Greenkote

Key Findings

• Economic: Greenkote’s 2024 audited group accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary conducting diffusion-coating R&D and production; company-issued 2019 product documentation identified a Barkan Industrial Zone supplier address.^{1, 2}
• Settlements: OHCHR listed Greenkote P.L.C. under activity code (g) in its 2023 settlement-business database update, and the 2025 update again listed the company.^{3, 4}
• Political: The documented nexus is operational and settlement-database based; no public evidence identified of Greenkote lobbying, political donations, state partnerships, or an official conflict-related public position.^{5, 6}
• Not found: No public evidence identified of a verified Israeli defence or security contract, supply relationship with a named Israeli defence prime, or Israeli military digital-service relationship.^{7, 8}

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. is shown as an active Israeli private company incorporated on 10 May 1999, with a Caesarea address and latest annual report shown as 2024.¹⁴
• Greenkote’s current locations page does not visibly list an Israeli location, despite the documented Israeli subsidiary and older Barkan-linked materials.^{10, 14}
• Greenkote changed from a public limited company to a private limited company on 27 October 2025.⁹

Executive Summary

Greenkote is an industrial coatings-technology business headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio and incorporated through a UK parent company. Its public materials describe proprietary metal-alloy powders, process technologies, diffusion coatings, and turnkey coating systems serving industrial sectors. The company’s materials market coatings to a “Military” sector generally, but the reviewed record does not identify an Israeli military customer, programme, contract, tender, end-user certificate, or export licence tied to Israeli security bodies.^{10, 11, 7}

The strongest documented Israel/Palestine nexus is economic and operational. Greenkote PLC’s audited accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 identify Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100%-held subsidiary engaged in diffusion-coating R&D and production. Historical company-issued and patent materials connect Greenkote to Barkan Industrial Zone, while patent and officer records also document historical links involving Ariel. The current public locations page does not visibly list Israel, and the available record does not establish whether operations remain physically active at the historical Barkan site in the same form.^{1, 2, 15, 10}

OHCHR listed Greenkote P.L.C. in its 2020 settlement-business database and again under activity code (g) in the 2023 update. The 2025 UN update again listed Greenkote P.L.C. as a UK-origin enterprise. The public-facing 2025 material reviewed does not specify Greenkote’s precise qualifying conduct beyond its inclusion in the database. The 2019 safety data sheet supplies a Barkan address, while independent geographic sources identify Barkan Industrial Park as an Israeli industrial area in the West Bank; however, no primary land, lease, or permit document naming Greenkote at that site was located in the reviewed record.^{16, 3, 4, 2, 17}

The evidence does not support hardening historical secondary claims that Greenkote supplied the Israeli army. Who Profits and a 2005 trade-press report contain historical leads, but the former expressly limits the validity of its information to 2011 and the reviewed source chain did not produce an underlying contract, procurement record, prospectus, customer list, or other primary evidence. No public evidence identified of contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, intelligence services, named defence primes, or a weapons programme.^{18, 19, 7}

The fixed human-vetted V6.5 result is BRS 578, Tier C (Substantial Complicity). The result reflects the documented Israeli subsidiary, historical Barkan evidence, and continuing OHCHR-listing record in the Economic and Political domains. It does not assign Military or Digital points, because the reviewed evidence did not verify those nexuses.^{1, 3, 4, 7, 8}

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Greenkote presents itself as a global industrial coatings business headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio, with sales, support, manufacturing, joint-venture, and licensee relationships across several countries. Its visible current locations inventory identifies the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, China or Hong Kong, and licensed or support operations elsewhere, but does not visibly list Israel.^{10, 11}

The UK corporate vehicle was incorporated in 2005 and changed name from Greenkote PLC to Greenkote Limited in October 2025. Companies House records no registrable person or registrable relevant legal entity as a person with significant control. The company’s investor materials identify Equiniti as registrar and Charles Street Securities Europe LLP as financial adviser.^{9, 5, 22}

The group’s 2024 audited accounts provide the clearest current ownership evidence: Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. was 100% held by the parent and described as undertaking diffusion-coating R&D and production. Charges over all shares in that subsidiary independently document a parent–subsidiary relationship historically. The reviewed records do not identify current Israeli state ownership, government board appointees, a golden share, Israeli tax residency, or present beneficial ownership by Israeli capital.^{1, 21, 5}

Historical materials show a more visible Barkan-linked footprint than the current locations page. A 2019 Greenkote safety data sheet named Barkan as supplier address; patent-family records name Greenkote-linked entities in Barkan; and historical sources refer to an Ariel address. The latter historical claims should not be treated as current operating-site proof without additional primary documentation.^{2, 15, 18}

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

Greenkote’s industry materials market coating technology to “Military” among multiple sectors, and its products can have general industrial or dual-use applications. The reviewed materials, however, describe coatings and industrial applications rather than a named weapons-platform, military-service, or Israeli-security integration role.^{11, 7}

Historical secondary sources assert that Greenkote supplied products or services to the Israeli army, including a 2005 trade-press reference to the Israeli Defence Force and a historical Who Profits profile. Neither claim was independently verified through an underlying contract, customer list, procurement notice, prospectus, official release, or filing in the reviewed record.^{19, 18}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of a named Greenkote contract, tender, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, export licence, end-user certificate, or enforcement action involving the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or intelligence bodies.^{7, 23}

No public evidence identified that Greenkote supplied Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or a named Israeli weapons programme. The company’s current materials do not identify an Israel-specific military product line, tactical variant, or critical subsystem for lethal or strategic platforms.^{7, 11}

The strongest company defence is therefore that it is a civilian industrial-coatings business whose general “Military” market category and historical secondary-source claims do not establish an Israeli defence relationship. That defence is materially supported by the absence of verified primary procurement or end-user evidence in the reviewed record.^{7, 19}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Greenkote: markets coatings across industrial sectors, including Military, but no verified Israeli military contract was identified.^{11, 7}
• Israeli Ministry of Defence / IDF / Israeli security bodies: no named Greenkote procurement relationship located in the reviewed public record.⁷
• Who Profits and 2005 trade press: historical leads only; the army-supply assertion remains unverified.^{18, 19}

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

The reviewed public record characterises Greenkote as an industrial coatings and manufacturing-technology business, not an enterprise-software, cloud, surveillance, cybersecurity, AI, or digital-services provider.^{11, 10}

No public evidence identified that Greenkote uses or supplies named Israeli-origin enterprise software, surveillance technologies, cloud infrastructure, Project Nimbus services, spyware, offensive cyber tools, AI systems, computer vision, autonomous systems, or data-residency services connected to Israeli state or military bodies.^{8, 24}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Greenkote’s website privacy statement describes collection of ordinary website-contact and technical information, while not disclosing hosting location, processor lists, or whether such data are routed through Israel. This limited transparency is not evidence of an Israeli data nexus.²⁵

The owned Israeli subsidiary is documented as an R&D and production entity for diffusion coatings, not documented here as a software vendor or digital-service provider. No verified contract with Israeli defence, intelligence, or security agencies was identified.^{1, 8}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Greenkote (Israel) Ltd.: wholly owned R&D and production subsidiary; no digital-service role was documented.¹
• Project Nimbus and Israeli state cloud initiatives: no public Greenkote participation identified.²⁴
• Israeli defence and intelligence bodies: no verified digital contract or service agreement identified.⁸

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

The core Economic evidence is the documented Israeli subsidiary and historical Barkan-linked operational record. Greenkote’s 2024 group accounts list Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. as a 100%-held subsidiary carrying out diffusion-coating R&D and production. The Israeli company record identifies an active company incorporated in 1999, with a Caesarea address and a 2024 annual-report reference.^{1, 14}

A 2019 Greenkote safety data sheet identifies an Industrial Zone Barkan supplier address. B’Tselem and OCHA materials identify Barkan Industrial Park/Barqan Industrial Park in the West Bank. Taken together, these records support a documented historical settlement-nexus lead, but the reviewed materials did not produce a primary land, lease, or permit document establishing Greenkote’s precise tenure or current operating status at Barkan.^{2, 17}

OHCHR listed Greenkote P.L.C. under activity (g) in 2020 and 2023, and the 2025 update again listed the company. The public 2025 materials reviewed do not particularise Greenkote’s qualifying conduct beyond database inclusion.^{16, 3, 4}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Greenkote’s current locations page does not visibly list Israel, Barkan, or Ariel. This does not negate the owned Israeli subsidiary, historical company-issued Barkan document, patent record, or UN listings; it does limit what can responsibly be said about the present physical status of Barkan operations.^{10, 1, 2}

No public evidence identified of revenue attributed specifically to Israel, dividend flows, royalties, management fees, Israel-specific workforce size or tax paid, Israeli tax residency of the UK parent, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, Israel-focused fund holdings, or investments in Israeli public companies. The record supports ownership and operating presence, not a quantified economic-contribution narrative.^{1, 14, 21}

No public evidence identified that Greenkote imports agricultural goods, sells settlement-origin consumer goods, or has product-labelling enforcement findings. Those indicators are not supported by the available industrial-coatings record.^{11, 26}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Greenkote (Israel) Ltd.: wholly owned subsidiary; R&D and production activity documented in the 2024 group accounts.¹
• Barkan Industrial Zone: named in Greenkote’s 2019 safety data sheet; geographic sources identify Barkan Industrial Park in the West Bank.^{2, 17}
• OHCHR settlement-business database: Greenkote P.L.C. listed under activity (g) in the reviewed 2020, 2023, and 2025 materials.^{16, 3, 4}

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The Political-domain evidence is not political advocacy or government partnership. It consists of the public-policy significance of Greenkote’s repeated OHCHR settlement-database listings, its documented Israeli subsidiary, and its historical Barkan-linked evidence.^{3, 4, 1, 2}

The political Impact of 6.5 follows the rubric’s cross-domain settlement rule: documented settlement-linked activity is not treated as ordinary Business-as-Usual even where no advocacy is found. The 2019 company-issued Barkan supplier disclosure, continued OHCHR listing, and absence of a verified exit support that treatment. This uses the listing as a rebuttable presumption of continuing involvement; it does not establish that the historical Barkan facility is operating today.^{2, 3, 4}

Amnesty International UK named Greenkote in 2020 among UK firms appearing in the UN settlement-company database and stated that it had written to the company asking it to end settlement-related activity. A UK parliamentary written answer in August 2025 stated that the government was aware of the OHCHR database, did not comment on individual businesses, did not encourage or support settlement business activity, and advised businesses to consider legal advice.^{27, 28}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of an official Greenkote statement on Israel/Palestine, political donations, lobbying registrations, PAC activity, state honours, hosted Israeli officials, Brand Israel campaigns, formal Israeli state partnerships, or donations to FIDF, JNF, AIPAC, or similar bodies.^{6, 29}

No public company response to Amnesty’s 2020 intervention was identified in the reviewed materials. This is an absence-of-record finding, not evidence that Greenkote rejected, ignored, or accepted Amnesty’s request.^{27, 6}

No public evidence identified of court judgments, sanctions actions, OECD National Contact Point proceedings, or regulatory enforcement against Greenkote concerning settlement activity. The principal political evidence remains the OHCHR listing and associated parliamentary and civil-society scrutiny rather than a proven advocacy or state-support programme.^{3, 4, 28}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• OHCHR: repeatedly listed Greenkote P.L.C. in the reviewed settlement-business database updates.^{3, 4}
• Amnesty International UK: publicly called on Greenkote and other firms to end settlement-related activity in 2020.²⁷
• UK Government / Parliament: acknowledged awareness of the OHCHR database while declining to comment on individual businesses.²⁸
• Greenkote: no public conflict statement, lobbying, political-financing, or state-partnership record identified.^{6, 29}

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

• V_MAX: 6.50 Avg_OTHERS: 2.17
• BRS Score: 578 Tier: C (Substantial Complicity)

V_MAX is driven by the jointly highest Economic and Political scores: the documented wholly owned Israeli operating subsidiary, Barkan-linked record, and repeated OHCHR settlement-business database listings. Military and Digital scores remain zero because the reviewed evidence did not verify a military, security, or digital-services relationship.

In V6.5, Impact describes the character of the activity independently of its scale; Magnitude and Proximity then capture scale and directness. This human-vetted result does not convert unverified historical allegations into verified involvement.

Methodology Note

• Evidence is limited to the four supplied domain audits and their cited documentary record.
• Impact reflects the type of documented activity; M reflects scale; P reflects the directness of the evidenced nexus.
• Historical allegations lacking a recoverable primary-source chain are retained only as unverified leads or excluded from scoring.
• Divested or exited operations would mitigate attribution where supported by evidence; no such divestment or exit was established here.
• The company, its integrated controlled entities, and documented controlling-principal conduct were considered. No qualifying principal act was identified; customer names, sector labels, and historical addresses alone do not establish such conduct.
• Settlement-related operations can inform both Economic and Political where the same documented activity has economic and public-policy significance.
• “No public evidence identified” means the stated checks did not locate supporting evidence; it is not proof that an activity never occurred.