Multi-Award winning technology

On Thursday 24th November 2011, the Saarland company, Nanopool®,  was named the overall national winner in the contest,,365 places in the land of Ideas”.

This is in recognition of its tremendous battle against dangerous Hospital germs. This award organised by the initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas” honours the inventiveness and the ingenuity of companies and research institutions in Germany under the patronage of the Federal President Christian Wulff. There have been 2,600 applications for the 2011 contest.

Finally, the global acting Nanopool® won out over the projects of the Cologne Max-Planck-Institute for neurological research and the Oberhausen Fraunhofer-Institute for environmental and safety technology.

Nanopool® invented a liquid solution based on glass to treat surfaces in hospitals and retirement homes to reduce germs. Therefore Nanopool® has been voted as best project in the category “Science”, by an expert-jury of 20 members including Professor Michael Hüther, Director of the Institute of German Economy. Due to this antimicrobial refinement, the spread of germs, e.g. on bedside tables, door handles, floorings or hospital beds can be inhibited. The efficiency of the technology has been proved by long-term studies.

“For us, this award means honour and incentive at the same time,” Nanopool®’s General Manager Sascha Schwindt says. “According to the motto of this contest, we would like to encourage people to realise outstanding ideas in favour to make Germany fit for the future.”