Frontier IP Group's (AIM:FIPP) portfolio company Dekiln has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Johnson Tiles to explore a strategic partnership aimed at bringing Dekiln's kiln‑free, bio‑based materials to industrial scale and market roll‑out.
The MoU is non-binding and envisages Johnson Tiles supporting Dekiln to establish a pilot or demonstration manufacturing plant in Stoke‑on‑Trent while contributing manufacturing expertise, market access and product development and Dekiln supplying its proprietary processes and materials, Frontier IP said.
Dekiln's technology creates ceramic‑like composite materials by combining plant‑derived binders with waste mineral powders such as recycled gypsum to produce tiles that avoid high‑temperature firing and glazing. The company says the tiles have a carbon footprint 94% lower than conventional tiles and contain more than 95% recycled content.
The partnership follows Dekiln founder Dr Aled Roberts being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Green Future Fellowship, which included £3 million of funding to benefit the company.
"Aled's fresh thinking on recycling waste and removing the sintering process to create a product with the performance and aesthetics of traditional tiles while cutting embodied carbon is a real game‑changer," said Jason Bridges, Procurement Director of Johnson Tiles.
