DGAP-News: NANOGATE AG: Production facilities for N-Metals

DGAP-News: NANOGATE AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous NANOGATE AG: Production facilities for N-Metals Chrome technology platform opened 09.09.2016 / 13:22 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanogate AG: Production facilities for N-Metals Chrome technology platform opened New design worlds for plastic surfaces with chrome look - Launch of production facilities in Neunkirchen - One of the largest technology investments in the company's history - Significant sales and earnings stimulus expected over the medium term - First projects to begin in 2017 Göttelborn, Germany, 9 September 2016. Nanogate AG, a leading international integrated systems provider for high-performance surfaces, today officially commenced operation of its production facility for the new N-Metals Chrome technology platform in Neunkirchen. With applications for multifunctional surfaces with a chrome look, the Group is targeting an attractive market with a volume in the three-figure million range. N-Metals Chrome is a globally leading technology and one that is in urgent demand from numerous customers as an alternative to traditional processes. The first projects are expected to begin 2017. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Premier of the State of Saarland: "The opening of Nanogate AG's new centre of excellence for metal surfaces in Neunkirchen is a clear example of a Saarland success story, which began in 1999 with a small spin-off of the Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken. Nanogate AG's impressive development, with its promising, innovative products, underlines the future viability of this industry. With this investment, the company is making a clear commitment to the Saarland." Nanogate AG's CEO, Ralf Zastrau, commented: "The launch of the centre of excellence for our N-Metals Chrome technology platform in Neunkirchen is a milestone for the Group: Nanogate is providing its customers with new design worlds for plastic surfaces with a chrome look, thereby offering a globally leading technology. We therefore expect significant sales potential for our new applications. Establishment of the site and of the new platform as part of our Phase5 growth strategy represents one of the largest technology investments in our company's history. We anticipate a significant boost in sales and earnings over the medium term. The new technology puts Nanogate in an outstanding position when it comes to multifunctional surfaces of the highest optical quality both in plastics and metals." Diverse areas of application for N-Metals Chrome High-quality and multifunctional metal coatings with a chrome look are in demand for numerous products, in particular those relating to car manufacturing, white goods, sanitary products as well as design elements of all kinds. N-Metals Chrome is more cost effective, more environmentally friendly and offers new application possibilities over existing electroplating applications. Enhancement by Nanogate allows for numerous additional functions, including radar transparency, touch sensitivity (capacitive) and translucency, for example. The technology also makes no use of environmentally damaging materials such as chromium trioxide, and therefore meets the latest environmental guidelines in line with the European REACH regulation. Nanogate is therefore providing the alternative, which is in strong demand from the market, to conventional chrome coating processes. Coatings with N-Metals Chrome are also corrosion-resistant and shatterproof, which offers significant safety advantages, particularly in car manufacturing. The new technology allows Nanogate to equip various substrates - above all plastics - with high-quality, multifunctional surfaces with a chrome-like look and in perfect optical quality. The new coating method is based on the combination of environmentally friendly PVD thin-film technology and UV- based wet-chemical coatings. Nanogate has invested more than EUR 10 million in the site and the new technology. Official inauguration of the centre of excellence The production line for N-Metals Chrome was opened in Neunkirchen today in the presence of numerous guests, customers and business partners of the Group. Guests of honour included Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Premier of the State of Saarland, and Jürgen Fried, Mayor of the town of Neunkirchen. Nanogate has located its new centre of excellence at the Neunkirchen site, not far from the Group's headquarters in Göttelborn. A total of 3,100 square metres of hall and production area, as well as 1,000 square metres for offices and a development centre have been created over the past eighteen months on the site previously occupied by a haulage company. In the process, an existing hall was modernised and a new hall constructed. The premises of up to 66,000 square metres offer space for further expansion. Press photos to download: N-Metals Chrome production line: http://www.nanogate.de/mediapool/2394/ anlage.jpg Production facility (exterior ciew): http://www.nanogate.de/mediapool/2395/ neunkirchen.jpg Nanogate on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nanogate_ag If you have any queries, please contact: Christian Dose (financial press and investors) Nanogate AG Cortent Kommunikation AG Zum Schacht 3 Tel. +49 (0)69 5770 300 0 66287 Göttelborn nanogate@cortent.de Germany www.nanogate.com Liane Stieler-Joachim Nanogate AG Tel. +49 (0)6825 9591 220 liane.stieler-joachim@nanogate.com Nanogate AG: Nanogate (ISIN DE000A0JKHC9) is a leading international integrated systems provider for high-performance surfaces. The Group, which is based in Göttelborn (Saarland), enables the programming and integration of additional properties - such as non-stick, scratchproof and anti-corrosive - into materials and surfaces as well as enhanced plastic components. True to its slogan 'A world of new surfaces', Nanogate opens up the diverse possibilities of multifunctional surfaces based on new materials for companies in a wide range of industries. Nanogate provides its customers with technologically and optically high- quality systems. To do so, the company uses its extensive expertise in innovative materials. The aim is to improve customers' products and processes by means of high-performance surfaces while achieving environmental benefits. The Group concentrates on attractive sectors such as automotive/transport, mechanical/plant engineering, buildings/interiors and sport/leisure as well as on the strategic growth areas of advanced polymers and advanced metals. Nanogate has a unique combination of extensive materials expertise paired with comprehensive, first-class process and production know-how. As a systems provider, Nanogate offers services throughout the entire value chain, from the purchase of raw materials, to the synthesis and formulation of the material systems, right through to the enhancement and production of the finished surfaces. The Group focuses primarily on optically high-quality plastic and metal coatings for all surface types. Its value drivers are the opening up of new, international markets, the development of new applications for the strategic growth areas of advanced polymers (innovative plastics, e.g. glazing) and advanced metals (innovative metal enhancements) as well as external growth. The Nanogate Group has first-class references (e.g. Airbus, Audi, August Brötje, BMW, BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte, Daimler, FILA, Jaguar, Junkers, Porsche, Volkswagen). Several hundred projects have already gone into mass production. The company also has strategic partnerships with many international corporations. Nanogate comprises Eurogard B.V., GfO Gesellschaft für Oberflächentechnik AG, Nanogate Industrial Solutions GmbH, Nanogate Textile & Care Systems GmbH, Nanogate Glazing Systems B.V. and Vogler GmbH, as well as majority stakes in Plastic-Design GmbH and Walter Goletz GmbH. There are also subsidiaries in the US and in Turkey. Disclaimer: This publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor an invitation to buy securities. The shares in Nanogate AG (the "Shares") may not be offered or sold in the United States or to or for the account or benefit of "U.S. persons" (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")). No offer or sale of transferable securities is being made to the public outside Germany. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09.09.2016 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: NANOGATE AG Zum Schacht 3 66287 Göttelborn Germany Phone: +49 (0)6825/95 91 0 Fax: +49 (0)6825/95 91 852 E-mail: nanogate@cortent.de Internet: www.nanogate.de ISIN: DE000A0JKHC9 WKN: A0JKHC Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange; Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500521 09.09.2016