15 November 2019

Urbix Returns To Where It Started After Getting 'Incubated" @ Launch Point

Looks like 'a day of glory' for District 5 Councilmember David Luna with ribbon-cutting scissors in-hand in the photo opp that got featured in a press release from City of Mesa Newsroom yesterday:
Mesa celebrates expansion of Urbix Resources
into Falcon District
(Launch Point got re-located into empty space at The Mesa Center for Higher Education, the former police station, before city officials cooked-up plans for an ASU satellite campus.)
"Urbix was founded in 2014 and was the first client at the downtown Mesa location of LaunchPoint, the Mesa Technology Accelerator whose mission is to stimulate the establishment and growth of small technology-based companies and other businesses in the east valley. . . "
>> YOU CAN READ ALL OF WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAID in the press release, but here's the better read-out:
"This is a fantastic moment in our young history. To see how this relatively small facility of just 31,000 square feet will have such positive impact in the U.S.'s Energy Storage Critical Mineral Strategy, and also in the world, is super motivating and exciting," Urbix Resources Chairman and Co-Founder Nico Cuevas said.
"This is a huge milestone for us and we have plenty more work to do. We have an incredible team at Urbix and amazing support from the City of Mesa, the region and the state of Arizona."
In support of its eco-friendly approach, Urbix Resources was named Cleantech Open's Best Business Model in 2017. Cleantech runs the world's largest clean technology accelerator program, with the mission to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges.
For more information about Urbix, visit
www.urbixresources.com.
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Your MesaZona blogger had this to say on more than three earlier posts:
1 Most recent
30 September 2019
Mesa Start-Up Urbix Expands World-Wide Downstream Processing of High-Grade Graphene Products
BRIEF-Bass Metals Signs MoU With Urbix Resources LLC
Stock Markets7 hours ago (Sep 30, 2019 12:30)
Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bass Metals Ltd BSM.AX :* SIGNED A STRATEGIC MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WIT URBIX RESOURCES LLC
* MOU TO WORK OVER NEXT 180 DAYS TO ESTABLISH JV FOR PROCESSING OF BASS HIGH GRADE GRAPHITE INTO VALUE ADDED DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS
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Bass Metals plans Madagascar graphite downstream JV
30th September 2019 BY: Simone Liedtke
Writer
ASX-listed Bass Metals and downstream graphite processor Urbix Resources have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to identify the optimum joint venture (JV) structure and product mix with a view of establishing a production facility in Madagascar.
Bass’ large flake dominated deposit is suitable for a broad range of downstream applications, the mining company release said on Monday.
Bass and Urbix would delineate terms for establishing a JV facility in Madagascar capable of producing a purified high-value graphite product, which would use Urbix’s propriety technology and Bass’ graphmada large flake graphite.
Urbix’s proprietary advanced technology includes environment- and cost-conscious purification methods that were not reliant on environmentally unsustainable hydrofluoric acid treatments, Bass noted.
Urbix is currently engaged in building what will be one of the largest natural graphite purification facilities in North America.
Upon completion, the 9 450 km2 facility at Falcon Airfield in Mesa, Arizona will have the capability of purifying up to 24 000 t/y.
The parties would aim to establish the JV in the next 180 days
Source: https://m.miningweekly.com
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Valley graphene startup to open larger Mesa production facility 
Startup also unloaded assets in Mexico for undisclosed price
 
 
 
22 August 2018
Flash-Back > Fast-Forward: Here In Mesa Urbix Taking Top Position In World Graphene Production
Now here's a Lo-Fi downtown Mesa success story if ever there was one: the transformation of an under-used existing 53,000 sq.ft building that didn't deliver the results when city officials wanted to make Mesa "a college town" by locating Wilkes University and the so-called Center for Higher Education in the former Police Building on 2nd Street.
What is working well now at LaunchPoint is a company named Urbix, as noted on this blog site last year in a post an excerpt is inserted here. Read entire post > click here
There's an update today about advanced testing programs and more investments
16 May 2017
A New Era For Transnational AZ-Mexico Tech Development
Chairman of Mesa-based Urbix, Nico Cuevas Ushers in a New Graphene Era
by Maciej Heyman
Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.
“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH.
What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.”
As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations . . .
The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world.
Visit: www.UrbixResources.com
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23 April 2018
Mesa-Based Tech StartUp Urbix Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Urbix Resources Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
Graphene company’s investment oversubscription means full vision high tech initiatives will move forward
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