From Grams to Tonnes: Graphmatech Scales Up Production of Graphene Enhanced Materials
Until this spring, Graphmatech could produce only a few tonnes of graphene-enhanced material a year, enough for a research lab but not a supply chain. With new production equipment now up and running, the company is looking at roughly 200 tonnes annually, a leap that puts it firmly on the path from research player to industrial supplier.
Graphene has always had an impressive resume. It is strong, lightweight, highly conductive, and low in friction. For years, though, those properties lived mostly in lab reports and pilot projects. Graphmatech, founded in 2017 by Dr. Mamoun Taher and built on research out of Uppsala University, set out to change that. Rather than producing graphene itself, the company figured out methods to incorporate it into industrial materials the industry already relies on, such as plastics, metals, resins, and other industrial compounds.
The payoff is materials that do more than their base ingredients ever could. They become stronger, lighter, more conductive, and more durable. That versatility has opened doors across multiple industries, from conductive plastics and advanced polymers to graphene-enhanced metal powders for 3D printing.
Three Forces Driving the Current Demand
The first is regulation. As PFAS-based substances like PTFE /Teflon face mounting pressure from regulators and the market alike, industry needs a replacement that doesn’t sacrifice performance. Graphene’s low-friction properties makes it an attractive component in new low-friction material formulations intended to replace PFAS-based materials in certain applications..
The second is static electricity. In electronics and semiconductor packaging, industrial transport systems, and other sensitive environments, a stray electrostatic discharge can damage products or create real safety hazards. By making plastics conductive, Graphmatech gives customers a way to dissipate that risk without giving up the benefits of polymer-based materials.
The third is defence. Here, demand is driven by the need for lightweight, high-performance materials that combine mechanical strength with advanced electromagnetic properties, such as radar signature management and electromagnetic shielding. These multifunctional characteristics make graphene-enhanced materials attractive across a growing range of defence applications.
Taken together, these three forces point to a broader industrial need. Companies want materials that solve more than one problem at once, and Graphmatech’s platform is built to do exactly that.
From lab batches to tonne-scale orders
For most of its history, Graphmatech’s production capacity was a bottleneck, fine for R&D and small customer trials but a hard ceiling on anything bigger. That ceiling is now gone. New production equipment, installed and commissioned in spring 2026, pushes annual capacity toward 200 tonnes of graphene-enhanced materials, depending on the specific product.
The shift from lab curiosity to industrial supplier is already showing up in the order book. Graphmatech shipped its first order over one tonne in October 2025. By spring 2026, tonne-scale orders had become a pattern rather than an exception, including a single 3.4-tonne delivery for one project.
Building the business to match
Capacity is only half the story. After years focused mostly on research and custom material projects, Graphmatech is now strengthening its commercial organisation, including new commercial hires, and plans to continue growing the team.
A recently closed bridge financing round adds runway for that next stage. Arriving alongside larger production capacity and growing customer activity, it positions the company for its next phase of growth.
Graphmatech isn’t just proving graphene works. It’s proving the material can be delivered at larger scale, as part of a real supply chain. That’s the harder problem, and it’s the one that determines whether a material science breakthrough becomes a business.