarienCu can be retrofitted into 'cold plates' within existing infrastructure and the Group also intends to produce complete cooling systems containing VersarienCu.