Acta Share Discussion Threads

[mattjos] 29/1/2013 22:43

Still waiting for an update on the commercial relationship with Horizon:

5th Jan 2012 Electrolyser Development and Production

Acta S.p.A. (AIM: ACTA), the clean energy products company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a letter of intent (the "Letter of Intent") with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies Pte Ltd ("Horizon") for the evaluation, development and production of electrolyser systems incorporating Acta's award-winning hydrogen generating technology.

Under the terms of the commercial agreement ("Agreement") covered by the Letter of Intent, Acta has sold an EL100 electrolyser to Horizon for evaluation purposes and will support Horizon's evaluation procedures through the sale of additional AES100 electrolyser stacks and other components. These include the development of a smaller, low pressure, low cost hydrogen generator for portable fuel cell applications, which was recently completed by Acta.

Horizon is based in Singapore with commercial distribution in over 40 countries worldwide. Subject to the successful completion of the evaluation stage, expected in the first quarter of 2012, Horizon intends to incorporate Acta's hydrogen generator stacks into its own electrolyser equipment for sale to its commercial fuel cell markets. While the Agreement does not include minimum purchase volumes, Horizon has sold hundreds of thousands of consumer fuel cell products over the past five years, the majority of which are sold together with a small electrolyser device for refuelling the fuel cell.

Horizon has been producing and selling commercial fuel cell units since 2005, and is now the world's largest fuel cell producer by volume of products. The company's original product lines included science and educational fuel cell kits, small demonstrators, and fuel cell products for the toy and hobby markets. Horizon has since developed into a major commercial fuel cell system producer, selling fuel cell systems with power capacities ranging from 10W up to 30kW for the portable, stationary and automotive markets, including fuel cell back-up power systems for the telecommunications market.

Paolo Bert, Chief Executive Officer of Acta, said:

"We are very pleased to be partnering with Horizon and this exciting opportunity represents the perfect channel for Acta to address the high volume market for small hydrogen generators for consumer fuel cell products. No other system on the market offers pure, pressurised hydrogen at a cost that is comparable with ours. Horizon is a world leader in the fuel cell market and as a result, the partnership will also increase Acta's reach into the back-up power systems market, where we see significant growth opportunities in the coming years."



8th may 2012 RNS:
"Acta S.p.A. (AIM: ACTA), the clean energy products company, is delighted to announce that it has signed a Supply Agreement ("Agreement") for the exclusive supply of its core hydrogen generation components to a leading fuel cell and electrolyser manufacturer for incorporation into their electrolyser for consumer fuel cell applications.

The Agreement is conditional upon the successful completion of an initial performance validation phase, which the parties expect to complete within the next three to six months. Subject to this performance validation, Acta will be specified as the exclusive supplier of alkaline membrane electrode assembly ("MEA") components for the new electrolyser and for any other alkaline membrane-based electrolyser equipment produced by the customer for other applications. The Agreement includes pricing terms for mass volumes of up to 100,000 units per annum."

From the Interims on 27/9/12:

"Consumer Fuel Cell Applications

Acta is working with a leading fuel cell manufacturer for the development of small, low cost electrolysers to support the introduction of consumer fuel cell products (phone chargers, small electric devices, fuel cell bicycles, etc). Depending on the application, these electrolysers may range from very small desktop units up to domestic refuelling products. Success in this area would allow the introduction of a consumer hydrogen infrastructure for the first time. The Company hopes to be able to announce further details of these developments within the next four to six months."

Official news on how this is developing is a long time coming but, the Horizon website(s) is/are quite informative and detail imminent product launches that incorporate technology that sounds very similar to the ACTA offering.

Using the ACTA technology to power toys might not seem immediately exciting but, it should enable, for the first time, volume shipments of the ACTA technology & drive consumer acceptance and demand.

Horizon also has an Energy Systems divisions that supplies the unmanned aerial drone sector www.hes.sg

Looks like they could be busy on the news front for the forseeable future.

[moz8] 29/1/2013 21:51

Nice chart N3!!

[mattjos] 29/1/2013 17:36

600m2 is quite a large space .. it's not as if they are making cars .. the actual units constructed are relatively small as the integration into end user products will be done by the system integrators themselves.
An option over a further 600m2 indicates management are already thinking well ahead of 2013.
Trade-shows always good places to announce new commercial deals as well as new products to draw in new customers.
Lets see if a little more buying sees us firmly clear the 6p bid hurdle in the coming 2-3 weeks

[moz8] 29/1/2013 16:15

Lse

From one of Acta's partners and shareholder, Heliocentris have doubled sales from 2011 to 2012, there next move on their growth strategy will be back-up and off-grid power with their Telecom customers in the Middle East and that's where Acta's tech comes into its own ........... nice! Berlin, 29 January 2013 – Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG more than doubled its sales from EUR 3.3 million in 2011 to EUR 7.5 million in 2012 according to preliminary unaudited figures. This represents an increase of 127% over the previous year. The telecommunications business could be multiplied from EUR 0.3 million (2011) to EUR 4.9 million in 2012. For Heliocentris this confirms the successful entry into the telecommunications market and the scaling potential within. The Management Board expects a continuation of the strong scaling of the industrial business and thus again a significant increase in sales for 2013. "We are very pleased with the sales of approximately EUR 5 million in the industrial sector in 2012 as a first success of the realignment and focus of our industrial business on energy efficiency- and monitoring solutions for mobile base stations" said Ayed Abul-Ella, CEO of Heliocentris AG. "The satisfaction of our first customers with the cost- and CO2 emission reduction, which can be achieved with the help of our solutions, is the basis for further significant growth of our industrial business expected for 2013. Thus, both subsequent business from existing customers and the acquisition of several new customers in our target markets has been made possible. Full of confidence we look ahead to the year 2013 and look forward to continuing the commenced scaling."

[moz8] 29/1/2013 10:42

Well everything is starting to fall into place and the news of late is backing up the HB Markets research note, who were part of the Institutional Investors invited to take part in the placing ........... they were told that since April last year the average monthly growth of orders was 32% to Nov .......... If Acta can keep that growth rate up then compounded orders are going to be pretty good by the end of the year.

The research note for anyone who hasn't seen it, you need to sign up, it is free it just requires the usual email and password

https://www.hbmarkets.com/shp/cpanel.php?case=9&filter=1&vid=112

[vivgav] 29/1/2013 10:29

Yes. Markets seem to like today's news re expansion etc. Next deal should be interesting.

[moz8] 29/1/2013 10:27

Expecting more news and contracts over the coming weeks.

[moz8] 29/1/2013 09:34

Huge event though, lots of Fuel Cell and Electrolyser companies there ........... so hopefully should lead to more partners being signed up in the future

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Come and visit Acta at the FC Expo 2013 in Tokyo from Feb 27th - March 1st at booth W46-6.

[vivgav] 29/1/2013 09:02

True is 6.05/6.25

[vivgav] 29/1/2013 08:27

Chart looks better IF it can hold here (or more :-) )

[moz8] 29/1/2013 08:07

Yep!!...nice news.

[simonparker5] 29/1/2013 07:59

More than interesting tradermel, this is great news and proves that they have orders coming out their ears.

[tradermel] 29/1/2013 07:53

Interesting RNS this morning

[vivgav] 29/1/2013 07:10

RNS Number : 5298W

Acta S.p.A.

29 January 2013


Press Release 29 January 2013

Acta S.p.A.

("Acta" or "the Company")

Increase in Production Capacity

Acta S.p.A. (AIM: ACTA), the clean energy products company, is pleased to announce that it has increased its production capacity by signing an agreement for an extra 600m(2) of rented production space, adjacent to its current facility in Pisa, Italy.

Since April 2012, Acta has received an increasing number of orders (with the order rate by December 2012 being greater than Acta's current production capacity) and this has therefore created a greater need for more production space to enable the reorganisation and expansion of production processes. It is expected that this essential expansion will allow Acta to successfully fulfil its growing pipeline for product deliveries during 2013.

The Company has been increasing its staff resources in production since late 2012 and expects to continue its recruitment programme to meet customer demand. The extra production capacity will also allow the Company to reduce product delivery times and improve customer service. The reorganisation of warehousing and storage space is expected to provide an immediate benefit to production capacities and allow for further increases to above breakeven capacity levels, based on current product mix, as the new facility comes fully on stream during 2013.

An additional advantage of the new production facility contract is that it also allows for further expansion of capacity in the future. The warehouse has an additional 600m(2) production space which is available to the Company if required under an option arrangement.

Paolo Bert, Chief Executive of Acta commented: 'We are delighted with the increased and growing interest in Acta's products over the last nine months and are pleased that we have moved quickly to secure these new facilities following the completion of our recent fundraising. With the new production capacity in place we expect to be able to fulfil all our production requirements during 2013 and to meet our clients' orders within an acceptable delivery timeframe.'

- ENDS-

[mattjos] 28/1/2013 21:17

other than some PI's selling out from boredom or, to go & chase something else after perhaps locking in a gain from the last few months, the sells look to be coming from those that took on the 5p stock in the last placing but, they are not seeming to sell in any great hurry and not for less than circa a 20% gain, hence the consolidation around the 6p Bid/Offer mark that we see at present. I'm thinking it's really only this stock that will provide the liquidity, if required, once the newsflow re-established itself in the coming weeks but, the MM's will make sure that it's offered at much higher than current prices.
Assuming the +ve newsflow continues this year this source of liquidity will slowly dry up so, i see the current 5.75-6.25 range as possibly the last opportunity to acquire within a static spread.

[moz8] 28/1/2013 21:07

This will have a move up in the next few days..just a matter of time!

[mattjos] 28/1/2013 20:51

be nice to hear how things are going with Horizon ... & if HES are also involved.

[vivgav] 28/1/2013 16:48

Yes I remember that also euclid5

QFI hit 16p today.

[euclid5] 28/1/2013 15:01

this reminds me of QFI when it was stuck in the 4p-6p range for a few months until mr market woke up & realised the potential of it's MSAR fuel - not too much difference here with it's Hydrogen fuel cell electrolysers & all the fantastic commercial deals that it;s signing up - keep them down mr mm's - because if my NEW comes good i will be a large buyer here

[moz8] 28/1/2013 13:52

Sat 08:51KaChingriddler6.00No Opinion
Morning .......... Well it's going to have to break at some point!! Mr Market is not looking to the future with Acta as yet ............. I think he missed the significance of the last RNS and who the order was with! Mind you he's yet to realise the significance of the other partners!! Still mind boggling the Market Cap of CWR over the last 6 weeks or so compared to Acta's ........... and there's only one of them making a mark on the sales front at present!

[mattjos] 28/1/2013 11:13

thankfully this not mentioned :-). The rest will no doubt all have been marked up today in advance of this chap tipping them all