Certifications & listings
What is formally documented about NanoEFX — patents, a United Nations technology listing and safety documentation — with the status of each stated plainly, including where a document is available on request rather than published here. ECO EFX holds no ISO 9001 or ISO/IEC 27001 certificate of its own; what that means is explained below.
What exists, and what each one means
| Item | What it covers | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 9001 · ISO/IEC 27001 | ECO EFX Solutions GmbH holds no ISO 9001 or ISO/IEC 27001 certificate of its own. Business processes and website enquiries are handled in Zoho One, a suite of Zoho cloud services; Zoho’s management systems are certified to both standards by BSI (Zoho compliance page). Internal office work also uses Microsoft 365, whose services are in scope of Microsoft’s ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. These are the providers’ certificates for their own management systems: they do not certify ECO EFX, how NanoEFX is made, or how it performs. Details | No own certificate — providers’ certificates, linked |
| UNIDO STePP listing | Listed on the Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform operated by UNIDO ITPO Tokyo. A listing marks the technology as relevant to sustainable industrial development; it is not a performance test. | Published listing — publicly verifiable |
| Patents | The underlying technology is patented in Japan (2018) and in the United States (2021), as recorded in the industry–university joint research report. | Patent numbers available on request |
| REACH | Safety data sheet prepared under the REACH Regulation (EC) 1907/2006. Section 15 records that the mixture contains no substance on REACH Annex XVII (restrictions), Annex XIV (authorisation) or the Candidate List (SVHC). No chemical safety assessment has been carried out. | Section 15 of the safety data sheet — available on request |
| Safety data sheets | Safety data sheets exist in EU, UN, US and UK formats, in several languages, covering handling, storage and disposal. | Available on request |
| Engine safety | A marine main engine opened after 1,875 operating hours and inspected by the manufacturer’s service agent: no corrosion, no abnormality. | See the teardown |
Independent listing: the NanoEFX entry on UNIDO ITPO Tokyo’s Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform is public and can be checked without going through us — view the STePP listing. Background on the relationship is on the Partners & UNIDO page.
A certificate is not a result
Quality certifications, technology listings and patents describe how a product is made, listed and protected. None of them says how much fuel it saves on your fleet — and any supplier who presents them as if they did is telling you something other than the truth.
ISO standards are about process
ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 describe how an organisation manages quality and information security, but ECO EFX does not hold them itself — and they make no statement about fuel efficiency or emissions.
A UNIDO listing is a listing, not a test
It marks the technology as relevant to sustainable industrial development. It is not an efficiency measurement and does not certify performance.
A patent is about novelty
Patents establish that the technology is new and protectable. They do not establish that it works to any particular degree.
Performance lives elsewhere
For performance, read the trials, the measurement methodology and the teardown — where the method and the limits are stated alongside every number.