Developing a late-stage manufacturing prototype of a low cost, high performance, circular/sustainable Respirator for Healthcare, Industrial and Civic (Public Health) procurement.

ModlaPPE正在开发一种用于医疗保健、医疗、工业和建筑行业的新型、先进、高性能呼吸器的后期制造原型，这种呼吸器比一次性呼吸器便宜80%，体积小90%，而且100%可回收。（与一次性产品不同）。经过2年的迭代，数百种不同的面膜版本和过滤器组合，该产品已通过所有关键性能数据要求，并受到目标市场参与者的好评（护士、医生、牙医和建筑专业人士）。现在，ModlaPPE的团队希望开发一个后期制造原型，对产品进行压力测试，进一步评估技术性能数据，并向潜在投资者提供商业案例。该产品的早期研发工作表明，它将是成本最低、资源最有效的产品，（1克重量对比13克一次性用品），市场上最坚固耐用的呼吸器-当然过滤效率超过95%（我们目前的颗粒过滤效率达到99.92%）。这也将是全球PPE行业第一个完全循环设计/循环经济的产品;这是一个每年1000亿美元的转型发展。市场，通常优先考虑主要功能远远超过任何可持续性或循环经济的设计考虑。快速赠款项目奖是至关重要的ModlaPPE在这个节骨眼上。PPE部门和硬件（更普遍地）在传统的私人和风险投资生态系统中服务严重不足，但这些领域迫切需要像我们这样的创新，以促进行业更广泛的变革。监管环境很复杂，产品开发需要深厚的技术和工程知识，可以使用昂贵的实验室，而且似乎只有太少的人（以及其他初创企业）能够解决这些问题。我们在ModlaPPE创造的创新，正在正面解决PPE中的浪费，成本和性能问题。我们有责任展示这种产品并在市场上占有一席之地。全球采购团队需要选择购买PPE的循环经济-他们目前没有。ModlaPPE的团队计划使用转型单元经济学，以帮助加速行业的行为变化-使新的圆形产品相对便宜，全球采购专业人员都注意到了。

ModlaPPE is developing a late-stage, manufacturing prototype of a new, advanced, high-performance respirator for use in healthcare, medical, industrial and construction sectors -- which would be 80% cheaper than disposables, 90% smaller and is also 100% recyclable (unlike disposables).After 2 years of iteration, with hundreds of different Mask versions and Filter combinations, the product has passed all key performance data requirements and has also been well received by target market participants (nurses, doctors, dentists and construction professionals).Now, the team at ModlaPPE wish to develop a late-stage manufacturing prototype, to stress test the product, to further evaluate the technical performance data and enhance the commercial case to prospective investors.The early-stage R&D work on this product suggests that it would be the lowest cost, most resource efficient (1g weight vs. 13g disposables), most robust and longest lasting respirator on the market -- certainly with a filtration efficiency above 95% (ours is currently achieving 99.92% Particle Filtration Efficiency). It would also represent the first fully Circular Design / Circular Economy product in the PPE sector globally; a transformational development in a $100bn p.a. market which typically prioritises primary function far ahead of any sustainability or circular economy considerations in design.The Fast Grant project award is critical for ModlaPPE at this juncture. The PPE sector and Hardware (more generally) are hugely underserved by conventional private and venture capital ecosystems, and yet these areas are desperately in need of innovations like ours, to catalyse a broader change in the industry. The regulatory landscape is complex, product development requires deep technical and engineering knowledge, access to expensive labs and too few people (as well as other start-ups) seem to be tackling the problems. The innovations we are creating at ModlaPPE, are tackling, head-on, the problems of waste, cost and performance in PPE.We have a duty to showcase this product and give it a place in the market. Procurement teams globally, need to have the option to buy in to the Circular Economy for PPE -- which they do not at present. The team at ModlaPPE plan to use the transformational unit economics, to help accelerate that behaviour change in the industry -- making a new, circular product so comparatively cheap, that Procurement professionals worldwide take notice.