In July we reported that China's Ningbo Morsh Technology is establishing a new graphene production line that will have an annual capacity of 300 tons (or tens of millions of graphene films). Now it is reported that production finally began.

China plans to build a state-level graphene industrialization base in China's Chongqing Municipality. Within 5 years, they hope to reach revenues of 100 billion yuan ($16.35 billion). Even now, if the capacity is indeed 300 tons per year, China is the world's leading graphene producer by far.

Ningbo Morsh Technology are supplying graphene to Chongqing Morsh Technology, who's building a production line in Chongqing that will be used to produce 15" single-layer graphene films that will enable transparent touch panel conductive films. You can read more details here.

A couple of months ago Cientifica raised £241,000 ($389,000) in the UK's stock exchange and the company is now public. Cientifica aims to acquire and build businesses that make use of graphene materials.

We talked to Cientifica's CEO Tim Harper and he explained the company's business plan and future plans. Click here to read the full interview.

Graphene Nanochem, in cooperation with the National Innovation Agency of Malaysia are going to develop Malaysia's national graphene hub. The hub, which will be launched in Q2 2014, will focus on the development of graphene and the commercial applications for graphene.

Graphene Nanochem also announced that they installed a second reactor at Nanomaterials' facility in Senawang, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company says this new reactor will double the company's graphene capacity to two tons per year.

2013 is soon over, and it was yet another year with exciting new graphene research and commercialization news. Here are the top 10 stories posted on Graphene-Info in the past year, ranked by popularity:

1. Lockheed Martin to commercialize a new graphene water desalination technology (Mar 19)
2. Graphene Aerogel, the world's lightest material ever made (Mar 23)
3. Graphene Nanochem successfully raised $50 million, trades in the UK's AIM exchange (Mar 29)
4. UCLA's laser-scribed graphene supercapacitors are ready for commercialization (Feb 26)
5. Wanna make graphene-oxide at home? Here's how (Apr 11)
6. Interview with Bluestone Global Tech's CEO (Apr 9)
7. Bluestone Global Tech now offers a 24" by 300" graphene film on copper (Feb 8)
8. Graphene defects can make it weak as the material exhibits a Pseudo Hall-Petch effect (Mar 31)
9. The Wall Street Journal reports on the graphene IP gold rush (Aug 26)
10. Durham Graphene Science (now Applied Graphene Materials) to go public (Oct 14)

Here's for an awesome 2014. Hopefully this year we'll actually see more graphene-based products on the market!