The team meets at their new premises in the Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre in Manchester
(5 April 2022, Manchester UK) - Seb Leaper, CEO, Ahmed Abdelkarim, CTO, and Fiona Porter, Operations Director, are joined by their commercial and strategy advisory board, Chris Rowley and Paul Dudley from Aer Ventures, and Phil Kemp, former CEO of Bruntwood Scitech, at the company’s new premises in the Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (GEIC). The GEIC is an industry-led innovation centre, designed to work in collaboration with industrial partners to create, test and optimise new concepts for delivery to market, along with the processes required for scale up and supply chain integration. A dedicated team of experienced Application Managers, Application Specialists, Technicians and the Business Engagement team are available for support.
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About Watercycle Technologies - www.watercycletechnologies.com
Watercycle, spun out from the University of Manchester and backed by business accelerator Aer Ventures, is an innovative, sustainability-driven deep tech company focused on developing high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its advanced innovative membrane distillation-crystallisation (‘MDC’) technology is capable of treating highly concentrated water and is initially being utilised in lithium production from sub surface water and brines, as well as lithium-ion spent battery recycling, particularly relevant with regards to the current global transition towards a Circular Economy. The Company is operating from the world class facilities at the Masdar Building at the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre in Manchester, enabling the team to conduct critical R&D in state-of-the-art laboratories. Watercycle has a strong ethics-based business model that delivers profitable commercial solutions that are also focused on sustainability, environmental protection, and remediation.
About The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) - www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/geic
GEIC helps companies develop and launch new technologies, products and processes that exploit the remarkable properties of graphene and other 2D materials. Its world class facilities and resources, housed in the Masdar Building, are supported by experienced and knowledgeable applications engineers and internationally renowned academics, working across a broad range of novel technologies and applications. Together, it can help design, develop, scale and ‘de-risk’ the next generation of innovative products and processes.