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Greenkote

Industrial & Conglomerates 56 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-08-27
BDS-1000 Score 527 /1000 C Tier C - High
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 6.10 Political ↗ 3.40

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Key Findings

  • Settlements: Greenkote-linked public records place the company in the UN settlement-business database in 2020, 2023, and again in the September 2025 update, while a 2019 company-issued safety data sheet used Industrial Zone Barkan, 448200 Barkan, Israel as the supplier address.12345
  • Economic: Greenkote’s 2024 group accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100%-owned subsidiary engaged in diffusion-coating R&D and production, and earlier charges and patent records also document a UK-parent ownership relationship with the Israeli entity.678
  • Political: The public political nexus is documentary rather than rhetorical: parliamentary scrutiny and NGO advocacy focused on Greenkote’s inclusion in the OHCHR settlement database, while no public company response was identified in the reviewed record.910
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of a verified military procurement or digital-services relationship with Israeli state or security bodies.11121314

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameGreenkote
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom (active UK parent company on Companies House; incorporated 14 February 2005)11
HeadquartersBrook Park, Ohio, United States1215
SectorMetal coatings / diffusion-coating and anti-corrosion technology1216
OwnershipPrivate limited company (GREENKOTE LIMITED, formerly GREENKOTE PLC until 27 October 2025); 2024 group accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100%-owned subsidiary; Companies House records no registrable person with significant control.17718
Key Executives / GovernanceMark J. Gore (CEO); Itzhak Rozentul (CTO and co-founder); active directors listed on Companies House include Mark John Gore, Robert Hayim, Robert Alan Richard, and Dion Andrew Jones Vaughan.1920
Israeli-Nexus SummaryThe documented nexus is a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary, historical Barkan-linked operating records, and repeated OHCHR settlement-database listing, without verified evidence of Israeli military or digital-security contracting.17234

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Greenkote is a coatings-technology company whose current public-facing profile is commercial and industrial: anti-corrosion and diffusion-coating systems, powders, and related production technology serving sectors such as aerospace, automotive, rail, power, and military.121622 In the record supplied here, the company’s Israel/Palestine nexus is not driven by public advocacy, lobbying, or verified arms contracting. It is instead driven by documentary evidence of an Israeli subsidiary, historical Israel-linked R&D and operating records, and repeated inclusion in the OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities related to Israeli settlements.1723421823

The strongest evidence sits in the economic and settlement-related record. Greenkote’s audited group accounts for year-end 2024 list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100% owned subsidiary whose business is diffusion-coating R&D and production.7 Companies House charges show the UK parent had pledged all shares of Greenkote (Israel) Limited, supporting a documented ownership relationship, and patent-family materials connect Greenkote-linked technology to Israeli entities and Barkan-linked addresses.6823 Separately, a Greenkote-issued 29 August 2019 safety data sheet names Industrial Zone Barkan, 448200 Barkan, Israel as the supplier address, which is a key documentary lead because Barkan Industrial Park is identified in public reference materials as an industrial zone in the West Bank.12425

The political-domain record is narrower. OHCHR listed Greenkote P.L.C. in the settlement-business database in 2020, updated that listing in 2023, and continued to include the company in the September 2025 update trail.2345 Amnesty International UK publicly named Greenkote in 2020 as one of the UK firms it said should end settlement-related activity, and a UK parliamentary written answer dated 6 August 2025 confirms that Greenkote’s OHCHR listing was raised with ministers.910 The available public record, however, does not identify an official Greenkote statement on the conflict, a public defence of settlement activity, or supportable records of lobbying, PAC activity, donations to Israel-advocacy bodies, or court or sanctions proceedings tied to this issue.91018

Just as important are the limits of the evidence. No public evidence identified a verified Greenkote contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, prison service, border police, or intelligence agencies.11121314 No public evidence identified Greenkote as a digital-services, surveillance, cyber, cloud, or AI provider to Israeli state bodies.121516 Historical secondary-source claims that Greenkote supplied the Israeli army remained unverified in the audits and should not be hardened into fact.26 On the final vetted numbers provided here, that leaves Greenkote with a BRS 527, Tier C (High), driven by settlement-linked economic and political exposure rather than military or digital nexus.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
1999-05-10Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. incorporated in Israel, according to the Israeli company record later reviewed in the audits.21
2004-07-14Patent publication chain later associated with Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. traces to a filing date of 14 July 2004, documenting an early Israeli-linked technology footprint.8
2005-02-14UK parent company incorporated on Companies House.11
2007-03-11Globes reported that Summet Hi-Tech Coatings Ltd. had been acquired by Greenkote around 2005, later renamed Greenkote Israel, and had received a NIS 1.3 million Israeli Chief Scientist grant.27
2008-06-06Companies House records a charge over all shares of Greenkote (Israel) Limited, evidencing the UK parent’s ownership relationship.6
2019-08-29Greenkote-issued safety data sheet lists supplier address as Industrial Zone Barkan, 448200 Barkan, Israel.1
2020-02-12OHCHR’s initial settlement-business database listed Greenkote P.L.C. under activity code (g).5
2020-09-24Greenkote’s inclusion on the UN settlement list was cited in a House of Commons debate.9
2021-02-10Greenkote issued a plant-expansion release centered on Ohio operations and coating demand across civilian sectors; no Israel-specific military end user was identified there.22
2023-06-30OHCHR updated the settlement-business database and again listed Greenkote P.L.C. under activity (g).2
2025-07-02Greenkote filed group accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024, listing Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100%-owned subsidiary engaged in R&D and production.177
2025-09-26OHCHR announced a further database update through 30 April 2025; the UN reporting trail reviewed in the audits continued to include Greenkote P.L.C..34
2025-10-27Companies House filing history shows re-registration from GREENKOTE PLC to GREENKOTE LIMITED.17

Corporate Overview

Greenkote’s current public materials describe a global coatings-technology business headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio, with operations, licensees, and support relationships spanning the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, China/Hong Kong, and South Africa-linked facilities.1215 The UK company remains the key parent entity in the reviewed corporate record: Companies House shows it as active, originally incorporated on 14 February 2005, renamed from GREENKOTE PLC to GREENKOTE LIMITED on 27 October 2025, and having filed group accounts through year-end 2024.1117

The Israeli nexus is established through subsidiary ownership and historical operating documentation rather than through current marketing prominence. Greenkote’s 2024 audited accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary and describe its business as research and development of diffusion-coating technology for metal parts and production of diffusion coatings.7 Israeli registry material reviewed in the audits shows that company as active, incorporated on 10 May 1999, with a Caesarea address and a latest annual report year of 2024.21

Historical and technical records place part of Greenkote’s Israeli footprint in and around Barkan and Ariel. The 2019 safety data sheet carries a Barkan supplier address and Israel contact details.1 Patent-family records reviewed in the audits list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd., Greenkote Ltd, Barkan (IL), and inventor or proprietor links in Ariel (IL) and Barkan (IL).823 A historical Who Profits page also states that Greenkote operated in the Barkan Industrial Zone and had an additional Ariel address, but that page is explicitly historical and was treated in the audits as a lead rather than as stand-alone current-state proof.26

The current public website does not visibly list an Israel location on the locations page.15 That matters as an evidence limit: the record supports an active Israeli entity and historical Barkan-linked documentation, but it does not, by itself, establish that operations remain physically active in Barkan in the same form today.15121

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a named Greenkote contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, the Border Police, or other Israeli security bodies in the reviewed public materials.111314 Greenkote does market coating technology to the Military sector at a general industry level, and company materials describe products used across aerospace and other industrial segments, but the audits did not verify an Israel-specific military product line, an end-user certificate, an export-licence trail, or a public contract linking Greenkote to Israeli forces.16122

Historical secondary-source claims that Greenkote’s customers included the Israeli army or IDF were identified in the source chain, including older Who Profits and trade-press references, but the audits did not recover the underlying prospectus, contract, procurement notice, or other primary documents needed to upgrade those claims into verified fact.26 The military-domain score was therefore fixed at zero despite the company’s documented Israeli subsidiary and settlement-linked footprint.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Greenkote’s strongest defence in this domain is substantial. The reviewed primary record did not identify verified Israeli defence procurement, supply-chain integration with named Israeli defence primes, or Greenkote participation in munitions, platforms, base services, or export-controlled military supply to Israel.11121314 Public-facing company materials present Greenkote as a civilian coatings and licensing business, and the company’s sectors page alone is not enough to establish an Israeli military relationship.1216

The audits also treated the older army-supply allegations cautiously: they remained unresolved historical leads rather than accepted findings.26 That evidentiary limit is material and should be preserved.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified that Greenkote is a user or provider of Israeli-origin surveillance, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, or enterprise-software systems relevant to the Israel/Palestine nexus.121516 The reviewed record is industrial and manufacturing oriented: proprietary powders, process technologies, coating systems, and related R&D and production.12 The audits did not identify Greenkote as a user of named Israeli-origin enterprise or surveillance vendors, a participant in Project Nimbus, or a provider of digital services to Israeli state, military, or intelligence bodies.121516

The main overlap between the digital-domain audit and the broader dossier is structural rather than technological. The same OHCHR listing, the Israeli subsidiary, the Barkan-linked SDS, and patent materials document an Israeli footprint, but they do not show Greenkote developing offensive cyber, spyware, digital weapons, AI targeting systems, or Israeli government cloud services.17234823

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Greenkote’s strongest defence here is that the reviewed public record does not support a digital nexus beyond general corporate web presence and standard privacy disclosures.1215 No public evidence identified data-center activity in Israel, digital-residency commitments, surveillance deployments, or digital contracts with Israeli state entities.121516

That distinction matters because the company’s documented Israel-linked subsidiary and OHCHR listing concern territorial and operational exposure, not a verified role in Israeli digital-security architecture.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

The economic-domain case rests on ownership, operating footprint, and settlement-linked location evidence. Greenkote’s 2024 group accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary engaged in diffusion-coating R&D and production.7 Companies House charges show the UK parent had pledged all shares of Greenkote (Israel) Limited, which is primary documentary evidence of a controlling ownership relationship.6 Patent records further connect Greenkote-linked technology and assignments to Israeli entities and Barkan-linked addresses.823

The central settlement-related documentary lead is the 29 August 2019 safety data sheet naming Industrial Zone Barkan, 448200 Barkan, Israel as the supplier address.1 B’Tselem’s 2010 report identifies Barkan Industrial Park next to Ariel as an Israeli industrial area in the West Bank, and OCHA’s 2019 settlements atlas index lists both Barkan and Barqan I.P. in Salfit governorate.2425 Combined with the OHCHR settlement-database listings, that yields a documented economic nexus to settlement-linked business exposure even though the reviewed record did not include a primary land, lease, or permit document naming Greenkote at the site.1234

The historical corporate chain reinforces the Israeli operating footprint. Globes reported in 2007 that Summet Hi-Tech Coatings Ltd. was founded in 1999, acquired by Greenkote around 2005, later renamed Greenkote Israel, and had received a NIS 1.3 million grant from the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist.27 The Israeli company record reviewed in the audits shows Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as active and filing through 2024.21

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the reviewed current public record is incomplete on scale and current site status. Greenkote’s current public locations page does not visibly list Israel, and the company’s present headquarters and operational narrative are centered on Brook Park, Ohio.121522 The audits did not identify current Israel-specific revenue, workforce size, tax paid, profit repatriation, or land-title documentation, and they did not independently verify whether Barkan operations remain physically active in the same form as reflected in the 2019 SDS and older historical materials.15121

The company is also not a consumer-goods or agricultural importer, and the reviewed record did not identify settlement-goods labeling issues, agricultural sourcing, or retail distribution patterns.1216 The economic case is therefore narrow: it is about an owned Israeli operating subsidiary and settlement-linked location evidence, not a broader theory of economic entanglement.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Greenkote’s political-domain exposure is primarily reputational and regulatory rather than ideological. OHCHR listed Greenkote P.L.C. in the settlement-business database in 2020, repeated the listing in its 30 June 2023 update, and the UN reporting trail reviewed in the audits shows the company remained listed in the 26 September 2025 update cycle.2345 A UK parliamentary written answer dated 6 August 2025 confirms that ministers were asked about Greenkote PLC in connection with the OHCHR database and responded that the government was aware of the database, did not comment on individual businesses, did not support settlement business activity, and advised firms to consider legal risk.9

Civil-society scrutiny is also documented. Amnesty International UK said in 2020 that Greenkote was among the UK firms named in the UN settlement-company database and that it had written directly to the company asking it to end settlement-related activity.10 A House of Commons debate in September 2020 also cited Greenkote as one of the firms on the UN settlement list.9 These records show political salience and external scrutiny, even though they do not themselves specify Greenkote’s precise qualifying conduct beyond the UN-list inclusion.

What the record does not show is equally important. No public evidence identified an official Greenkote statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict, public support for Israeli state policy, PAC or lobbying activity tied to this issue, or supportable donation records connecting the company or named current directors to FIDF, JNF, AIPAC, or similar bodies.918 The political score is therefore driven by documented settlement-listing exposure and public-policy scrutiny, not by expressive political conduct.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Greenkote’s strongest defence here is that the available public evidence does not show advocacy, propaganda, state partnerships, or political financing. The company’s public materials are commercial and operational rather than conflict-focused, and no public response to Amnesty was identified in the reviewed record.1215202810 No public evidence identified court judgments, sanctions actions, OECD National Contact Point proceedings, or state-backed PR partnerships tied to Greenkote.39

There is also a specificity limit to the OHCHR evidence. The 2025 public OHCHR material reviewed in the audits continued to include Greenkote but did not set out the company’s precise qualifying conduct in the press material itself beyond database inclusion.34 The listing is therefore important evidence, but not a substitute for a complete public factual narrative from the company or the UN.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic6.107.009.006.10
Political3.407.109.003.40

The fixed V4 result is driven by V-ECON, not by military or digital evidence. In this record, the decisive factors are the wholly owned Israeli subsidiary, Barkan-linked operating documentation, and repeated OHCHR settlement-database inclusion, while the military and digital domains remained at zero because no verified state-security contracts or digital-service links were established.17234 Methodologically, the scores are evidence-only and vetted: impact is scale-free by activity type, then bounded by magnitude and proximity rather than by advocacy assumptions.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://greenkote.com/wp-content/uploads/SDS-8.19-rev4.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  2. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  3. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  4. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4091616?ln=en ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  5. https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/A.HRC_.43.71-1.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/charges ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/filing-history/MzQ3MjMzNzM2OWFkaXF6a2N4/document?download=1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  8. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2006006141A1/en ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-06-30/63879/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  10. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/uk-call-jcb-and-other-british-firms-end-involvement-israeli-settlements/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  12. https://greenkote.com/company/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  13. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-licensing-management-information-for-israel/israel-export-control-licensing-data-28-february-2026 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  14. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/OurServices/Pages/%E2%80%8BDefense%20and%20HLS%20directory.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  15. https://greenkote.com/locations/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  16. https://greenkote.com/industries/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  17. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/filing-history?page=1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  18. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  19. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/officers ↩ ↩2

  20. https://greenkote.com/management/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. https://www.checkid.co.il/company/%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98-%28%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%29-%D7%91%D7%A2~%D7%9E-512778119 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  22. https://greenkote.com/wp-content/uploads/Greenkote-Plant-Expansion.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.0/publication-dates/20190612/patents/EP3292230NWB1/document.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  24. https://www.btselem.org/download/201007_by_hook_and_by_crook_eng.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.ochaopt.org/atlas2019/images/db/israeli-settlements-checkpoints/israeli-settlments.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4129 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  27. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1000191498 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://greenkote.com/investor-information/ ↩