VERSARIEN PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Jan 27, 2014

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RNS Number : 5596Y

Versarien PLC

27 January 2014

	##### 27 January 2014

Versarien plc

("Versarien" or the "Company")

Notification of Shareholding

Versarien plc (AIM: VRS), the advanced engineering materials group, was informed on 24 January 2014 that Mr J. Murray-Smith sold 1,000,0000 ordinary shares in the Company on 22 January 2014 representing 1.20% of the issued share capital of the Company. He now holds 15,000,000 ordinary shares representing 18.1%.

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For further information:

Versarien plc
Neill Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer	Tel: +44 (0) 1594 368 252
	www.versarien.com

Northland Capital Partners Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker)
William Vandyk / Lauren Kettle	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7382 1100
	www.northlandcp.co.uk
Westhouse Securities Limited (Joint Broker)
Tom Griffiths / Rob Sanders	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7601 6100
	www.westhousesecurities.com

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications Limited
Henry Harrison-Topham /  Alistair de Kare Silver	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7715
	www.abchurch-group.com

Notes to Editors

Versarien develops advanced micro-porous metals for thermal management. The open celled metallic foams produced by the Group at its manufacturing factory in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, are 'biomimetic' - that is they mimic the sponge like structures of biological materials, e.g. bone and coral.

Versarien's porous metals have an exceptionally high surface area relative to volume which means they are ideally suited to any function where surface area is important, for example heat transfer, heat exchange, catalysis and energy storage.  Versarien is initially targeting the thermal management industry due to the material's superb heat transfer properties.  The thermal management market is expected to reach US$S11.1 billion during 2013 (Source: BCC Research).

The Group's lead product is VersarienCu, a micro-porous copper. When incorporated into liquid cooling systems, VersarienCu can improve efficiency by up to ten times. Versarien's key market is cooling systems for central processing units (CPUs), hardware that is found in high performance workstations (engineering, science, CGI, animation), computer clusters, supercomputing infrastructure and data centres. VersarienCu can be retrofitted into 'cold plates' within existing infrastructure and the Group also intends to produce complete cooling systems containing VersarienCu.  

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