German-based Adinotec AG is in advanced talks with the Maltese authorities on the setting up of a factory in Malta to produce dietary supplements to help people suffering from problems in their immune system, group CEO Edmund Krix said today.

Adinotec , formerly known as Neosino Nanotechnologies AG, already has operations in Germany and Austria. It is mostly involved in the production of cosmetics and dietary products for the pharma industry.

The Dietary Supplement division, which is setting up shop in Malta, offers nanosiliceo and nanosilimagna capsules made of Silicon-di-oxid, Magnesium and Calcium.

Mr Krix said the new products would be especially helpful to patients suffering from cancer or AIDS who would need to protect and strengthen their immune system.

He could not, as this stage, give details on the level or investment and employment in Malta, other than to say that this would be a multi-million euro project.

Mr Krix is also heading another company which last month set up a factory at Hal Far producing polymer material for road building.

He said Poligate was producing a polymer product which had been proved to strengthen the foundations of roads, giving them a substantially longer life. The product was proved during the rebuilding of part of a highway linking Austria and Italy and the company has won orders to supply road contractors involved in major projects in Libya, which was one of the reasons why it opted to set up a factory in Malta. The factory employs 30 people.