Graphene Innovations Manchester
Graphene Innovations Manchester (GIM) operates an advanced materials platform that combines 2D nanomaterials, AI, and robotics to make existing industrial materials perform better across construction, energy, defence, space, and data centres. The company engineers nanomaterials into products industries already buy, manufactures them at scale in Manchester, and has been approved as a vendor with Saudi Aramco with three products in production.
- New Materials
- Construction Technology
- Defense Tech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Clean Technology
- Robotics
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Advanced materials companies often struggle to move beyond the research stage into practical, industrial-scale deployment, leaving manufacturers without ready access to improved material formulations. This gap limits the performance, durability, and sustainability of materials used across critical sectors such as construction, energy, and defence.
Solution
GIM provides an advanced materials platform that engineers nanomaterials into products industries already buy, manufacturing them at scale in Manchester. The platform combines 2D nanomaterials, artificial intelligence, and robotics to make existing materials perform better, validated with customers in their own material systems. GIM's approach is cross-sector, delivering one platform that serves construction, energy, critical minerals, defence, drones, data centres, and space. The company ships in large volume and has been approved as a vendor with a major Gulf energy company, with three products already in production.
Target Audience
Primary customers are industrial manufacturers and infrastructure companies in construction, energy, critical minerals, defence, drones, data centres, and space sectors that need improved material performance, validated at industrial scale.
Features
- Combines 2D nanomaterials, AI, and robotics into a single materials platform applicable across eight industries
- Granted patent in critical minerals with demonstrated improvement
- Water-free GIM Concrete production, removing one of construction's largest resource demands
- AI and IoT defect detection in composites, winner of first prize from UKRI and EPSRC
- Radiation shielding materials developed with European Space Agency grant support
- In-house development and manufacturing under one roof in Manchester, enabling scale production rather than licensing-only operations