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29/04/2025

Leading the Charge Toward Sustainable Aquaculture: Our CEO’s Insights on “The Future is Circular” Podcast

Aquaculture has rapidly emerged as a crucial sector for global food security, but with this growth comes significant environmental challenges, particularly marine pollution from discarded fishing gear. We're proud to announce that our very own Koen Van Goethem, CEO of I-Coats NV and Chairman of CEN/TC 466 at the European Commission, recently shared his expertise on these pressing issues as a guest on "The Future is Circular" podcast, offering valuable insights into creating a more sustainable future for the industry.

18/03/2020

UNIMATECH & Co. Ltd partnership for Taiwan

We are proud to announce that I-Coats N.V. will start a collaboration with the company UNIMATECH & Co Ltd. for the following markets: Taiwan UNIMATECH & Co Ltd. will represent our Overlay finish and Coating range in the following markets: Rope and wire Netting Narrow weaving, belts and slings Other specific textile applications

21/03/2019

UNIPLAS Corporation partnership for Japan

We are proud to announce that I-Coats N.V. will start a collaboration with the company UNIPLAS Corporation for the Japanese market. UNIPLAS Corporation will represent our Coating range in the following markets: Rope and wire, Netting, Narrow weaving and ther specific textile applications.

25/02/2019

Water repellency of synthetic ropes by a PTFE free coating

A comparison is made to study the effect of coatings on the water repellency of PA, PES and HMPE ropes. To improve the water repellency ICO-REPEL 20 is advised to be used as a single coating and/or in combination with our ICO-THANE’s. ICO-REPEL 20 is completely PTFE free and replaces ICO-REPEL which contained a PTFE, based on C6 technology.

03/10/2016

Introducing ICO-PRINT

For all our coatings, I-Coats offers a range of dispersed pigments which can be added to colour the appearance of the finished ropes: ICO-PRINT. This pigment has an excellent mixing behaviour and stability with our coatings. As a side effect the pigments improve the light fastness or U.V. stability of the total coating system, depending on the colour selected.