About Excellence Coatings
Our goal is to develop and sell innovative, PFAS-free easy-to-clean additives and coatings for the specific use cases of our customers. We want to solve the needs of our customers! A priority for us is to make PFAS obsolete to create a cleaner planet. Furthermore, we are working on biobased coatings and materials, currently supported by the program „Grüne Gründungen.NRW“.
To achieve this, Excellence Coatings was founded in February 2022 by Dr. Deniz Dogan, David Wedegärtner and Sven Wauschkuhn. Excellence Coatings is a start-up from Paderborn University, where our unique know-how was developed in the past seven years.
Biobased Surfaces
The project “Biobased Surfaces – Development of a biobased and low-carbon coating prototype” is supported through the Grüne Gründungen.NRW programme and co-financed by the European Union (EFRE/JTF) and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The project aims to develop a radiation-curable coating prototype for the furniture industry with a high biobased carbon content, reducing CO₂ emissions and dependence on fossil raw materials. The work includes the evaluation of biobased raw materials, formulation development, and validation together with industrial partners.
Expected results include a technically and economically viable prototype coating with improved sustainability performance and measurable environmental impact, supporting innovation in sustainable materials and the environmental economy in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Our Team
Dr. Deniz Dogan
Co-founder and Head of Research & Development
- d.dogan@excellence-coatings.de
Dr. David Wedegärtner
Co-founder and Head of Production
- d.wedegaertner@excellence-coatings.de
Sven Wauschkuhn
Co-founder and Head of Business Development
- s.wauschkuhn@excellence-coatings.de
Partners
Excellence Coatings is a spin-off from Paderborn University. We use the laboratories of the university and have an office at the facilities of the university’s start-up accelerator, TecUP.
We are also part of the six-month start-up support program of Chemstars NRW, an initiative of market-leading companies from the chemical industry and the German chemical industry association North Rhine-Westfalia (VCI NRW).
Excellence Coatings was founded during the project Nanodots Waterline which was supported in the program EXIST Transfer of Research, a program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) supporting outstanding research oriented projects that involve expensive and high-risk resource development.
