Company
Brisbane, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round PPK Group raised.
Companies PPK Group acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Fenton | Managing Director | @AuManufacturing (Thu 3 Oct 2024), @AuManufacturing (Mon 10 Jul 2023) |
| Rick Francis | Non-executive Independent Director | @AuManufacturing |
| Robin Levison | Chairman | @AuManufacturing (Mon 10 Jul 2023), @AuManufacturing (Wed 17 May 2023), @AuManufacturing (Mon 16 May 2022) |
Stories naming PPK Group. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Australia's PPK Group has taken a stake in Italian B2B software firm Farport Software, aiming to build a Rome hub for its European operations; the piece weighs integration risks and the broader Asia-Pacific-to-Europe expansion trend.
Roundup of manufacturing briefs: FBR's US venture option with CRH lapses, Li-S Energy appoints Rick Francis to its board as a director departs, plus sponsorship, TAFE funding, rate commentary and a hydrogen collaboration.
Manufacturing roundup: Noizend's grants and UTS work, PPK's planned Li-S share distribution, a Bathurst recycling trial, Aurecon's CETRI role, an ELA regulatory hire, BioPak's OzHarvest support, and ANSTO's reactor restart.
Roundup covering Hanwha defence testing, a PPK Group CEO promotion, Immuron's sales growth, an Australian Vanadium retirement, Lumos Diagnostics' $4.75 million placement, and TAFE Queensland scholarships.
White Graphene, majority-owned by PPK Group and working with Deakin University, won Boeing's space sustainability pitch competition, securing up to $100,000 to develop boron nitride nanomaterial uses in aerospace.
Three unnamed subsidiaries of listed technology company PPK Group have received federal grants through Deakin University's renewable energy commercialisation hub, with market valuations noted for PPK and its Li-S subsidiary.
A plasma-coating company, a university and a manufacturing research centre will develop lower-water textile dyeing, supported through the centre's Activate grants program; a related facemask venture with PPK was flagged in September.
Battery developer Li-S Energy debuted on the ASX, with shares surging as much as 250% intraday, after its IPO raised $34 million at a $544 million valuation, ending the day worth about $1.5 billion.
Deakin University and Li-S Energy will produce lithium-sulphur batteries in Geelong at a new $20 million facility; the startup recently raised over $20 million and plans a public listing.
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Battery developer Li-S Energy collected $20 million from sophisticated investors ahead of a planned stock market float, valuing the business at $300 million, with PPK, Deakin University and BNNT Technology involved in development.
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Gary Walsh argues Australia must commercialise new materials like BNNTs, describing his company's licence with Deakin University, a federal government manufacturing grant, and PPK Group's co-funding of the technology.