Black Swan Graphene (TSX-V:SWAN) Inc has provided an update on its previously-announced industrial park concrete pour, noting that a shipment of product to Nationwide Engineering Research & Development (NERD) earlier this month is being used in a total of 180 tonnes of concrete using Concretene, NERD's graphene-enhanced admixture, for the construction of an industrial park near Redruth in England.
The graphene products producer said the pour of 82.5 cubic meters was done with reinforced concrete designed to achieve a compressive strength of 40 to 50 megapascals (MPa) after curing, using the standard ‘CEM1’ cementitious mix commonly used in construction.
The company added that it anticipates sharing updates on recent progress achieved in collaboration with key customers actively engaged for polymer applications.
As well, Black Swan noted that Toronto recently became the first North American jurisdiction to require lower-carbon construction materials, limiting embodied carbon from new municipal building construction.
“Similar standards initiated in California played a pivotal role in sparking the electric vehicle revolution,” Black Swan Graphene (TSX-V:SWAN) CEO Simon Marcotte said in a statement.
“With the concrete industry being responsible for more than 8% of global CO2 emissions, it is only a matter of time before similar building codes continue to spread across the globe,” Marcotte added.
Furthermore, Black Swan announced the appointment of Deena Siblock as the company’s corporate secretary.
Black Swan Graphene (TSX-V:SWAN) is focused on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, lithium-ion batteries, and others, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene.
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