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、医疗、工业和建筑领域的新型、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%，并且100%可回收（与一次性呼吸器不同）。经过2年的迭代，拥有数百种不同的Mask版本和Filter组合，该产品已通过所有关键性能数据要求，并且也受到目标市场参与者（护士，医生，牙医和建筑专业人员）的好评。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，并增强潜在投资者的商业案例。该产品的早期研发工作表明，它将是市场上成本最低、资源效率最高（1g重量与13g一次性口罩相比）、最坚固、使用寿命最长的口罩——过滤效率肯定在95%以上（我们目前的颗粒过滤效率达到99.92%）。它还将代表全球个人防护用品行业的第一个完全循环设计/循环经济产品；在每年1000亿美元的市场中，一个变革性的发展，通常优先考虑主要功能，远远超过设计中的任何可持续性或循环经济考虑。在这个关键时刻，Fast Grant项目奖对ModlaPPE至关重要。传统的私人和风险资本生态系统对PPE行业和硬件（更广泛地说）的服务严重不足，但这些领域迫切需要像我们这样的创新，以促进行业的更广泛变革。监管环境很复杂，产品开发需要深厚的技术和工程知识，可以进入昂贵的实验室，而解决这些问题的人（以及其他初创企业）似乎太少了。我们在ModlaPPE所创造的创新，正在正面解决PPE的浪费、成本和性能问题。我们有责任展示这种产品，让它在市场上占有一席之地。全球的采购团队需要有购买个人防护用品循环经济的选择，而目前他们还没有这样的选择。ModlaPPE的团队计划使用转型单位经济学来帮助加速行业行为的改变——制造一种相对便宜的新型循环产品，引起全球采购专业人士的注意。

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.