Nanogate (Germany)

Nanogate is a leading international integrated systems provider for high-performance surfaces. Owing to Nanogate’s know-how and technologies, surfaces get new functions, production processes become more efficient, plastics are enhanced with additional multifunctional features, heating and filter use less energy and textiles get more powerful. Ever since it was founded, Nanogate has embedded sustainability as part of its corporate philosophy. This article shows the implementation of sustainability in Nanogate’s strategy, products and in its value chain. Building up trust plays a central role in this process

Typical nanomaterial production processes from daily practice had been performed in order to determine simultaneously the exposure to nanoparticles. They involve mixing of ZnO powder into a liquid, filling and emptying an oven with indium tin oxide (ITO), spraying a suspension of nanoparticles, flame spraying of silanes, and an outside location as comparison.