LONDON, UK: Directa Plus (AIM: DCTA), a number one producer and provider of graphene nanoplatelets based merchandise to be used in consumer and industrial markets, introduced that it has received authorisation from the United States Environment Protection Agency for the Company’s Grafysorber technology to be used on any oil contamination on US territory.
Directa Plus’s patented Grafysorber technology is a graphene-based solution for treating water sludges and emulsions containing hydrocarbons and is at least 5 times extra efficient than present applied sciences – adsorbing greater than 100 times its personal weight of oil-based pollutants. In addition, Grafysorber is sustainably produced, non-flammable and reusable, with the adsorbed hydrocarbons recoverable.
The approval follows a primary presentation of the technology to the California Natural Resource Agency, the highest Californian environmental authority, which suggested that Directa Plus undertook the authorization course of with the US Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to permit the use of Grafysorber within the United States.
After a full review of the information provided by Directa Plus, the US EPA has issued an official authorization letter stating that Grafysorber fully meets the EPA’s authorized necessities and can be utilized at any oil spill on US territory.
Commenting, Giulio Cesareo, Founder and CEO of Directa Plus, said: “The EPA approval is the vital first step towards entering the very large US oil decontamination market. We believe that the advantages of utilizing Grafysorber in contrast with competing merchandise will generate significant curiosity from the US decontamination companies we can now start approaching. We have always anticipated that this patented technology would have appreciable export potential and this authorization permits us to start to realise that potential. In addition, we expect to shortly be able to announce the primary order of Grafysorber from a UK company.”
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