Lubricants

Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced that it has submitted an additional application to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") for the manufacture and sale of graphene and graphene coatings (THERMAL-XR®), lubricants (G® LUBRICANT) and other graphene fluids in the United States. GMG expects to obtain this approval by the end of June 2027.

This application is in addition to the existing approval under PMN P-25-0018, which authorizes the Company to export, distribute, sell, use and dispose of graphene coatings across multiple industries in the United States.

Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced that it has secured a 20-year US patent and received approval in China for its graphene-based engine oil additive, G LUBRICANT, marking a further step in the company’s efforts to establish international intellectual property protection for the product.

The company said the latest developments build on a previously accepted patent covering the European region, with applications in several other countries still under review.

Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced the results of the G-LUBRICANT product demonstration test in a charity car rally across 3,850 kilometers in Australia. The Charity Rally ran from Australia's central city of Alice Springs to the country's Gold Coast. GMG sponsored the GC Strip rally team from the Gold Coast in their participation in the Charity Rally.

Before the start of the Charity Rally, the Rally Car Team drove 2,650km, 2,180km on sealed and 470km on unsealed roads, from Gold Coast to Alice Springs over a three day period. The Rally Car Team made the trip in a Ford Falcon Petrol/Gasoline engine rally car that had not yet been treated with G-LUBRICANT. On the trip to Alice Springs, the Ford Falcon averaged 10.8ltrs / 100km of fuel.

NanoXplore has announced that it has entered into a 'significant supply agreement' with Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem). This multi-year supply contract is to provide Tribograf™, a proprietary carbon product produced in NanoXplore’s graphene production facility in Montreal, Canada.

Drilling Specialties, a division of CPChem, alongside NanoXplore, developed and tested formulations based on Tribograf^TM for use as a lubricant in oil and gas drilling fluids. This lubricant is trademarked as NanoSlide and is currently commercial, with reportedly successful customer feedback and production orders underway.

Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has commenced global sales of its G® Lubricant product across several global markets, including Australia, the UK, Europe, China, Canada, and the US. The product will be available through both GMG's website and direct-to-customer channels.

GMG is exploring partnerships with large oil and gas companies and OEMs, while actively promoting the product through various advertising campaigns. The company also noted it has received formal requests for distribution rights in additional countries and is working to finalize packaging and labelling updates to comply with local requirements. It is scaling its sales team and production capabilities to meet growing demand, indicating a strategic push to solidify its position in the lubricant market.

Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced the results of an internal GMG run engine test when G® Lubricant was added to a Caterpillar 22 kVA diesel engine run at an 80% Load. 

Test results reportedly showed a 10% increase in energy efficiency (kwh/liters), and also a 33% reduction in harmful diesel engine exhaust particulate matter emissions, when three doses of G® Lubricant, with a maximum graphene dosage of 0.03%, was added to the standard diesel engine oil.

Versarien has announced, further to the previously announced manufacturing license agreement, know-how license and technical assistance agreement entered into with Montana Química, that it has now signed a two-year supply agreement to provide some of the Company's proprietary graphene and related material dispersions and formulations (Graphinks™) to Montana (the "Supply Agreement").

Montana is a Brazilian headquartered multinational business focused on the production and sale of paints, wood preservatives and other wood finishing products including paints, stains and varnishes.  Versarien understands it is Montana's intention to utilize the Company's Graphinks™ in application areas such as construction, composites, coatings and lubricants.

Researchers at the UK's University of Leicester, Russia's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Kemerovo State University, TerraVox Global in Cyprus, National University of Singapore and the University of Twente in the Netherlands have gained better understanding of superlubricity, where surfaces experience extremely low levels of friction.

The team addressed a longtime mystery in the principles of superlubricity – a state in which two surfaces experience little to almost no friction when sliding across one another. Superlubricity is associated with molecular smooth surfaces such as graphene and has only been observed in a laboratory environment where these surfaces can be synthesized. In various technological applications, this phenomenon could potentially reduce friction up to 1000 – 10000 times, as compared to conventional friction in machines and mechanisms.

Magellan International Lube & Chemical is a small company based in the US, that designs and sells products for heavy industry and the performance world. The company's owner has been successful in solving solutions for NASA and he has been inducted into the NASA Space technology Hall of Fame for Advanced Lubrication Technology.

Magellan's research team has been attracted to graphene years ago, and have spent over 5 years testing and developing the ability to enhance its lubricants with graphene materials. The company's first project was to develop a graphene-enhanced assembly lube.

HydroGraph Clean Power has announced that its patented Hyperion System, designed for scaled-up production of high-purity graphene, achieved a key technology milestone to produce commercial scale quantities graphene. 

The Hyperion System will produce fractal graphene to serve various markets including lubricants, energy storage, resins, specialty chemicals, coatings and other markets. The validation process reportedly confirmed the capex cost per metric ton of graphene produced will be one of the lowest in the industry. The system can produce over 10 metric tons per year using readily available commodity acetylene and oxygen.