ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces Grand Opening of Guelph Facility
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 4, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the grand opening of its Guelph facility for small scale pilot plant production and Research and Development. James Jordan will be leading the work at the facility and is promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer. In other company human resource review, Colin van der Kuur is now our Head of Research while Monique Manaigre becomes our...
2020-02-04 8:00 AM EST
ZEN Graphene Solutions Provides Corporate Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 20, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") has closed its previously announced private placement of flow-through common shares of the company and reports that it was oversubscribed. The company raised $1.21-million in respect of the offering, which will be used to finance the 2020 environmental baseline field program and community engagement work on the company's Albany graphite project. The offering consisted...
2019-12-20 8:00 AM EST
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces Offering of Flow-Through Shares
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 10, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") announces that subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance, it has arranged an offering of flow-through common shares of the company on a non-brokered private placement basis. The offering comprises up to 2.5 million flow-through common shares of the company at a price of 40 cents per flow-through common share for gross proceeds of up to $1-million. The proceeds from...
2019-12-10 8:00 AM EST
ZEN Graphene Solutions Reports on Multiple Intellectual Property Licensing Agreements
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV:ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") has signed the definitive graphene manufacturing process License Agreement referred to in a news release on May 30, 2019. This agreement licenses to ZEN the intellectual property created by scientists and laboratories within a renowned Canadian University. This agreement has no expiry date and provides that a royalty is payable by ZEN based on the annual amount of...
2019-11-14 8:00 AM EST
ZEN Graphene Solutions Reports Preliminary Results for Graphene Aerogel Battery Tests
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 1, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") and its research partner, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt ("DLR", the German Aerospace Center) are pleased to report on additional encouraging results from their battery development program led by Dr. Lukas Bichler and his team at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (UBC-O). UBC-O has created a Graphene Aerogel composite anode material using a...
2019-11-01 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces Encouraging Aluminum Metal Composite and Coating Results Using ZEN Graphene Material
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 1, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additional research and development results using a ZEN Graphene additive in a sintered aluminium metal composite and ZEN Graphene in a corrosion-inhibiting coating. The Company very recently received additional encouraging preliminary results from the University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBC-O) which has used ZEN's Graphene to enhance the...
2019-10-01 8:14 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Corporate Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 27, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to report on its recent activities including work on a novel electrochemical process for the production of 1-2 layer graphene oxide, graphite material processing and inventory plus encouraging preliminary results using reduced graphene oxide as a grain refinement additive for aluminum casting. The company is also pleased to announce that Mr. Greg Fenton has...
2019-09-27 7:29 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Signs Agreement with Chemisar Laboratories Inc. for Consulting and New Graphene Development Facility
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 16, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Chemisar Laboratories Inc. ("Chemisar") to provide various consulting services which will include the use of 2,300 square feet of office and laboratory space in Guelph, Ontario commencing on October 1, 2019. This office will become the company's new graphene research and development centre which will include...
2019-09-16 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement of Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 3, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("Zen Graphene" or the "Company") announces that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement financing to raise approximately $1.0 million (the "Offering") subject to regulatory approval. The Offering will consist of the sale of Units priced at $0.35 per Unit. Each Unit will be comprised of one Common Share and one-half of one non-transferable Common Share purchase warrant (a "Warrant")....
2019-09-03 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Provides Grant Program and Environmental Baseline Study Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 8, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. ("ZEN" or the "Company") (TSXV:ZEN) is pleased to provide an update on recent activities including the $1,000,000 reimbursement grant for graphene-Infused concrete applications research and progress on the environmental baseline study fieldwork. ZEN recently received a $290,192.72 reimbursement payment for the eligible expenses during the quarter ended June 30th 2019. This payment is the first installment of...
2019-08-08 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. Announces Option Grants
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 17, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") announces that it has made a grant of stock options under its stock option plan to certain of its directors and officers to acquire a total of 1,100,000 common shares of the Company. In addition, the Company has granted options to acquire an aggregat
2019-07-17 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Signs Three Year Graphene Research Agreement with University of British Columbia
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 10, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan Campus, School of Engineering, where ZEN will contribute a minimum of $300,000 over three years in support of graphene research and application development. Under the MOU, UBC and ZEN will collaborate on graphene-focused research projects...
2019-06-10 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Signs Agreement on Novel, Low Cost, High-Yield Graphene Production Process
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 30, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed an initial agreement to in-license certain intellectual properties from a Canadian University that when combined with ZEN's Albany Graphite, produces low cost, environmentally friendly graphene. The production process rapidly exfoliates Albany Graphite into few layer graphene (FLG, 2-5 layers) with a conversion efficiency of over...
2019-05-30 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Awarded $1,000,000 Grant for Graphene-Infused Concrete Applications Research
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 8, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant that will accelerate ZEN's graphene-enhanced concrete research and development project. The grant will potentially help the Company achieve its goal to provide innovative cement-based composite products to the Ontario market by possibly early 2020. The grantor will reimburse 50% up to a maximum of $1,000,000 spent...
2019-05-08 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Announces Commencement of Environmental Baseline Studies on Albany Graphite Project
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 25, 2019) - Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has commenced work on the environmental baseline studies to support the development of the Albany Graphite Project (the "Project"). Material from the unique Albany Graphite Project will potentially serve as precursor graphene material for anticipated futu
2019-04-25 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Reports a 324% Increase in Anode Discharge Capacity in Preliminary Battery Testing Results
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 11, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") and its research partners, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, The German Aerospace Center ("DLR") and Kal Tire are pleased to report on their preliminary battery development results at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, performed by Dr. Lukas Bichler and his team. Initial results showed that the addition of 5% ZEN reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO)...
2019-04-11 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Signs MOU with The University of Manchester on Graphene Development and Commercialization Collaboration Opportunities
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 4, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with The University of Manchester ("Manchester") in the UK. The purpose of the MOU is to explore opportunities of collaboration in the areas of development and commercialization of graphene and other 2D materials and accelerate the adoption of these materials into commercially viable markets. Ma
2019-04-04 7:50 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Corporate Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 2, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Dr. Francis Dubé will take over the role of Chief Executive Officer. The Company also announces the resignation of Mr. Donald Bubar as Co-Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Bubar will continue to support the Company as a member of ZEN's Advisory Board. Mr. Greg Fenton, Director, comments: "We are pleased to...
2019-04-02 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Concludes 2019 Albany Winter Drilling Program
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 22, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or "Company") announces that its winter drilling program on the Albany Graphite Project has concluded with two large diameter holes totalling 263 metres having been completed. These two holes yielded over 110 tonnes of Albany Graphite material, sufficient material to produce several tonnes of purified graphite to be used as pre-cursor graphene material for graphene applications testing....
2019-03-22 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Successfully Tests Industrially Viable Purification Process for Pre-cursor Albany graphene material
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 20, 2019) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or "Company") is pleased to provide an update on the Company's recent metallurgical test program which successfully simulated an industrial process which was utilized to purify Albany Graphite concentrate. This successful test is a significant step forward towards industrial graphene production. A final product purity of approximately 99.8% Cg appears to be the practical upper limit of...
2019-03-20 8:00 AM EDT