Nanoprom Chemicals, the Reggio-based company that defeats Covid with innovation

Entrepreneurs and innovation will save the world. After discovering the recent history of Nanoprom Chemicals, the Casalgande company founded by Gianluca Falleti, on Il Foglio one cannot help but think so. Activate from 2000, it has nine employees and deals with cold vitrification, but also to produce special glasses for sophisticated technological devices and the lightest paints in the world.

BV-Stop, the anti-Covid paint by Nanoprom Chemicals

When the pandemic broke out, Falletti wondered, as an entrepreneur, what he could do to help out. So he decided to invest 330,000 euros to build a staff with one goal: inventing something that would secure homes, offices and school. The Emilia-Romagna Region, who had glimpsed the potential of the project, he had contributed by investing as much as 70 thousand euros. The outcome? BV-Stop was born, the paint that keeps all viruses away, bacteria and molds. We can therefore talk about the first anti-Covid paint in the world. An extraordinary result.

How BV-Stop works

It is a transparent varnish, can also be used on fabrics, which not only has no smell, but it also removes those caused by bacteria. The effectiveness is almost instantaneous. Thirty minutes after application, the bacteria are killed and the virus becomes inert 99,9%. With a liter of BV-Stop you can protect even thirty square meters of surface, but that's not all. The protection lasts five years.

This miraculous paint has been on the market for a month and the patent has been filed, there will be news soon. In the meantime, buyers are starting to arrive. Not just company canteens and schools, but the municipality of Casalgrande itself is also using it. And that's just the beginning.

Innovative masks, here is the Open Innovation award

In the first phase of the pandemic, also, Nanoprom Chemicals has produced innovative masks. Established at 45% of cellulose et al 55% of polyester, these masks are able to completely absorb water. In this way, the virus becomes inert in eight hours and there is no need to incinerate them. This innovation has allowed the Falleti-based company to win the Open Innovation award for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Nanoprom Chemicals numbers and prospects

Reading the ranking of the Financial Times one jumps. Nanoprom Chemicals, indeed, turns out to be the first Italian chemical company and the fourth in Europe in terms of economic growth considering the 2022 and the 2023. Not bad at all for a small company in the Reggio area that also appears in the "Leader of growth 2022" ranking by the Sun 24 Ore. The growth rate, indeed, settles around 54,76%.

Falleti now would like Nanoprom to be recognized as a B-Corp company. The certification would make official what is already known in the area: the firm is not limited to pursuing profit, but is characterized by high standards of social and environmental performance. And this goes beyond innovations in healthcare, to the anti-looting project aimed at avoiding speculation on masks and providing them at affordable prices. For example, last year a patent certified that the company was the only one on the market to offer an alternative option to electroplating. Thanks to the Nalucoat project, in which he focused on sustainable technology and materials, it is possible to avoid creating special waste. Yet another demonstration thatthe future is today and it is companies that make it possible.