HeiQ Group

Founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (LSE:HEIQ).

HeiQ is a leader in textile and materials innovation creating some of the most effective, durable and high-performance technologies on the market today. HeiQ strives to improve the lives of billions of people through pioneering textiles and materials innovation. Combining three areas of expertise – scientific research, specialty materials manufacturing and consumer ingredient branding – HeiQ is the ideal innovation partner to create differentiating and sustainable products and capture the added value at the point of sale. With its 14 offices, 7 manufacturing sites and 7 R&D hubs, HeiQ today employs 190 professionals. It has a total capacity of 45’000 tons of specialty chemicals per year and serves industrial over 1000 customers in over 60 countries. Today, HeiQ’s consumer goods and medical devices can be found in 56 countries.

HeiQ was founded by Carlo Centonze and Dr Murray Height during a hike in the Swiss Alps.

Quick facts

• Operating Status: Active

• Carlo Centonze (CEO and co-founder)
• Dr Murray Height (Co-founder, Chief Science Officer)

HeiQ provides the following services:

Marketing and Branding Services

The company offers support to partners and businesses through their Ingredient Branding & Marketing – HeiQ’s products come with high quality brands to simplify the communication to the consumer.

They can help leverage on the added value from HeiQ in products and therefore provide tools to draw a line between commodity applications and their partners’ HeiQ functionalized high-tech product.

Testing Services

Their recently created new laboratory enables them to perform numerous tests to evaluate the high performance of their technologies. Following test methods are offered for textiles:

· Repellency performance test methoods

· Evaporation / Wicking / Drop test methods

· Odor control test methods

· Friction test methods

· UPF test methods

The tests validate and document the HeiQ technology performance in all kind of product applications.

Regulatory Affairs Services

HeiQ’s regulatory affairs professionals provide regulatory advice with regard to product testing and registration requirements. HeiQ is an expert in understanding and complying with all the relevant regulations.

HeiQ regulatory affair services include:

· Access to HeiQ’s portfolio of regulatory approvals and quality label

· Assessment of regulatory requirements during project planning and application development phase

· Regulatory review of your marketing claims

· Support for regulatory reviews with agencies

Technical Support Services

HeiQ’s technical experts advise on the following:

· Implementation of HeiQ Technologies

· Process development (on-site or in HeiQ laboratories) for new articles or effects

· Process optimisation (existing production)

· Troubleshooting

· On-site support by our network of technical experts

Product Development Services

HeiQ’s product development service is designed to help companies quickly identify, target and manufacture novel applications with HeiQ additives. By utilizing the broad expertise of HeiQ’s Research Network, own R&D service provides companies with the fastest way to turn new application concepts into blockbuster innovations.

Outsourcing R&D is gaining traction in the industry, as the need to bring new products to market faster intensifies. HeiQ’s series of novel high performance additives and HeiQ’s unique ability to draw on expertise across a wide range of disciplines leads to truly innovative products.

HeiQ’s product development services provides a reliable, high-quality addition to your in-house resources of R&D.