Vancouver, BC — January 16, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Plaid Technologies Inc. has completed and internally validated a significant advancement in its cement-enhancement process, marking progress in its graphene-enhanced wellbore cement platform.
The company (CSE: STIF) (OTC: STIFF) (FRA: 5QX0) has developed a graphene-enhanced cement additive, incorporating Plaid’s graphene-layering technology directly into the cement blend. This allows the fortified cement to be handled, transported, and mixed like conventional cement additives, leading to the immediate transition away from its previous mechanical modification system toward this simplified, ready-to-blend approach.
This innovation improves operational simplicity, efficiency, and scalability. The prepared additive aligns with standard weight formats, storage practices, and handling procedures used at oil and gas well-sites. This removes barriers that potentially limited large-scale deployment, eliminates the need for specialized mechanical equipment, additional power requirements, and on-site setup and management previously associated with mechanical cement modification.
The prepared additive is produced under professionally monitored conditions prior to delivery, enabling tighter formulation control and greater consistency than achieved through mechanical modification in variable field environments. The centralized production model supports repeatable performance at scale, helping reduce variability and enhancing reliability in wellbore abandonment applications.
By enabling operators to rely on existing mixing infrastructure and established logistics chains, the company believes this approach streamlines field operations and supports faster deployment, lower costs, and a smaller environmental footprint. These attributes align with the industry’s increasing focus on efficiency, predictability, sustainability, and solutions that can be adopted broadly without disrupting proven workflows.
Management views this development as a step forward in Plaid’s product evolution and a key enabler of commercial scale-up. The company is actively evaluating opportunities to establish intellectual property protections related to this newly developed prepared additive technology.
Guy Bourgeois, CEO of Plaid Technologies Inc., said that by moving from mechanical modification to a prepared graphene-enhanced cement additive, they’ve simplified deployment, improved consistency, and made the technology far easier to scale using existing field infrastructure. Bourgeois added that centralized production supports repeatable performance, and they believe this positions Plaid to help address the challenge of methane-leaking oil and gas wells in the U.S. as they advance toward commercialization.
The company focuses on the development and commercialization of graphene-enhanced technologies and is pursuing a range of applications for its proprietary graphene-infused concrete mixture, with an initial focus on wellbore cement and subsurface applications. Management expects Plaid’s unique mixture to pave the way for a new era in well abandonment, combining cutting-edge materials with precision engineering.
Guy Bourgeois, Director & Chief Executive Officer, can be reached at 1-800-585-7517 or info@plaidtechnologiesinc.com.
Source: Plaid Technologies Inc.
