Developing leading-edge high-throughput development processes
We have an established record in successfully developing and applying leading–edge research and development technology for the creation of novel materials. The Group has continued to build expertise on this foundation, and intends to continue innovation in this area generating substantial know-how and trade secrets.
This unique selling point has attracted large multinational partners to the Group and created a barrier to entry for potential competitors.
Partnering with companies committed to developing and commercialising jointly developed products
Our core competence is in the innovation of novel materials which includes the identification of demand for new materials and the rapid execution of experimental programmes to develop materials to meet that demand. We operate at the beginning of the product supply chain, and understand that successful commercialisation requires manufacturing capabilities, know-how in the integration of materials into consumer products and retailing to the mass market.
Once we have identified potential demand for a new material, we shortlist the leading industrial companies in the sector and seek to attract them into mutually-beneficial joint development programmes.
Using high throughput processes to invent patentable functional materials
We aim to use our HTT process to invent patentable functional materials. We also use specialist software to analyse the existing intellectual property landscape and, in addition, exchange information with our commercialisation partners in order to draw up a project scope that is thought likely to yield a material or family of materials with a defensible patent position.
The Group has filed a series of patents covering materials which are potentially of significant value to target markets, a number of which are currently being scaled up by its commercialisation partners.