This startup manufactures nano-ceramic coatings that enhance the durability of concrete and steel infrastructure while significantly reducing microbial pathogens in food and water systems. Their products enable businesses to minimize asset preservation costs and extend maintenance intervals, addressing the challenges of infrastructure degradation and contamination.
Funding
$4.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Concrete and steel infrastructure faces constant degradation from corrosion, environmental factors, and microbial contamination, leading to high maintenance costs and shortened lifespans. Traditional organic coatings often fail to provide long-term protection due to their inability to chemically bond with inorganic surfaces like concrete, resulting in delamination and the need for frequent reapplication.
Solution
Zirconia provides a range of nano-ceramic coatings designed to enhance the durability and longevity of concrete and steel infrastructure while minimizing microbial pathogens. Their coatings chemically bond with concrete and steel surfaces, creating a protective alumina-silicate composite layer that is highly resistant to corrosion, carbonation, salts, UV light, and freeze-thaw cycles. This "skin of granite" approach effectively eliminates porosity, fixes cracks, and restores the surface, providing a virtually immune barrier against environmental attack. Zirconia's technology extends maintenance intervals, reduces downtime, and offers a sustainable solution for infrastructure preservation.
Target Audience
Zirconia's primary customers include construction companies, infrastructure maintenance providers, food manufacturers, and government entities responsible for maintaining concrete and steel assets.
Features
- CeramycGuard™: An inorganic coating technology that transforms the surface layer of concrete into a corrosion-resistant alumina-silicate composite.
- Ceramic System PoreBlocker™: Utilizes colloidal silica technology to purge or encapsulate contaminants in concrete, creating a denser, harder surface for enhanced durability.
- Ceramic System Accelerator™: Employs colloidal silica to optimize concrete surfaces, allowing for earlier application of CeramycGuard™ coatings (5-7 days vs. 28 days).
- ComposiCoat BP™ Coating System: A silane-modified urethane hybrid topcoat that chemically bonds with CeramycGuard™, providing superior chemical and physical wear resistance.
- CG HeatShield™: A ceramic-silicone composite top-coating system engineered to preserve rocket launch pads, offering resistance to heat, blast force, and chemical attack.
- Biologically impervious coatings that are antimicrobial and disallow biofilm formation.
- Chemically bonded systems that will not delaminate.
- Resistance to acids and other corrosive chemicals.