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o Directa Plus journey from "spaceland to flatland" generating new products at each stop.

o Graphene Plus Technology (Large scale pristine graphene nano-platelets)

o Killer application: Graphene is the next innovative evolution in bicycle science, and Vittoria is leading the way

Born in the Netherlands in 1943, Rudie Campagne joined in 1963 the Royal Dutch Navy for his officer's training for the Dutch Marine Corps. He graduated in 1970 with a degree in law from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for international companies: Philips Consumer Electronics as junior manager in Holland and Singapore, 1970-77; French Thomson Consumer Electronics in the Singapore and in Paris HQ as Product and Commercial Director, 1978-1982. Appointed in 1983 Managing Director of the Audio Product Division at Thomson in Paris, he transferred the HQ and R&D to Singapore, managing or controlling manufacturing operations in various Asian countries.

In 1988 he started his career as entrepreneur by joining an international company in Singapore having its holding in Hong Kong. Later he turned this company into a globalized group called Vittoria Industries Ltd. that's still based in Hong Kong.

Directa Plus, founded in 2005, is a technology company whose goal is to develop, market and use innovative processes for nanomaterial generation. Production plant and research laboratories are located in Italy, within the ComoNExT Science Park, and in Germany. Directa Plus has developed and patented a scalable and environmentally friendly process for the production of large volumes of pristine graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs). On June 2014, Directa Plus opened the largest European Pristine GNPs production plant (according to available data) called "Graphene Factory", based on a patented and granted technology and with a production capacity of 30 tonnes/year.