2. PROFACTOR DEMONSTRATES
THE POWER OF NANOSCALE
Smaller and faster at lower cost, well-known trends
from mature industries such as electronics and com-
munication technology are now capturing automotive,
medical technology, energy business, and many
other sectors of industry. Numerous branches now
benefit from innovations in nanotechnology and
their amazing capabilities in material and product
development.
Our PROFACTOR team, consisting of industrial
experts, physicists, and chemists with international
industrial experience and multidisciplinary exper-
tise, offers clear-cut benefits to our partners and
customers. Material and surface properties which
are compatible with multifaceted demands and
unusual customer requirements are developed on
the basis of chemical nanotechnology, micro- and
nano-structuring.
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3. PROFACTOR refines various materials gaining new characteristics for added value surfaces:
anti-fogging glass
self-cleaning wood
anti-reflective metals
water-repellent plastics
nano-structured new materials
catalytically active natural materials (e.g. stone)
super-hydrophobic
optical components
(e.g. as micro-lenses, holograms)
etc.
LEADING INNOVATIONS
4. INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS:
KEY OPTIONS
Our flexible and comprehensive modular system of
function and structure gives rise to a fast and easy
helicopter view of key options. According to your
product, application, wishes, and requirements, we
are able to apply coating and structuring processes,
or a combination of both.
Our expertise and equipment is based on
various coating materials and processes,
technologies for surface structuring,
competence in chemical and physical trouble-
shooting and solution oriented process
development, and
state-of-the-art instrumental analytical
equipment.
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5. INNOVATIVE OUTPUT: INNOVATIVE BENEFIT:
LEADING TECHNOLOGIES PRACTICAL SUCCESS
Besides production, processing and application of Our focus on processes and technologies, fast
nanoparticles, PROFACTOR focuses on two additional approaching their industrial breakthrough and being
fields of development in nanotechnology: Sol-gel tech- successfully employed in pilot products, has lead to
nology is used to functionalize and modify surfaces PROFACTOR´s first mover advantage from which our
and their properties. Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) is partners benefit in a sustainable manner. Processes,
a cost-effective technology for high-resolution, large tools, machinery, materials, and methods developed
scale replication of nanostructures. Combinations of at PROFACTOR assure all-round competency and
these technologies are offering an almost unlimited expertise in nanotechnology today: for your successful
field of inventions and innovations in the market to our product of tomorrow.
customers and partners.
Do you have an unusual application in mind and face
unusual challenges? Contact us!
LEADING INNOVATIONS
6. PROFACTOR GROUP:
FIT FOR COMPETITION
The PROFACTOR team guarantees the applicabi-
lity of state-of-art scientific findings resulting from
intensive contacts with national and international
universities and research institutes: for small to
mid-sized enterprises and for global players.
Since the PROFACTOR Group was founded
in 1995, the group’s innovative technological
solutions have helped it grow from a 4-man
production research team to Austria’s No. 1 in the
field of applied production research: today, more
than 120 staff works in multidisciplinary teams at
several locations to guarantee the success of our
partners and customers.
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7. KNOW-HOW FOR THE FUTURE:
NANOTECHNOLOGY BY PROFACTOR
ULTRATHIN, ANTI-STICKING COATING FOR NANO IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY
CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE AND SELF-CLEANING COATINGS
OPEN PORED, VAPOR-PERMEABLE
COATINGS FOR WOOD
STRUCTURED SUBSTRATES FOR RESEARCH IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
LEADING INNOVATIONS
8. PROFACTOR GmbH
Im Stadtgut A2 | 4407 Steyr-Gleink | Austria | Tel. +43(0)7252 885-0
Fax +43(0)7252 885-101 | sekretariat@profactor.at | www.profactor.at
This project is sponsored by the EFRE (European Fund for Regional Development),
the Republic Austria, the State of Upper Austria and the City of Steyr.
