NanoEFX for ports, airports & logistics
NanoEFX is a passive, water-based air-filter treatment that helps cargo-handling engines burn fuel more completely — supporting lower fuel consumption and lower emissions on reach stackers, terminal tractors, forklifts and ground-support equipment, with no engine modification and no downtime.
| Treatment | Passive, water-based air-filter coating — not a fuel additive or ECU remap |
|---|---|
| Applies to | Reach stackers · Terminal tractors · Forklifts · Airport ground-support equipment |
| Fuels | Diesel · LPG · Biodiesel |
| Application | Sprayed onto the existing air filter · 20–45 min · no downtime |
| Reapplication | By run-hours (handling equipment is measured in operating hours) |
| Engine changes | None — no modification, remap or retrofit |
| Regulatory context | EU Stage V engine-emission standards (non-road mobile machinery) · port air-quality rules |
A coating on the air filter — not a fuel additive or a remap
NanoEFX is sprayed onto the engine's existing air filter, where it dries into a thin, breathable nano-coating. As the engine draws air through that treated surface, the coating conditions the intake air before combustion — supporting a cleaner, more complete and more efficient burn. For a terminal fleet, that means the same treatment works across every engine that breathes through a treatable filter.
What it is
- A passive nanostructured intake-air treatment
- Applied to the air filter you already service
- Water-based — dries to a thin, breathable coating
- Works before combustion, at the intake-air stage
What it isn't
- A fuel additive or oil additive
- An ECU remap or tuning
- A mechanical retrofit or powered device
- Anything that changes how you operate
Three pressures every terminal operator already feels
These are the forces that make intake-air efficiency worth acting on — independent of any single engine or duty cycle.
Ports and terminals are emission hotspots
Dense diesel handling equipment operates under close air-quality scrutiny. A more complete burn means less CO, unburned hydrocarbons and soot, without replacing equipment or retrofitting hardware.
Fuel cost of continuous operation
Handling equipment runs long, repeated shifts. Because the effect repeats every operating hour, even a modest efficiency gain accumulates quickly across a terminal.
ESG through the logistics chain
Shippers and customers increasingly measure and report supply-chain emissions. Burning less fuel directly lowers the Scope 1 emissions of a terminal’s operations.
Want the numbers for your own fleet? The ROI & EU ETS calculator models fuel-cost and carbon-cost savings from your own figures — you set the efficiency assumption.
Regulatory sources: EU Stage V — Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 (non-road engines) · Other regions (USA, Japan, China, and more) →
No trial data from this sector
We have not measured terminal handling equipment — no reach stacker, no straddle carrier, no yard tractor appears in our records.
The nearest evidence we hold
The nearest evidence is our municipal refuse fleet, which shares the stop-start, high-load, short-distance pattern of yard work: five vehicles, drivers blinded, a distance-weighted 18.2% — with the caveat, stated on that page, that the vehicles also ran 10.5% lighter during the trial. Yard equipment is not a refuse truck, and we present that as the closest analogue rather than as a result for terminals.
What a trial here would have to look like
Terminal equipment is unusually well suited to a proper trial: machines are numbered, fuelled on site and work measurable cycles. Treating half a homogeneous group and leaving the rest untreated over the same weeks would give a result we would defend.
Waste Services
−18.2%The closest duty cycle we have measured — stop-start, high-load, short distances, with drivers blinded.
Read the trial →All trial results, including the weak and mixed ones → · every individual measurement we hold
How a trial is run and what each method can show: measurement methodology. What we measured at the exhaust: emissions. Everything in one place: the evidence section.
From a reach stacker to airport ground support
A terminal is rarely one machine. NanoEFX applies to handling engines that breathe through a treatable air filter, and it conditions the intake air regardless of the fuel burned.
Equipment types
Fuels
No workshop, no downtime, no new hardware
NanoEFX is applied by your own team, onto the air filter they already remove at service. It rides on the maintenance you do anyway rather than adding a new one.
What a cleaner burn means for a terminal fleet
NanoEFX doesn't add energy or oxygen and doesn't modify your engine — it helps the engine waste less of the energy already in the fuel. NOx response is engine- and control-system dependent.
Common questions from operators
Does NanoEFX work on terminal and cargo-handling equipment?
Will it change the engine or need a remap?
How often does it need reapplying on handling equipment?
Does it help with port air quality and ESG reporting?
Does it affect a DPF, SCR, EGR or AdBlue system?
Don't take the claim — measure it
The most honest evidence is your own baseline. In a NanoEFX pilot you run a controlled trial on your own engines, measured against your own fuel data — and you only pay if it proves savings.