The Heath science park has created a new research and development facility for Nanoco Group, a leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and nanomaterials.
The new facility will enable Nanoco to service a major new contract within a very short timeline. Nanoco, which has its UK headquarters in Manchester, has been operating from The Heath in Runcorn since 2010 where it manufactures quantum dots and other nanomaterials.
Andrew Gooda, Supply Chain and Compliance Director for Nanoco Technologies, said: “We urgently required additional capacity. The attraction for us at The Heath is not only the space we needed but also the very specialist technical knowledge and expertise to manage the entire facilities project for us, thanks to their team of highly-skilled management staff and technicians.”
Nanoco (LON: NANO) harnesses the power of nano-materials. .Nano-materials are materials with dimensions typically in the range 1 – 100 nm. Nano-materials have a range of useful properties, including optical and electronic. Quantum dots are a subclass of nano-material that have size-dependent optical and electronic properties. The Group produces quantum dots. Within the sphere of quantum dots, the Group exploits different characteristics of the quantum dots to target different performance criteria that are attractive to specific markets or end-user applications such as the Display and Electronics markets.
