With the „Bavaria’s Best 50“ competition, the Bavarian State Ministry honors particularly high-growth medium-sized companies each year that have been able to increase the number of their employees and their sales above average in recent years.

In 2021, Microcoat is one of the award winners. At the award ceremony in munich in early October, our Managing Director Dr. Johannes Reich accepted the prize, which was handovered by Prof. Dr. Edenhofer and State Secretary Roland Weigert.

In September 2021 three new trainees started their apprenticeship at Microcoat Biotechnologie GmbH in Bernried. In addition to the training of biological laboratory technicians, Microcoat also offers training in office management assistants. During the training period, the trainees pass through various departments within the company getting know all departmental processes.

For our rapid growing company, which now has more than 200 employees, training young people has become an important process for our company. „Our goal is, to offer good training and personal development for each individual trainee. We want to retain our skilled workers after their training and can demonstrate an excellent takeover rate,“ said Managing Director Dr. Johannes Reich, who welcomed the new trainees and wished them a good start.

Addressing the Challenges of Factor H and the Related Proteins

A family affair: addressing the challenges of Factor H and the related proteins., by Felix Poppelaars, Elena Goicoechea De Jorge, Ilse Jongerius, Antje J Baeumner, Mark-Steven Steiner, Mihály Józsi, Erik Toonen, Diana Pauly, published in Frontiers in Immunology, section Molecular Innate Immunity.

Baeumner A: POCT-NeutCov – neutralisierende Antikörper bestimmen. Management & Krankenhaus . 2021; 40 (3): 28.

Microcoat is collaborating with the University of Regensburg and Mikrogen GmbH to develop a rapid diagnostic test for the detection of COVID-19 immunity.

Newspaper article from Weilheimer Tagblatt, 01 March 2021

Bernried – In times of pandemic, the company „Microcoat“ regularly orders larger batches of CE-certified FFP2 protective masks for its employees. In its most recent order, the Bernried-based biotechnology company ordered more than 1,000 masks – namely for the „Soziale Netz Bernried“ (Bernried Social Network). At the local neighborhood help center, which primarily looks after senior citizens, they were delighted with the donation in kind. “ Senior citizens sometimes can’t just quickly drive to the pharmacy and get masks,“ explained Ingried Klemm-Beyer, second president of „SoNe Bernried,“ at the handover of the donation in the office of Mayor Georg Malterer.

The FFP2 masks are to be distributed as needed and saved for a possible larger vaccination campaign in Bernried. Whether such a vaccination collection event is possible still needs to be clarified. Internally, however, planning for this is already underway. In Bernried, so stated „SoNe“ chairman Peter steel, live nevertheless scarcely 200 seniors at the age over 80 years. A concentrated vaccination campaign would therefore make perfect sense: „And the masks would fit the bill perfectly,“ said Stahl.

Activities of the „SoNe“ such as the popular „Wednesday Cinema“ are currently severely restricted or not possible due to the pandemic. For the target group, this means a loss of quality of life. „For the seniors, it’s about time there was some relaxation,“ Klemm-Beyer says. „Many feel very lonely.“ the supply of food and groceries is „super solved“ in Bernried via various delivery services, but the seniors simply lack social contacts: „These cannot be replaced by telephone calls either,“ says Klemm-Beyer.

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After the latest developments in the market and inviting current and potential customers, we have considered expanding into the Chinese market.

This step requires a lot of effort and a careful preparation of all aspects that belong to such a progress.

As it is the first time that we are taking such a leap, we are grateful for the partnership with the Chamber of Commerce and the subsidy programme „Go International“.

This project is financially supported by the ERDF.