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The EU requires all companies that either produce or sell over 1 ton of substances per annumn in the EU to participate in REACH. The current registration limits yearly sells to 10 tons, but the consortium is also aiming to start working on dossier updates for higher volumes (10 to 100 tons per year).
Interestingly the Graphene REACH registration consortia defines the substances as ones with thickness of less than 300 nm, thus covering all substances which are thinner than the substances as defined by the graphite consortia (> 350 nm). The new graphene ISO standard is much more strict - graphene nanoplatelet is defined as typically between 1 to 3 nm thick, while anything larger (and lower than 100 nm) is defined as graphite nanoplateles. Also, ""NanoXplore GmbH was established (June 2015) to help leading European industrial customers develop innovative products and solutions based upon NanoXplore's high quality, highly mixable graphene material." That was then; and yet, we know that not one collaboratively developed and necessarily validated graphene enhanced product commercialization and production offtake purchase agreement with any European based partner and customer has been successfully attained and publicly announced since the founding of NanoXplore GmbH (Germany of course).
Today, other than the serious strides another company named Black Swan Graphene has made with it's partners and customers within the UK (Europe), I am not entirely sure what has changed for NanoXplore within the European graphene market, in terms of NanoXplore's positioning or any actual sales of graphene within said market.
