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Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) announced that it’s been accepted as an associate member of the Graphene Flagship via its subsidiary, Talga Advanced Materials GmbH.
Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) announced that it’s been accepted as an associate member of the Graphene Flagship via its subsidiary, Talga Advanced Materials GmbH. The EU-founded Graphene Flagship has a budget of 1 billion euros, and is the world’s largest graphene research platform.
As quoted in the press release:
The appointment of Talga as one of three new associate members was announced at the Flagship 2015 General Assembly in Berlin, alongside multinational engineering and electronics giant Robert Bosch GmbH and toy manufacturer The LEGO Group.
Mark Thompson, managing director of Talga, commented:
We are delighted to be involved with the Flagship which is the world’s most significant graphene development project. With €1 billion of funding and over 141 members across 23 countries, the Flagship is a very significant organisation. Talga will now have a deeper reach into an enormous pool of best in class graphene industry participants.
The membership underlines the importance of Talga’s potential to remove the barriers to large scale graphene production and enable global commercial uptake. In addition, it supports Talga’s strategy of setting up a European production hub, aligning it with major industry participants and tailoring production to meet growing commercial needs.
In recent times new world minerals for tomorrows economy have become the focus of much discussion by growth investors. We aim to become a globally significant supplier of these minerals from what is a first class mining jurisdiction in Sweden. Sweden’s role in coordinating the consortium highlights the innovative culture in the country that hosts our projects.
Click here to read the full Talga Resources Ltd. (ASX:TLG) press release.