About Universal Matter
Universal Matter has developed cleaner, faster, more sustainable, and more economical technology to scaleup and commercialize graphene, a carbon-based nanomaterial that can provide much improved mechanical and conductivity properties for other materials. Our proprietary and patented Flash Joule Heating process can convert diverse carbon sources into graphene with tunable characteristics for an almost unlimited number of applications.
Headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, with U.S. and U.K. Innovation Centers in Houston TX and Redcar UK, Universal Matter’s vision is to build on its strong R&D foundation to scale its production process and become the world’s leading supplier of lower cost and higher quality graphene materials from diverse carbon sources.
Our Milestones
Our Sites
UM facilities in Canada, United States and United Kingdom
- Corporate Headquarters:
UMI – 1320 Heine Court, Burlington, ON, Canada - New application development lab
- Demonstration plant:
graphene production capacity of 1mt/day; operational by Q4 2023
- USA Subsidiary:
UML – Houston, TX - Process, product & application development lab
- Pilot production:
produce 5 kg/day of graphene
- UK Subsidiary:
UMUK/UMGBR – Redcar, UK (Wilton Centre) - Process, product & application development lab (focus: paints & coatings)
- Dispersions production:
Capable of producing 36,000kg of Genable dispersions by Q4 2023. - Link to Applied Graphene Materials website
Potential for GHG reduction and Industrial Upcycling (Industry 5.0)
- Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value.
- The goal of upcycling is to prevent wasting potentially useful materials by making use of existing ones. This reduces the consumption of new raw materials when creating new products. Reducing the use of new raw materials can result in a reduction of energy usage, air pollution, water pollution and even greenhouse gas emissions.
- The flash graphene process can convert inexpensive carbon sources, such as coal, petroleum coke, biochar, and carbon black into graphene. Additionally, previous waste or low value recycling streams such as discarded food and mixed plastic waste can also be effectively converted into graphene via this new process. Finally, this process uses no reactor/furnace, no solvents and no reactive gases.
Our Team
Our leadership team includes renowned scientists specializing in chemistry and nanotechnology, as well as a highly successful cleantech entrepreneur with a deep background in chemistry.
