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Highlights
- First buy order secured with international footwear firm Flux Footwear for graphene-enhanced athletic and leisure footwear
- US-based buyer turns into the third footwear consumer in First Graphene’s rising international portfolio to leverage PureGRAPH®‘s efficiency advantages
- Buy order marks FGR’s first business manufacturing utility in international sports activities shoe market, valued at greater than US$150 billion[1]
SYDNEY, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — First Graphene Restricted (ASX: FGR; “First Graphene” or “the Firm”) (FRA:M11) (OTCQB:FGPHF) is happy to announce it has secured its first buy order from US-based footwear firm Flux Footwear (“Flux”).
Flux Footwear Adapt Runner
Flux Footwear will incorporate PureGRAPH® into its athletic and leisure footwear vary, delivering energy and sturdiness enhancements to the model’s Graphene XT efficiency fitness center sneakers.
The acquisition order would be the Firm’s first manufacturing utility inside the sporting and athletic footwear sector, constructing on beforehand introduced success within the work and security footwear trade.
Following current growth work, PureGRAPH® was chosen to be used throughout Flux’s graphene-enhanced footwear vary and can progressively substitute present graphene fashions as manufacturing necessities improve.
Driving efficiency with superior supplies
Flux is an modern US efficiency footwear firm already utilizing graphene as a part of its product innovation technique via its Graphene-Professional™ footwear vary.
Graphene is utilized in high-wear areas of the outsole to boost sturdiness, abrasion and tear resistance, grip and adaptability with out pointless extra weight. PureGRAPH®‘s confirmed efficiency advantages will guarantee the standard of Flux’s footwear vary is maintained.
Flux has a well-established international buyer base, delivering graphene-enhanced footwear primarily into the US market.
The primary manufacturing order with First Graphene will set up a pathway for penetration into these markets via ongoing PureGRAPH® provide as Flux progresses manufacturing of its graphene-enhanced footwear.
Constructing on established success
The manufacturing order with Flux builds on First Graphene’s established technical and business expertise within the footwear section.
The Firm has beforehand progressed PureGRAPH® via growth, impartial testing and business manufacturing in work and security footwear, together with collaborations with Australian security footwear producer Metal Blue and Indonesian mining work boot producer PT Alasmas Berkat Utama.
PureGRAPH® was efficiently integrated into each kinds of footwear, concentrating on enhancements in abrasion resistance, tear energy and sturdiness, and subsequently progressed into business manufacturing.
The Flux order represents the subsequent evolution of this established utility, extending First Graphene’s formulation data and business expertise from industrial and security footwear into the considerably bigger sporting, athletic and leisure footwear section.
Whereas this preliminary order will not be itself financially materials to the Firm, importantly it reinforces the Firm’s capability to switch a longtime PureGRAPH® utility into a brand new buyer, product class and geographic market, which is a crucial part of First Graphene’s commercialisation technique.
The worldwide sports activities sneakers market is anticipated to be valued at greater than US$212 billion by 20351, representing a robust improve in demand for extra sturdy and longer-lasting sports activities sneakers.
First Graphene Managing Director and CEO Michael Bell mentioned:
“The primary manufacturing order for Flux Footwear represents one other vital business milestone for First Graphene, delivering a brand new income stream whereas reinforcing the Firm’s rising market presence constructed via years of strategic partnerships and product growth.
This business settlement with a globally famend firm will present potential pathways to recurring PureGRAPH® manufacturing demand whereas additionally additional increasing our presence within the US.
Our collaboration with Flux additionally displays the overarching rising international demand for extra sturdy, high-performing footwear, as customers and producers more and more prioritise longevity, efficiency and sustainability.
Most significantly, this development from growth and validation to manufacturing order and potential recurring income is strictly what First Graphene is concentrated on delivering from our business technique.
We look ahead to working with Flux because it continues to develop modern and high-performing footwear utilizing our confirmed PureGRAPH® merchandise.”
This announcement has been accepted by the Chairman.
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