Ilika plc describes itself as a pioneer in solid–state battery technology and as a materials innovation company, that has developed a type of lithium-ion battery, which instead of using a liquid or polymer electrolyte, uses a ceramic ion conductor. Two or three years ago the London AIM-listed Ilika elected to focus its initial cell development [...]
AIM-listed Accsys Technologies is a chemical technology company specialising in the acetylation of wood, a process that makes the wood stronger and prevents decay. Their primary focus is the production of Accoya solid wood and Tricoya wood elements, used for windows, doors, decking, cladding and other construction products. We last wrote about the company on [...]
This article first appeared on the Climate News Network website, www.climatenewsnetwork.net , with which Greenbarrel has a publishing partnership. Climate News Network is, as its name suggests, preoccupied with climate change, but it also publishes energy articles. Greenbarrel's main purpose is to encourage investment in renewable energy and clean technology companies, but we also write [...]
The London quoted Berkeley Energia is a high impact, self-described clean- tech-energy company focused on bringing its wholly owned Salamanca mine into production. This world class uranium project is being developed in an historic mining area in western Spain, about three hours west of Madrid. Having tortuously gained all the Spanish and EU approvals for [...]
Greenbarrel is pleased to announce it has formed a partnership with Climate News Network (www.climatenewsnetwork.net) in that we will re-publish some of their articles and they will re-print certain of ours. Climate News Network, is a free and objective service which as its title suggests, is mainly preoccupied with publishing articles about climate change. But [...]
We wrote about AIM-listed Altona Energy on 15 August 2016. The first paragraph of our report said that “Altona last appeared in Greenbarrel in February 2014. Since then there have been a lot of changes but little progress.” What was meant by this was that the company, despite on-and-off offers of huge financing from Chinese [...]
Biome Technologies, the AIM-listed bioplastics and radio frequency technology business, was on a roll in the first quarter of 2018. Following a pre-close trading statement for the financial year ended 31 December 2017, issued late in 2017 the company’s share price hit a 52-week high of 365 pence in late January 2018. The trading update [...]
TyraTech is a London quoted corporate minnow focused on nature derived insect and parasite control treatments. For years, like other small clean-tech and renewable energy groups, the company battled to clear seemingly interminable regulatory hurdles and establish commerciality for its products. This put pressure on its cash resources to the point of exhaustion. The group’s [...]
Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO), a London-based company quoted on AIM, recently released its interims for the six-months up to 31 March 2018. EPO’s main asset is a 50 per cent share in Liberian Palm Development (LPD), which has started, or rather re-started, developing commercial palm oil production in Liberia. (West Africa was the original home [...]
In our reporting on the renewable/alternative energy sector we have come across a number of start-up groups that have raised what seemed like large amounts of money. These funds were then spent establishing the commercial possibilities of their innovative – and sometimes unproven – products; and overcoming regulatory hurdles. This meant that revenues stayed low [...]