June 20, 2006 – Nanophase Technologies, a developer of nanomaterials and advanced nanoengineered products, announced a new mutually exclusive supply agreement with BASF to supply patent-pending surface engineered nanoparticles for current and future products for BASF’s Z-COTE MAX brand. The new supply agreement is multi-year with automatic renewals and is in addition to the company’s current agreement with BASF for the Z-COTE brand.
Using a platform of patented and proprietary integrated nanomaterial technologies, Nanophase creates products with unique performance attributes and delivers commercial quantity and quality nanoparticles, coated nanoparticles, and nanoparticle dispersions in a variety of media.