Notification of Shareholding

RNS Number : 1740M
Versarien PLC
21 August 2013
 



 

 

Press Release

21 August 2013

 

 

Versarien plc

 

("Versarien" or the "Company")

 

Notification of Shareholding

 

Further to the announcement made on 16 August 2013, Versarien plc (AIM: VRS), the advanced engineering materials group, is pleased to announce that on 20 August 2013 the Company was informed that Henderson Global Investors has acquired from Elektron Technology Plc 8,571,429 ordinary shares in the Company representing 10.31% of the issued share capital of the Company.

 

Commenting on the share purchase, Neill Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer of Versarien plc, said: "Henderson Global Investors are one of the UK's best recognised fund managers and by acquiring a significant stake in Versarien it clearly demonstrates their commitment and shared vision in the potential of the Company.  We welcome them as a new investor and the Board looks forward to working with them, as well as all our shareholders, in the future."

 

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For further information:

Versarien plc


Neill Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +44 (0) 1594 368 252


www.versarien.com

 

Northland Capital Partners Limited

(Nomad and Joint Broker)


William Vandyk / Lauren Kettle

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7796 8800


www.northlandcp.co.uk

Westhouse Securities Limited

(Joint Broker)

 

Tom Griffiths / Rob Sanders

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7601 6100

 

www.westhousesecurities.com

 

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications Limited


Henry Harrison-Topham /  Alistair de Kare Silver

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7715


www.abchurch-group.com

 

Notes to Editors

Versarien develops advanced micro-porous metals for thermal management. The open celled metallic foams produced by the Group at its manufacturing factory in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, are 'biomimetic' - that is they mimic the sponge like structures of biological materials, e.g. bone and coral.

 

Versarien's porous metals have an exceptionally high surface area relative to volume which means they are ideally suited to any function where surface area is important, for example heat transfer, heat exchange, catalysis and energy storage.  Versarien is initially targeting the thermal management industry due to the material's superb heat transfer properties.  The thermal management market is expected to reach US$S11.1 billion during 2013 (Source: BCC Research).

 

The Group's lead product is VersarienCu, a micro-porous copper. When incorporated into liquid cooling systems, VersarienCu can improve efficiency by up to ten times. Versarien's key market is cooling systems for central processing units (CPUs), hardware that is found in high performance workstations (engineering, science, CGI, animation), computer clusters, supercomputing infrastructure and data centres. VersarienCu can be retrofitted into 'cold plates' within existing infrastructure and the Group also intends to produce complete cooling systems containing VersarienCu.  


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