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Hexigone
Sustainable, smart and highly effective corrosion inhibitors. Our customers create safer and more sustainable communities through chemically intelligent coatings.
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Hexigone Inhibitors develops and manufactures pigments that are free of chrome, designed to prevent corrosion.
Hexigone Inhibitors Ltd was formed in June 2016 as a result of winning the Armourers & Brasiers' 2016 Materials Science Venture Prize for its smart release Cr(VI)-free corrosion inhibitor for coated steel products. The innovation addresses an urgent need of the coil coating industry as the leading inhibitor products based on Cr(VI) will be banned by the EU in 2019 due to toxicity.
Since it's formation in June 2016 the team have gone on to leverage £50k in seed investment, a Royal Society Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (£30k) and a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship (£60k). The technology is patented and is currently in the PCT phase. During 2017 it is expected that 1x doctoral level FTE will be created in the Swansea region. 2019 - The company now has several employees based in the Swansea region, has raised over £1m in private investment and is working globally with 20 international partners https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47468201?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c52ew8q50z2t/wales-business&link_location=live-reporting-story One of the original team has now become a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at Swansea University
1 May 2025 to 30 Jun 2026
Corrosion costs the world economy an estimated $2.5 trillion dollars every year and is responsible for 3.2% of the worlds CO2 emissions. Traditional inhibitors used to combat corrosion are based on toxic or critical raw materials. However, Hexigone Inhibitors, a highly innovative UK SME based in South Wales, provides a patented new-to-market corrosion inh...
1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023
Hexigone's patented technology is changing the world of corrosion protection with their smart active reservoir technology that increase the lifecycle of assets in a more intelligent manner. Hexigone would like to investigate the use of a raw material that has historically gone to landfill or incineration, processing it into their intelli-ion technology. T...
28 Mar 2019 to 28 Jun 2022
MaCRoSCoPIC
1 Oct 2017 to 30 Sep 2018
Hexigone and Swansea University are designing a coating that is self healing and 'intelligent' as it will only heal itself when the coating is compromised. The coating will enable a longer lifespan of the product and is more environmentally friendly than current coatings.
1 Oct 2017 to 31 Mar 2018
Hexigone Inhibitors Ltd is a spin-out company from Swansea University. It was created to commercialise a a high-performance, smart-release, corrosion protection technology that was developed to replace highly toxic chemicals that are currently widely used. The pupose of this project is to develop global business opportunities that will allow Hexigone to e...
