Talk:HeiQ Materials AG

COI tag (August 2021)
User:Lhowarth234 looks to be senior employee of the company. His contributions have also been re-instated by an IP address and it would be reasonable to assume this is same person or someone connected to the company. 10mmsocket (talk) 12:50, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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Origins and Early Years
Carlo Centoze and Murray Height co-founded HeiQ in 2005 after a week of hiking in the Swiss Alps. Inspired by the foul smell of their t-shirts, the pair decided to set up a company that produced material technologies that enable garments to have long-lasting freshness.

Carlo Centoze (CEO of HeiQ) took his master’ degrees in environmental sciences and Forest Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, and earned an executive MBA at the University of St. Gallen. Whilst his partner Murray Height had a long academic career consisting of receiving a Bachelors in Mathematics and Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; A Masters in Chemical Engineering Practice and a PhD in Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge; And an Executive MBA at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Expansions
After three years of establishment, HeiQ raised CHF 6.4 million from Zurcher Kantonalbank and private investors to acquire their first subsidiary, Tex-A-Tec. Two years later in 2010, in a second round of capital raising, HeiQ gained 30 more investors and incited the help of 2 more financial organisations to build HeiQ Australia and invest in additional technology platforms.

2010 was also the year that HeiQ’s first functional material venture, Oilguard, won the Swiss Technology Award for how it allowed fabrics to absorb crude oil and expel seawater in ocean oil spill clean-up projects (article).

By 2017, HeiQ doubled in size through a merger acquisition with Chem-Tex Laboratories Inc, USA, which enabled them to have their own manufacturing capabilities for the first time. In the following two years, HeiQ expanded its global footprint with the establishment of HeiQ Portugal, HeiQ Shanghai and HeiQ Taiwan.

Recent Developments
In 2020, HeiQ became a public limited company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market via a reverse takeover of SPAC Auctus Growth plc (article). HeiQ had also already started broadening their product applications by venturing into the water treatment, industry laundry, detergent, paint, coating packaging sectors, as well as using their HeiQ Viroblock technology to provide health and safety solutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (article). During the Pandemic, HeiQ began developing their own masks and PPE equipment featuring the antiviral and covid resistant HeiQ Viroblock technology. LizaHowarth (talk) 11:08, 16 August 2021 (UTC)