ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd., Thunder Bay, ON

Graphene material is an emerging market opportunity with so many exciting applications. The challenge for a new, high quality Graphene material supplier like ZEN is to define the priority market segments offering the best value creation potential. ZEN is tackling this challenge by working in close collaboration with researchers both in industry and in academia. From the work done by the ZEN team starting in 2018, the Company is now actively collaborating with 22 industrial end users and 10 Canadian universities. ZEN is also receiving significant interest from multiple Canadian government agencies who have already directly contributed over $2 million to ZEN’s high quality Graphene research and development work. "Our model of bringing together end-users with specific Graphene-related opportunities and researchers from top Canadian Universities to provide industry specific graphene solutions is proving to be attractive to all parties, " states ZEN's Co-CEO, Dr. Francis Dubé. "We are creating win-win-win scenarios for everyone involved as we help solve industry challenges in delivering the power of Graphene to end-users. Our work is also bringing leading edge research projects to Canadian academia and creating demand for our Graphene products while developing potentially valuable intellectual property (IP) protected inventions. The work being done across the country has the potential to make Canada a leader in the emerging clean technology-oriented Graphene industry." ZEN's high quality graphene production solutions and the potential economic benefit that they can bring to the Canadian economy have attracted the attention of several government agencies that are supporting innovation, sustainability and new clean technology. The Company will continue to work with the government program coordinators for the opportunities that ZEN's unique Albany Graphite product offers for innovative, high quality Graphene production.