Beckers Industrial Coatings and MatOx begin research collaboration

Beckers Industrial Coatings Holdings AB and MatOx Oy have entered into a three-year research and development collaboration. Under the terms of this agreement MatOx will use computational approaches to design new coatings products with controllable functionality, which Beckers will have the option to bring to market. The work will be carried out at COMP, a national Centre of Excellence for computational nanoscience at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). MatOx will make this capability available to Beckers under the terms of the collaboration agreement and execute several projects targeting coatings with, for example, self-cleaning behaviour or physical properties that change in response to external stimuli. Both parties will share in the value realized through sales of products that result from the collaboration.