EU decoupling from Russian oil, gas & implications for Talga, page-3

In November 2019 Talga launched a commercial-scale trial of graphene coating on a cargo vessel. The product is an on-site dispersible powder that adds graphene to paints and coatings.

In December 2019 Talga announced a second commercial scale graphene coating on a ship. Since then we have not heard any news regarding this trial.

In 2016, first samples were shipped to end users. Talga also announced a collaboration with Tata Steel UK. In the months and years that followed a huge amount of partnerships and collaborations were reported.

Most of them were so-called NDS, non-disclosure agreements. In a company presentation they described it as follows: ‘Talga has evolved into a high tech advanced materials and technology company with a unique vertically integrated graphite to graphene product supply chain.’

However, in the last two years Talga’s focus shifted again. This time the focus is a lot more on batteries. Talga started to call itself a ‘a vertically integrated producer of advanced battery anode materials and graphene additives’.

There wasn’t much news about the graphene additives anymore. Does this mean that potential customers didn’t bite on the samples? Well, this is hard to say. Talga has a lot of partnerships but for most of them we don’t know what the deal is.