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Eco Buildings Group PLC (LSE:ECOB) has announced a series of board changes designed to strengthen its governance, financial oversight and strategic experience as the sustainable building materials company moves into its next stage of development.

Graham Stevens has been appointed as an independent non-executive director and will also take responsibility as chair of the company’s audit committee. His appointment brings additional experience in public companies, corporate finance and governance across a range of industries.

At the same time, former Fox Marble chief executive Chris Gilbert is returning to the board as an executive director. Gilbert brings extensive knowledge of the business, having been closely involved with both Eco Buildings and its predecessor operations.

His return is expected to provide strategic continuity and company-specific expertise as Eco Buildings works to expand its manufacturing capabilities and pursue growth opportunities in international markets.

The board changes also include the departure of non-executive director Ahmet Shala, who has stepped down after serving for more than three years. However, the company intends to retain access to his knowledge and experience through his proposed participation in an advisory board.

Together, the appointments give Eco Buildings a combination of additional independent oversight and established operational knowledge. The changes come as the group continues to refine its strategy following the reverse takeover that reshaped the business and its corporate structure.

Eco Buildings continues to face financial challenges, with ongoing losses and persistent negative operating and free cash flow weighing on its outlook. Recent corporate developments surrounding increased manufacturing capacity and international expansion provide more constructive signals.

Technical indicators have also shown stronger momentum in the near term, although signs of overbought conditions introduce some caution and the longer-term trend remains weaker. Traditional valuation measures offer limited support while the company remains loss-making and carries a negative price-to-earnings ratio.

About Eco Buildings Group

Eco Buildings Group PLC operates within the construction and building materials industry, with a particular focus on environmentally conscious solutions for the built environment.

The company has its origins in Fox Marble Holdings, giving the group a background in natural stone and associated building products. Following its corporate restructuring and reverse takeover, Eco Buildings has shifted its focus towards developing and commercialising sustainable construction technologies across its target markets.

Its strategy combines industry expertise, manufacturing expansion and strengthened corporate governance as the business seeks to establish a larger presence in international construction markets and advance its next phase of commercial development.

Getech Group plc (LSE:GTC) has strengthened its board with the appointment of Ajay Kejriwal as an independent non-executive director, bringing more than three decades of corporate finance and natural resources experience to the geoscience and data specialist.

Kejriwal’s appointment took effect on 24 August 2026. A chartered accountant, he has accumulated more than 35 years of experience spanning corporate finance, executive management and non-executive positions, with particular expertise across the energy and mining industries.

He currently serves on the boards of several companies operating within the energy and natural resources sectors, providing Getech with additional industry and capital markets expertise as the group pursues its commercial strategy.

Alongside joining the board, Kejriwal will become Chair of Getech’s Audit & Risk Committee. He succeeds Alyson Levitt in the role, with the company acknowledging her contribution to overseeing the committee during a period of growth and transformation for the business.

Getech expects Kejriwal’s background in financial reporting, risk management and corporate finance to strengthen its governance framework. His experience in shareholder value creation is also expected to support the board as the company seeks to build on commercial momentum and pursue opportunities across changing global energy and natural resource markets.

The company’s financial performance remains a constraint on its wider outlook, with continued losses and negative operating and free cash flow despite signs of improvement. Technical indicators provide a more positive picture, with Getech shares trading comfortably above several major moving averages. Traditional valuation measures remain less supportive, however, given negative earnings and the absence of dividend yield data.

About Getech Group plc

Getech Group plc is a UK-listed provider of subsurface and geospatial intelligence for companies, governments and regulators operating across global natural resource markets.

Founded in 1994 and traded on AIM, the company combines proprietary earth-science datasets with geospatial expertise and advanced analytical technologies. Its services are designed to help customers identify, evaluate and manage natural resources while reducing exploration uncertainty and improving project economics.

Getech operates across conventional and emerging resource sectors, including oil and gas, critical minerals, geothermal energy and natural hydrogen. Its technology and data capabilities are intended to support decision-making throughout the resource lifecycle, from early-stage exploration and opportunity identification through to asset development.

As global energy and mineral requirements evolve, Getech is positioning its geoscience expertise to help customers identify new opportunities, manage exploration risks and make more informed investment and development decisions.

Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas (LSE:ECO) has highlighted growing exploration potential across its offshore portfolio following resource updates from strategic partner Navitas Petroleum covering assets in the Falkland Islands and South Africa.

The company is working to increase its exposure to the North Falkland Basin through the proposed acquisition of JHI Associates, which would provide Eco with an interest in licence PL001. The transaction would expand the group’s position across the Atlantic Margins while giving it exposure to a potentially significant exploration campaign alongside Navitas.

Navitas is planning a multi-target exploration well on PL001 as part of the wider Sea Lion Project drilling campaign, which is expected to begin in early 2027. The first exploration target is estimated to contain approximately 640 million barrels of 2U prospective resources.

In the event of exploration success, around 225 million barrels of those prospective resources would be attributable to Eco following completion of the planned JHI acquisition. The scale of the target gives the company potentially material exposure to further discoveries in the North Falkland Basin.

Eco has also reported an increase in the estimated resource potential of Block 1 CBK offshore South Africa. Joint technical work carried out on the acreage has raised unrisked prospective gas resources to approximately 4.5 trillion cubic feet, alongside more than 3,600 million barrels of prospective liquids resources.

The updated estimates reinforce the potential scale of Block 1 CBK, where Eco holds an operated interest. Further progress will depend partly on regulatory approvals, which will influence the timing and scope of future exploration, development and investment decisions.

Management views the latest Falklands and South African assessments as further evidence of the substantial offshore resource potential within Eco’s portfolio. The company is seeking to expand its relationship with Navitas across multiple regions while maintaining exposure to large-scale exploration opportunities.

Eco has also emphasised the importance of clear and efficient regulatory frameworks in unlocking offshore investment. Management believes regulatory certainty is essential to attracting development capital and allowing hydrocarbon projects to contribute to energy security, employment and wider economic activity in host countries.

About Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas

Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas is an exploration company quoted on AIM and the TSX Venture Exchange, with a portfolio focused on offshore opportunities across the Atlantic Margins. Its interests span Guyana, Namibia and South Africa, with the company targeting oil and gas resources in emerging basins and areas with access to existing or developing infrastructure.

In Guyana, Eco operates the 1,354-square-kilometre Orinduik Block and holds a 100% working interest in the licence, which lies within the prolific Guyana-Suriname Basin.

In Namibia, the company operates PELs 97, 99 and 100 in the Walvis Basin and initially holds an 85% interest in the licences. Following completion of a planned farm-down to BP, Eco’s interest is expected to reduce to 25%.

The company also holds a 5.25% interest in South Africa’s Block 3B/4B and a 75% operated interest in Block 1 CBK.

Eco Atlantic’s strategy is centred on building exposure to potentially significant offshore resources while working with established industry partners. Its collaboration with companies including Navitas Petroleum forms part of its approach to advancing exploration opportunities while managing capital requirements and development risk.

Galileo Resources (LSE:GKR) has reported evidence of a newly identified porphyry copper system accompanied by skarn mineralisation at its Ferber project in Nevada, strengthening the exploration case for the U.S. asset ahead of planned drilling.

The findings follow detailed microscopic and X-ray diffraction analysis of rock samples collected from the property. Reviews carried out by external specialists and consultants indicate that the observed mineral zonation and alteration characteristics are consistent with a fertile and potentially extensive porphyry system.

According to Galileo, the geological evidence suggests the system was active over a prolonged period, increasing the potential for the development of a sizeable mineralised body. The presence of associated skarn mineralisation provides an additional exploration target within the wider Ferber system.

The results have given the company further confidence in its proposed drilling campaign, which is expected to test both the porphyry copper target and surrounding skarn mineralisation. Drilling will be important in determining whether the encouraging surface and geological evidence extends at depth and can ultimately support a significant mineral discovery.

Galileo views Ferber as increasingly relevant against a backdrop of rising U.S. demand for domestically sourced copper and a limited pipeline of major new projects. Confirmation of a substantial copper system through future drilling could therefore strengthen the project’s strategic importance and provide a potential catalyst for further development.

The company’s financial profile remains a key constraint, with no revenue, consistently negative EBIT and continuing negative free cash flow. These factors are partly mitigated by Galileo’s debt-free balance sheet. Technical indicators are broadly neutral to moderately constructive, while conventional valuation metrics provide limited guidance because of negative earnings and the absence of a dividend yield.

About Galileo Resources

Galileo Resources Plc is a mineral exploration company focused primarily on copper and polymetallic opportunities, with projects in the United States and other jurisdictions.

At the Ferber property in Nevada, Galileo is exploring for porphyry copper systems, skarn-hosted polymetallic mineralisation and sediment-hosted gold. The company operates the licence in partnership with Bronco Creek Exploration Inc. under a royalty and exploration agreement.

Ferber covers approximately 30 square kilometres in Elko County and has a lengthy history of exploration and mining for copper, lead, silver and gold. Activity in the district stretches back to the late 19th century, with further significant exploration undertaken during the 1980s and 1990s.

Geologically, the Ferber District contains a multi-phase Eocene igneous complex that intrudes older carbonate rocks. This setting has produced limestone doming, marble and skarn development around intrusive margins, creating conditions favourable for contact skarn and replacement-style polymetallic mineralisation.

The property also contains structurally controlled gold targets and a porphyry base metals and gold prospect within a faulted sequence of sedimentary and intrusive rocks, giving Galileo several different mineralisation styles to investigate.

Historical exploration has included extensive surface sampling and relatively limited shallow drilling. Previous work has reported gold intersections grading as high as 2.37 g/t over several metres, while copper grades of up to 0.83% have been recorded over intervals exceeding 12 metres.

Grab sampling undertaken by Galileo has additionally produced elevated grades of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc, together with anomalous bismuth and arsenic. The latter two elements are classified as critical minerals in the United States, adding another dimension to the exploration potential of the Ferber property.

Nuformix plc (LSE:NFX) has appointed experienced corporate financier Tim Metcalfe as Non-Executive Chairman and Director as the pharmaceutical development company looks to strengthen its strategic and capital markets expertise.

Metcalfe will take up the roles with effect from 1 September 2026, succeeding Julian Gilbert, who will step down as Chairman and leave the board on 31 August for personal reasons. Gilbert will continue working with Nuformix in a consultancy capacity, providing continuity during the leadership transition.

The incoming chairman brings more than 30 years of experience across corporate finance, financial communications and the UK capital markets. He co-founded investor relations and financial PR consultancy IFC Advisory and has also held senior non-executive positions at other listed businesses.

Nuformix expects Metcalfe’s experience to support its efforts to generate shareholder value from NXP002, its lead development programme, as well as assist with ongoing partnering discussions and the company’s broader capital markets strategy.

The appointment comes as Nuformix continues to explore commercial opportunities across its fibrosis and oncology portfolio. Strengthening the board’s corporate finance and advisory expertise could prove particularly relevant as the company evaluates potential partnerships, licensing transactions and other strategic options for its development assets.

Gilbert’s continued involvement as a consultant is intended to provide additional support as Metcalfe assumes responsibility for chairing the board and helping guide the next stage of the company’s strategy.

Nuformix’s financial position nevertheless remains challenging, with an absence of recent revenue, continued losses and ongoing cash consumption weighing on its outlook. The company’s debt-free balance sheet provides some financial support, while shorter-term technical indicators have shown signs of stabilisation. Longer-term price trends and momentum remain mixed, however, and traditional valuation measures offer limited guidance while the business remains loss-making and does not pay a dividend.

About Nuformix Plc

Nuformix plc is a pharmaceutical development company focused on addressing unmet medical needs in fibrosis and oncology through the repurposing of existing drugs.

The company specialises in discovering, developing and patenting novel forms of known pharmaceutical compounds with altered or improved physical properties. This approach is designed to create differentiated products with new commercial applications while potentially reducing some of the development risks associated with entirely new drug candidates.

Nuformix is building a portfolio of preclinical assets with the aim of creating opportunities for partnerships and licensing transactions at relatively early stages of development.

Synergia Energy (LSE:SYN) has increased production at its Cambay Production Sharing Contract in India after completing new pipeline connections that allow associated gas from several legacy wells to flow into the field’s export infrastructure.

The company has tied gas production from the C-19z and C-64 wells into a newly installed in-field pipeline network connected to the C-73 gas export facility. These wells now contribute alongside the established C-73 and C-77H producers, increasing aggregate production from the Cambay field.

As of 23 August 2026, total gas production from the Cambay PSC had reached 124 Mscfd. Synergia expects output to increase further to approximately 200 Mscfd once the C-74 well is brought online, which is anticipated in the coming days.

Additional production potential remains available from the C-08 well, where associated gas has yet to be connected to the new pipeline system. Bringing this supply into the network could provide another incremental increase in output and improve the reliability of gas deliveries from the asset.

The latest infrastructure work represents further operational progress at Cambay as Synergia seeks to maximise production from its existing well portfolio and make more effective use of the field’s gas export facilities.

The company’s wider financial position remains challenging, with a sharp reduction in revenue, negative gross margins and continuing operating and free cash flow losses weighing on the outlook. These pressures are partly balanced by relatively low levels of debt.

Recent corporate developments have produced a mixed picture. Progress at Cambay and continuity in the company’s governance provide positive signals, while the decision to relinquish the Camelot carbon capture and storage licence represents a setback elsewhere in the portfolio. Conventional valuation measures remain of limited use given Synergia’s negative price-to-earnings ratio and lack of dividend yield data, while limited technical information makes it difficult to draw strong conclusions from share price indicators.

About Synergia Energy Ltd

Synergia Energy Ltd is an AIM-listed oil and gas company focused primarily on upstream production activities in India.

The company holds a 50% working interest in the Cambay Production Sharing Contract, where it operates a portfolio of legacy and horizontal wells. Gas produced from the field is transported through internal infrastructure to export facilities, with Synergia continuing to develop and optimise the asset to improve production performance.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LSE:ONT) has strengthened its senior leadership team with two executive appointments aimed at supporting product development, customer engagement and the continued commercial expansion of its sequencing technology.

David Miller will become Chief Development and Product Officer with effect from 1 September, while Conor McKechnie is set to join the company as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer from 1 October. Both executives will become members of Oxford Nanopore’s executive team.

The appointments bring additional industry experience to the group, with Miller and McKechnie having previously held senior positions at companies including Pacific Biosciences, Illumina, Cytiva and GE Healthcare.

Under the revised leadership structure, Oxford Nanopore is seeking to create closer alignment between product management, development and applications on one side and global marketing and corporate affairs on the other. The approach is intended to strengthen the connection between technological innovation, customer requirements and commercial execution.

Management believes the appointments will help the company deepen its focus on customers, sharpen its positioning across target markets and maintain disciplined execution as the business expands. The changes also come as Oxford Nanopore continues to scale its differentiated nanopore-based sequencing platform internationally.

The company continues to report strong revenue momentum and healthy gross margins, although its financial profile remains affected by substantial losses and persistent negative operating and free cash flow. Recent guidance around growth, margins and cost discipline has provided a more positive indication of the company’s potential financial trajectory.

Technical indicators have also been supportive, reflecting an established upward trend in the shares, although signs that the stock is approaching overbought territory introduce some caution. Valuation remains influenced by Oxford Nanopore’s loss-making position and the absence of dividend support.

About Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc develops nanopore-based molecular sensing technology designed to enable real-time analysis of DNA and RNA.

Its sequencing platforms are used across more than 125 countries by customers in research, clinical and biopharmaceutical markets. Applications span human, plant, animal and microbial biology, with the technology used in areas ranging from healthcare and scientific research to food and agriculture.

Oxford Nanopore’s technology is designed to provide flexible and scalable molecular analysis, allowing users to generate sequencing information in real time across a wide variety of research and commercial settings.

Pennant International (LSE:PEN) has strengthened its position in the U.S. defence market after securing another sale of its Auxilium systems support software through its strategic partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software. The agreement represents the second customer win delivered through the Siemens sales channel this year.

The latest contract involves a major U.S. defence customer and provides further evidence of growing commercial demand for Pennant’s Auxilium platform. It also supports the company’s strategy of using indirect sales partnerships to broaden the software’s reach within complex and highly regulated defence environments.

Alongside the new contract, Pennant reported that annual recurring revenue generated by Auxilium has increased to approximately £2.9 million. This compares with £2.4 million at the end of FY2025 and represents a new record for the group.

The increase in recurring revenue supports Pennant’s ongoing transition towards a business model with a greater contribution from software and services. Expanding this portion of the revenue base has the potential to improve visibility over future income while reducing reliance on individual project-based contracts.

The latest Auxilium sale also strengthens Pennant’s presence in mission-critical defence and aerospace support markets, where customers require sophisticated tools to manage increasingly complex equipment, logistics and maintenance requirements.

Pennant’s broader financial performance nevertheless remains challenging, with declining revenue and widening losses weighing on its outlook. Cash generation has remained modest and inconsistent. In contrast, technical indicators have recently been stronger, with the shares trading above major moving averages, although a high relative strength index points to the possibility of overbought conditions. Valuation measures also remain difficult to assess conventionally while the company is loss-making and does not provide a dividend yield.

About Pennant International

Pennant International Group PLC is a technology-focused provider of systems support software, technical services and training solutions for customers operating in aerospace, defence, rail and other safety-critical industries, including shipping, nuclear and space.

Headquartered in Cheltenham, the group operates across the UK, North America and Asia-Pacific. Its strategy is increasingly focused on generating higher-margin, recurring and repeatable revenues from software, technical services and specialist training solutions.

Pennant’s Auxilium software suite provides integrated product and logistics support capabilities designed to help organisations manage complex equipment information, improve asset availability and comply with relevant industry standards.

The group’s technical services operations provide consultancy, maintenance, support and bespoke development, while its training systems division develops hardware, software and virtual training solutions for personnel operating and maintaining aircraft, naval vessels and land-based platforms in highly regulated markets.

Windar Photonics (LSE:WPHO) has opened a retail share offer through the BookBuild platform as part of a wider fundraising initiative ahead of the planned resumption of trading in its shares on AIM. The company is seeking to raise up to £200,000 by issuing as many as 4,000,000 new ordinary shares at 5 pence each.

The offer price represents a substantial discount to the company’s final closing share price before trading was suspended on AIM. Investors participating in the retail offer will also receive a three-year warrant for each new share subscribed, exercisable at 10 pence per share.

Participation is restricted to existing Windar Photonics shareholders in the UK and is being made available through eligible intermediaries participating in the BookBuild platform. The structure is intended to give retail shareholders an opportunity to participate alongside investors involved in the company’s separate placing and direct subscription.

Completion of the retail offer is dependent on several conditions. These include successful completion of the placing, publication of Windar Photonics’ audited accounts for 2025, the lifting of the current AIM trading suspension and admission of the newly issued shares to trading. Admission is currently targeted for 28 August 2026.

By including a dedicated retail component in the broader capital raise, Windar Photonics is seeking to provide existing individual shareholders with access to the fundraising while securing additional capital for its operations. The transaction also forms part of the steps being taken by the company towards restoring trading in its shares.

The company is using applicable regulatory exemptions governing public share offers to conduct the retail fundraising. Together with the institutional placing and direct subscription, the structure is designed to maintain participation across management, institutional investors and the existing retail shareholder base.

Windar Photonics continues to face financial and market-related challenges, with weak underlying financial performance and bearish technical indicators weighing on its outlook. Negative valuation metrics add further pressure, while recent strategic and corporate developments provide some positive momentum but have yet to outweigh the company’s broader financial and technical difficulties.

About Windar Photonics

Windar Photonics plc is a UK-listed wind energy technology company specialising in LiDAR-based systems used to measure wind conditions and optimise wind turbine performance.

Its technology is aimed at operators of both onshore and offshore wind farms, providing sensor-based solutions intended to improve turbine efficiency and increase energy generation. The company targets both existing wind turbine fleets and new installations as the global renewable energy sector continues to expand.