Nanocoatings business news June-July 2017

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ShayoNano USA, Inc., a subsidiary of ShayoNano PTE, Ltd. Singapore, has established its first US production facility, based in Houston, TX. The facility will produce ShayoNano’s nanochemistry products for the Paints and Coatings Industry, including SmartHide™, an economical alternative to titanium dioxide. “This plant will serve as a model for future planned North American production sites as we continue to expand our mission to bring affordable nanochemistry products to meet the needs of paints and coatings manufacturers,” said Mahesh Patel, the company’s CEO. The facility has an annual capacity of at least 300 tons.

Applied Graphene Materials has partnered with HMG Paints to develop and commercialize graphene-containing coatings for a variety of industries. Following an initial stage of controlled environment testing, which reportedly produced positive results, the two companies are now testing their product in a real world environment.
Tests will focus on the application of graphene-based coatings in both the commercial Vehicle and construction Equipment markets in partnership with a leading UK commercial vehicle body builder.

IIT Bombay has developed a nanophotonic coating, that allows colour coating of solar glass buildings without affecting their energy-harvesting capabiliites. The coating, named Selectively Modulated Aesthetic Reflector Technology (SMART), can be deposited over cover glass of solar modules to impart it a desired colour thereby giving it aesthetic value without making any alterations in the manufacturing process of the solar cells. The SMART coating can be produced by PVD or CVD methods and doesn’t require any high thermal process. The reflection peak of the SMART coating can be tuned for different wavelengths of light.
The patented invention has garnered interest from glass manufacturing companies.
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a sprayable nanocoating technique for extending the shelf life of produce.

The technique relies on nanometer-thick films made with plant-derived polyphenol, and can be applied to any surface in a matter of seconds. Past techniques have depended upon highly specific interactions between coating materials and target surfaces for a stable and durable coating. Because they depend on dipping substrates into specialized coating solutions, they have also proved to be time-consuming or impractical for the coating of bulk substrates such as fruits. Avoiding cross-contamination is another challenge for traditional immersion methods. Read more at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07257-x

CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets cardiovascular products based upon its novel Polyzene™-F nanocoating technology, has announced the completion of a 4-year joint financing arrangement with Congruent Investment Partners and SWK Holdings Corporation.
Earlier this year, CeloNova initiated the U.S. commercial launch of its first-in-class COBRA PzF™ NanoCoated Coronary Stent (NCS). Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat patients with symptomatic ischemic heart disease, including those with diabetes mellitus, the COBRA PzF NCS requires a minimum 1-month dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) regimen following intervention.

Following on from the funding announcement earlier this year, where nanocoatings company P2i secured a £10 million funding deal from Clydesdale Bank, CEO Ady Moores said “following a very strong first half year financial performance where we have exceeded all our targets, we have seen a marked up-take in the adoption of our existing technologies by new consumer electronic customers. We continue to ramp up our production capacity in our customers factories as we move into their peak production periods. In the mobile market we are seeing higher end devices moving towards much higher levels of water protection, and our next generation coating will enable us to offer a waterproof coating solution to the mobile industry.”

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