Bioni in the news

July 27th 2009
New colour shading system for Bioni paints
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July 13th 2009
New Bioni office in the United Arab Emirates
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May 8th 2009
Bioni accompanies Hessia’s minister-president Roland Koch to the Gulf Region
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January 2009
Bioni provides paint for the interior of four hospitals in Moscow
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November 12th 2008
ZDF “Abenteuer Wissen” (TV science programme) reports on Bioni’s nano-paint
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November 2008
Romero Britto work of art in London’s Hyde Park using Bioni paints
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October 2008
Appli-Tech 2009
Bioni at the Painters’ Professional Fair in Lucerne
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July 2008
Atheco AG and Bioni at the Zurich Construction Fair
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July 2008
Nano-materials in architecture, interior architecture and design -
Bioni projects used as practical examples in Sylvia Leydecker’s new book
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May 15th 2008
European Research prize for Bioni and the Fraunhofer ICT
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February 2008
Bioni exhibits at the largest Russian construction fair
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January 31st 2008
Bioni awarded the “2008 European FROST & SULLIVAN Prize” for outstanding achievements in the field of research
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June 6th 2007
Bioni Nature and Bioni Hygienic receive a certificate for healthy indoor atmosphere
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June 2007
Homes Cooperative relies on Bioni façade paint in a new customer and service building
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June 2007
Bioni Clean with a new and improved composition
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April 2nd 2007
Bioni Nature and Bioni Hygienic receive environmental awards from Singapore
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April 2007
Bioni exhibits for the second time in succession at the WaBoLu Conference organised by the German Federal Environmental Agency
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April 2007
Visit Bioni at the 6th NRW Hygiene and Health Conference
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February 18th 2007
Farben Gnatz include Bioni in its product range
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February 3rd 2007
North-Rhine-Westphalia presents Bioni at the second largest medical fair in the world
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January 2007
Bioni image brochure now available in French and Italian
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November 2006
Bioni exhibits at the NanoSolutions fair in Cologne
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October 2006
Bioni supplies protective coatings for "The Palm"
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September 2006
Bioni Hygienic – latest tests confirm outstanding durability against bacteria and germs
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August 2006
40,000 m² building facades - Bioni receives a major order from Dubai
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August 2006
Bioni Nature in the “Deutsches Museum”
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18th January 2006
Bioni Nature and Bioni Hygienic are awarded the certificate "Environmentally Medically Recommended
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January 15th 2006
German TV about Bioni Coatings
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October 12th 2005
The German radio station Deutschlandfunk reports on Bioni coatings more…
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September 27th 2005
Mould / Nanotechnology Conference in Dubai - Bioni launches new coatings more…
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September 26th 2005
Deutsche Presseagentur (dpa), Google News, Yahoo News, Handelsblatt Online as well as 30 other sources publish Bioni press release
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September 2005
Bioni coatings protect 30,000 m² of facade against attack by algae and moss on buildings owned by the Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group
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July / August 2005
The German Verband der Wohnungswirtschaft (Housing Industry Association) reports in its in-house magazine on how Bioni coatings prevent algae attacking wall insulating bonded systems
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February 27th F2005
Bioni Managing Director Mr. Sven Knoll takes part in a trade delegation led by German Chancellor Schröder to the Gulf region
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July 27th J2009
New tinting system for Bioni paints

The principle distinguishing feature of Bioni paints is their technical superiority. All the same, the desire for innovative solutions ought never to entail sacrificing design opportunities, particularly in the case of the surfaces of buildings. In order to increase the architect’s and developer’s flexibility in developing creative solutions, Bioni has now introduced a new tinting system that includes a range of 1750 different shades. The new system was created by CPS Color, one of the leading suppliers of integrated mixed-system solutions to the paint and lacquer industry.

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July 13th 2009
New Bioni branch in the United Arab Emirates

Ras Al Khaimah (abbreviated to RAK) is one of seven emirates in the desert state of UAE, but considerably less well known than the emirates Dubai and Abu Dhabi, famed for their striking mega construction projects. Current projects in the emirate, that consists of two separate parts, caused Bioni to apply for a commercial licence in RAK. The branch “Bioni CS GmbH FZE” was officially recorded in the emirate’s commercial register on July 13th 2009 marking a further step towards expanding Bioni’s activities in the region.

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May 8th 2009
Bioni accompanies Hessia’s minister-president Roland Koch to the Gulf region

Hessia’s minister-president Roland Koch visited the Gulf region from April 30th to May 8th in order to expand economic and technological contacts. The nine-day visit included Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Together with members of Hessia’s local parliament, representatives from the fields of business and technology, including a member of the Bioni management team, took part in the visit.

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January 2009
Bioni supplies the paint for the interior of four hospitals in Moscow

Bioni already received the order from the Moscow city government in 2007. The project was however not carried out until the winter of 2008/2009. The city of Moscow ordered the interior paint Bioni Hygenic especially developed for hygienically sensitive areas to cover internal areas of almost 150,000 square metres. The innovative and germ-resistant coatings were used in four municipal hospitals and clinics in this metropolis with its 10.5 million inhabitants.

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November 12th 2008
ZDF “Abenteuer Wissen” (TV science programme) reports on Bioni’s nano-paint

Nano-paint to counter a build-up of mould and mildew
Nano-technology is not only in use already in medicine. Anyone dealing with this subject will soon discover that the nano-revolution has already started. Chemists, biologists, doctors and IT specialists are all working closely together on the development of new nano-materials. The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology has already developed a paint with the aid of nano-silver particles that provides long-term protection against mould and mildew. The properties of silver as a disinfectant have been known since the middle ages. The advantage of nano-silver particles lies in the fact that, due to the larger area covered by the nano-particles, less silver is required. The nano-silver particles destroy the protein in the cell wall of the fungus spores and they die off... to the ZDF homepage on the programme “Abenteuer Wissen”

» to the ZDF homepage on the programme “Abenteuer Wissen”
» Watch the programme

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News January 18th 2006 until October 2008 COMING SOON.

January 18th 2006
Bioni Nature and Bioni Hygienic are awarded the certificate "Environmentally Medically Recommended

- Once again, Bioni CS GmbH's interior coatings Bioni Nature and Bioni Hygienic have set new standards in the marketplace for paints in hygiene, health and the environment and have been awarded the certificate "Environmentally Medically Recommended" by the German Committee for Environmental Medicine and Building Hygiene of the Society of Hygiene, Environmental and Public Health Sciences (GHU). Since the second quarter of 2002, this certificate has been presented and written about by the Chief Editor of Environmental Medicine Magazine ("Wohnmedizin"). It rates products by considering criteria such as health side effects, low emissions, positive effects on room climate and comfort, improvement in air quality, reduction in level of room noise, beneficial environmental psychological aspects or improvement in environmental satisfaction, comfort and environmental health. The Committee for Environmental Medicine and Building Hygiene was founded in 1995 as a part of the Society of Hygiene, Environmental and Public Health Sciences (GHU). At the same time, the GHU took over Environmental Medicine Magazine ("Wohnmedizin"), a periodical with a long tradition, dealing with environmental medicine and building hygiene. Environmental Medicine Magazine is published in six issues annually and includes overviews of state-of-the-art environmental medicine, up-to-the-minute information on new discoveries and projects in healthy building and the home, as well as analysis of scientific work in this area.

Read the press release here (20 KB)

January 15th 2006
Nanotechnology in the homes

The ARD is a German television station operating under public law achieving market share of an average of more than 55 percent in radio and over 28 percent in television. These figures make the ARD the leader in Germany. It is the world's largest non-commercial broadcaster, with a budget of around 6.1 billion euros and a permanent staff of approximately 23,800.

» www.wdr.de

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October 12th 2005
On the 12th October the German radio station Deutschlandfunk reported on the new Bioni antimicrobial coatings in its science programme "Umwelt und Landwirtschaft" (Environment and Agriculture).

The entire report by Gerhard Trey can be downloaded here either as an audio file or as a text file, or can be accessed from Deutschlandfunk:

» Listen to the programme (audio file) (776 KB)

Show the programme as PDF (455 KB)

September 27th 2005
Nanotechnology - Mould / Nanotechnology Conference in Dubai - Bioni launches innovations:

In Dubai, just as elsewhere in the world, contamination of the air in interiors as well as the formation of mould and mildew in buildings is a problem. This rapidly developing metropolitan centre in the Gulf region is constantly in the news; reports in the press and other media focus on the tremendous amount of construction activity taking place there and on the many building projects of truly immense proportions. But even this desert kingdom in the United Arab Emirates has a problem with mould and mildew. Walls and ceilings cooled by air conditioning units combined with high humidity create ideal conditions for the propagation of mould and mildew in hot climates.

In order to give professionals the opportunity to learn more about the formation of mould and mildew in buildings, its causes, the risks associated with it as well as new methods to prevent it, the national building authority of the Emirate of Dubai - the Dubai Municipality - hosted a conference entitled "Nanotechnology - a Key Technology of the 21st Century - a breakthrough in the fight against mould in buildings" on 27th September 2005.

The event, at which Dr. med. habil. Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Bischof (an expert on climatology within buildings at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena Germany), the chemist Mr. Helmut Schmid (Head of the Department for Nanotechnology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology) and the businessman Mr. Sven Knoll (Managing Director of Bioni CS GmbH) were speakers (please see the picture below) was aimed at architects, construction engineers, construction companies, developers, the medical community as well as journalists.

Directly after the seminar, Bioni won an important new customer in Dubai. The contract to provide Bioni Hygienic interior coating to refurbish the Dubai National Blood Bank at the Al Wasl Hospital was awarded to the company by the architects and planners Al Hashemi. Bioni is currently responding to enquiries relating to further projects.

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September 26th 2005
Deutsche Presseagentur (dpa), Google News, Yahoo News, Handelsblatt Online and more than 30 other sources publish Bioni press release

On September 26th Bioni and the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology issued a joint press release with the title: News from the Field of Nanotechnology: Diminutives Defeat Mould, Mildew, Algae and Hospital Bacteria

The response was overwhelming. Over 30 media sources in Germany, Austria and Switzerland picked up the story; some of the newspapers, periodicals and online sources and institutions which reported on Bioni are listed below.

• Welt-Online
• Handelsblatt-Online
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Online
• Badische Neueste Nachrichten
• Hamburger Abendblatt
• Ministry of the Interior German State of Baden-Württemberg
• Baulinks.de
• Web.de
• Google-News
• Yahoo-News
• Lycos.de
• Greenpeace Magazine
• Salzburger Nachrichten
• AOK Rheinland
• Der Grüne Punkt
• News.de
• Information Service for Science

Several of the articles listed can be viewed and downloaded - please
go to » Press Reports

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September 2005
Bioni coatings protect 30,000 m² of facade against attack by algae and moss on buildings owned by the Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group

With the purchase of 153,000 apartments from E.on, the Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group became Europe's largest and most significant housing corporation. Within their portfolio of currently 233,000 apartments, it is likely that at least some of the facades of the buildings will be affected by a phenomenon which has been on the increase in recent years - attack by green algae and moss.

The Deutsche Annington Group is well acquainted with Bioni products and has already benefited from them; the coatings were applied to remedy some of their facades which were seriously affected by green moss and algae. This year the Group made the decision to use Bioni not only to remedy already affected facades; they now also use the products as a preventative measure. A modernisation program implemented in 2005 saw Bioni deliver the top coating for the wall insulating bonded systems which were applied. The total area treated in the course of the project was over 30,000 m².

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July / August 2005
The German Verband der Wohnungswirtschaft (Housing Industry Association) reported in its in-house magazine on how Bioni coatings are able to prevent algae attacking wall insulating bonded systems

The Rheinland-Westfalia section of the Housing Industry Association (the German abbreviation is VdW) is one of the most important organisations of its kind in Germany. This association represents 474 housing companies providing advice, monitoring and general representation. Together with the VdW Southwest, an independent regional association representing over 200 housing companies with a portfolio of over 400,000 apartments the Rheinland-Westfalia VdW publishes a magazine aimed at the entire membership. In addition to important developments in the housing market the magazine reports on projects of interest undertaken by association members.

In the July/August edition a two page report was published on the problem of algae formation on wall insulating bonded systems installed on the facades of buildings belonging to the Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group. The solution, provided by Bioni's facade coating was described.

The entire report entitled:
Will nanotechnology make algae on facades a thing of the past?
can be downloaded here. » VdW report

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February 27th 2005
Bioni CS strikes positive balance after the business tour with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to the Gulf region.

After returning from the United Arab Emirates - last stop of the 7-dayslong journey of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder with economic leaders from FRG to the Gulf region - Sven Knoll, CEO of Bioni CS GmbH, Oberhausen strikes a positive point balance. As a member of the delegation, which included highranking CEOs and board directors from industry and commerce like Siemens, EnBW, Thyssen-Krupp, ABB, Uhde etc., Mr. Knoll summed up, that Bioni was capable to establish new business connections as well as administer and intensify already existing business contacts in Kuwait and the UAE.

Her Highness Sheika Lubna Al Qasimi - Minister for Planing and Economy of the United Arab Emirates - and Sven Knoll - CEO of Bioni CS in the Emirates Palace (Abu Dhabi)

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