Inhibit Coatings was delighted to host Hon Dr. Megan Woods, the NZ Minister of Research, Science and Innovation, for a tour around our laboratory. The team displayed the full variety of coatings for the minister, including our potent antiviral coating, capable of destroying 99.9% of Human Coronavirus in two hours. https://www.wellingtonuniventures.nz/news/a-ministerial-visit/

Inhibit Coatings made NZ television tonight discussing its ground-breaking antiviral coatings with One News’ Imogen Wells. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/kiwi-scientists-develop-surface-coating-which-kills-covid-19

Inhibit Coatings added one more team member to our roster this week, welcome our new operations manager, Stephen Fitzer. Stephen has experience in both project and production environments. He graduated with an MSc in Engineering Project Management and previously worked on collaborative, complex, and innovative research projects.

Inhibit Coatings was delighted to be featured by Technology Valley Forum, an independent organisation supporting innovations right here in Wellington’s own Technology Valley. https://technologyvalley.nz/news/silver-particles-basis-of-global-intellectual-property-business/

Inhibit Coatings is delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Norman Barry Foundation Breakthrough Innovator Award at the 2020 KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards. These awards celebrate the impact of NZ’s leading research innovations and we are incredibly grateful to have been recognised amongst them. https://kiwinet.org.nz/News/KiwiNet_2020_Awards_winners_announced

Inhibit Coatings has received $350,000 from MBIE’s COVID Innovation Acceleration Fund to assist in the development of antiviral coatings for high-risk areas. https://www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and-technology/science-and-innovation/funding-information-and-opportunities/investment-funds/covid-19-innovation-acceleration-fund/

Wellington UniVentures has a great write up on Inhibit Coatings and our most recent capital raise. https://www.wellingtonuniventures.nz/news/boosting-food-safety/

We are happy to announce that we have been named one of Hello Tomorrow’s Deep Tech Pioneers! Selected among more than 5,000 startups from 128 different countries that applied to the Global Challenge. Come and meet us at the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit in Paris on 12th-13th March 2020. https://hello-tomorrow.org/

Inhibit Coatings is excited to announce its selection in the latest Plug and Play innovation platform and accelerator program in San Fransisco, California. Inhibit was chosen to participate in the program alongside 15 other SMEs out of an application pool of over 1,000. https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/new-materials/

We are proud to announce our selection as a 2019 TechConnect Innovation Awardee for the third year running. https://www.techconnectworld.com/World2019/participate/innovation/awards.html