공시 • Dec 16
GreenRoc Consortium Announces EUR 1.2 Million Danish Grant from the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme
GreenRoc Strategic Materials Plc announced that its wholly owned Danish subsidiary GreenRoc DK a/s, together with its consortium partners, has been granted a sum of up to DKK 10,448,826 (ca £1.2 million) for its proposed project entitled "EU-Graphite: Building European production of graphite active anode material" ("EU-Graphite") from the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme ("EUDP"), a Danish government funding programme. In August 2025, GreenRoc and partner institutions Danish Technical University ("DTU") and Institute for Product Development ("IPU"), a private Danish advanced engineering consultancy company (together, the "Consortium"), applied for a grant to support GreenRoc's technical development of active anode material ("AAM") processing capacity. A total grant Of DKK 10,448,826 (circa £1.2 million) has been awarded to the Consortium and will cover expenses related to the EU-Graphite project for 24 months, from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027, with EUDP covering 60% of the qualifying expenses incurred by GreenRoc and IPU and 90% in the case of DTU. All of the DKK 10.4 million grant funding awarded will be directed towards the development of GreenRoc's AAM processing capabilities with approximately DKK 6.3 million (ca. £730,000) payableto GreenRoc, approximately DKK 1.9 million (ca. GBP 220,000) to DTU and DKK 2.3 million (ca. £260,000) to IPU. Central to the EU-Graphite project is the upscaling of a hydrofluoric acid-free graphite purification technique. The industrial standard purification process to reach spherical purified graphite with a >99.95% graphite content is based on hydrofluoric acid ("HF") as the main leaching agent. However, HF is a highly hazardous and toxic chemical. Moreover, effluents containing fluorides, which are by-products from the use of HF purification, fall under the EU Water Framework Directive, requiring advanced treatment that makes large-scale HF-based purification economically and environmentally difficult to handle. GreenRoc and ProGraphite GmbH, its technical adviser, have developed an HF-free purification system based on sequential alkaline baking and acid leaching (non-HF), providing a sustainable alternative to conventional HF digestion. The EUDP grant will be put towards demonstrating this HF-free purification process at pilot-scale, advancing the technology and proving its functionality in a relevant operational environment and establishing the foundation for industrial scale-up. With theEU-Graphiteproject, it is GreenRoc's ambition to establish the capabilities for downstream purification of spherical graphite within Europe, creating the first end-to-end pathway from resource (Amitsoq) to battery-grade material and reducing Europe's present complete dependency on overseas raw material supply and processing capacity. By validating an HF-free process at pilot scale, the project will lay the foundation for a safe, sustainable, and domestic European supply of spherical purified graphite. Progress towards this goal will be monitored against three strategic objectives: SO1: Develop a purification process that overcomes critical bottlenecks, by designing purification steps that achieve the target purity without altering key graphite properties such as BET surface area, tap density, and particle size distribution, ensuring corrosion resistance of equipment in contact with aggressive reagents, and reducing stickiness between graphite and molten NaOH (sodium hydroxide) through process engineering solutions.SO2: Demonstrate pilot performance by validating stable 100 kg batch runs with sustained throughput of 1 tonne per month, and proving consistent quality outcomes with respect to pH, purity, and graphite morphology. SO3: Ensure environmental and regulatory compliance under EU REACH, through demonstrating effective effluent neutralisation, and validating safety and chemical recovery systems that enable closed-loop reagent handling. Together, these objectives will ensure that the pilot not only works technically but also delivers a sustainable, compliant, and scalable pathway for spherical purified graphite ("SPG")production.