Versarien Share Discussion Threads

[20pc] 02/8/2018 07:03

Sporting Goods Collaboration

Versarien plc (AIM: VRS), the advanced materials engineering group, is pleased to announce that it has signed a collaboration with a prominent global sports and fashion goods manufacturer.

The collaboration will see both parties working on a number of projects involving the incorporation of Versarien's proprietary Nanene few layer graphene nano-platelets into polymer, leather, elastomer and textile structures. In particular, the collaboration will aim to provide improved footwear and textile solutions aimed at the amateur and professional football sector, where the Company's partner has a global presence, with sponsorship of British, European and international top flight professional football clubs.



Versarien and this collaboration partner, which has multiple manufacturing plants globally, will examine a number of formulations comprising existing materials with graphene loading to assess the feasibility of these nanocomposites to provide improvements in footwear and textile applications. The key potential benefits of the use of graphene in these products is the increased performance of moisture barriers, increased material strength, weight reduction and improved thermal conductivity.



Neill Ricketts, CEO of Versarien, commented: "We are very pleased to have entered into this latest graphene application collaboration agreement, the fourteenth such agreement since October last year. In entering into these collaborations we are looking to engage with a wide variety of sectors where the incorporation of graphene into existing materials can have a significant benefit.

"The sports goods sector is fast moving and very open to the rapid adoption of new technologies. It is therefore a sector of significant focus for Versarien to enable a near term route to market for our high quality graphene. In entering into this collaboration with a globally renowned name in the football kit sector we are again ensuring we are developing a partnership with a leading company in its field.

"I look forward to providing further updates on our existing collaborations and announcing others that are currently in discussion."

[grabster] 02/8/2018 06:59

Who says they haven't? They wouldn't need huge amounts big enough to announce to market.. and wouldn't necessarily buy in their own name (eg, could go via NTPT - ) (one of the channels that joe public - and joe analyst - are mostly unaware of)

[davemac3] 02/8/2018 06:44

Why haven't McLaren been back for more Nanene?

[1teepee] 02/8/2018 05:08

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTzntFw-EgU

[turbocharge] 02/8/2018 00:15

grabster, I think you are spot on, I don't think I was paying attention when I read it; accordingly, I stand corrected.

[festario] 02/8/2018 00:08

Skylite, all good stuff, I agree... I like the cider and cheese bit too.I believe also that Mr Rickett's integrity will extend as far as NOT tweeting sensitive clues prior to RNS's.Those who disagree and obsess about it can feel free to apologise to me at 7.01am when there is no RNS.However, I very much hope, there IS!

[skyliteandy] 01/8/2018 23:11

I like NR tweeting Fest. You and I have no idea about some things, we can only guess. I live in Cheltenham, I know where the HQ is, I drive past enough to know when he's in, I know the Forest and people from there and I get even more of a feeling about his integrity from his tweets - I've also met him. The more I look at his tweets the more I feel he's the genuine article; if he's a fraud then he's the biggest one since Sir Dave Brailfraud. And this is the clincher, he's a rugby prop forward from the Forest - if you aren't enlightened by that statement allow me. He'd never ever be able to show his face around there again, it's close (as in dukes of hazard close), he lives there, plays rugby there, his kids go to school there - he is 100 cement straight up.

It may take a little longer that we want but it will happen.

Apologies - cider and cheese night down the Set, this took me about 20 minutes to type.

Night night.

[dmorty87] 01/8/2018 23:05

Share holders are always going to be biased for a company they own shares in that's just routein for your own team, however i dont mind other oposite views as long as there is some kind of logic to that opinion.

[luckyorange] 01/8/2018 22:55

I get that john, just wanted to challenge the fallacy that long term shareholders ignore any downside which appears to be their main argument.

[johnveals] 01/8/2018 22:52

luckyorange - I don't think anyone has a problem with a balanced discussion the issue is that they always take a fact, such as NR buying a car or a former director selling some shares, and twist it in order to paint NR and Versarien in the worst possible light whilst ignoring the wider context. They know what they are doing and why they are doing it and it is to undermine the share price, nothing more and nothing less, for their own short-term gain.

[wr63] 01/8/2018 22:21

Fest, Neill posted a picture of his bear foot a day or two before the Vibrobarefoot RNS. I saw the Arrow tweet as well, I do think that was a mistake though as he deleted it quickly.

[luckyorange] 01/8/2018 22:18

tmoon, you may be right on that , seems like a reasonable assumption.

[a_game] 01/8/2018 22:05

lucky, Jak does not want to discuss, he has a short agenda. Take a look:

Pretty sure same person, popped up on twitter & here at the same time. He's a shorter/troll. Beware people!

[tmoon] 01/8/2018 21:53

I wonder if the "it's coming home" tweet refers to the new scale up to 3 ton machine being delivered shortly?

[festario] 01/8/2018 21:53

State the nature of this leak? I genuinely do not see it.And, if that's all you've got from a year's Twitter obsession, then you really have been wasting your time.Incidentally, I live ON a rock, not beneath one, but you were close!

[luckyorange] 01/8/2018 21:39

Not b/s a_game, Jak wanted to discuss it, although it does appear to be a one sided discussion at the moment I'm sure he will agree that he misunderstood the situation.

[andymoore07] 01/8/2018 21:37

There's was to be fair, I saw it too

[a_game] 01/8/2018 21:29

Fest - can't argue with that! And yes, AGT did 'leak', have you been living under a rock?

JakNife - yes actually, why don't you go and ask Wyedean School. He's funding a new lab to be built there. If you follow his tweets carefully, the Tesla is on finance, like his Aston. Even if it wasn't, it doesn't cost £400k+. So, whilst we're at it, what other bs do you want to come out with?

[luckyorange] 01/8/2018 21:23

Oh mustn't forget what the funds were also used for 'The funds are being used for specific reasons, I am setting up a trust to roll out a hopefully pan European stem graphene program'

It was a good question though, is the Tesla used as a vehicle for work? Less expensive than the internal combustion engine I would think over a period of time so we don't know if it is a company vehicle?

[fhasson] 01/8/2018 21:14

https://twitter.com/neillricketts/status/1024721074725048321?s=21Fanciful I accept but could it be a Dyson collaboration regarding EV carbon batteries? Dyson factory just down the road. It's coming home?