Market assessment: olefin metathesis catalysis

我们已经开发了一系列专利催化剂，可以用于一种称为烯烃复分解的过程。美国、欧盟和PCT已经提交了关于这一系列催化剂的临时物质组成专利。这一过程(烯烃歧化)是化学合成中最有用的化学转化之一，在聚合物、制药、生物燃料、香水和精细化工合成等工业中有着广泛的应用。这一市场目前由一家成功的美国公司MATRIA主导，该公司生产、销售和分销一类烯烃歧化催化剂。我们相信，我们的平台催化剂技术可以颠覆市场，提供具有竞争力的替代方案。 在我们最近获奖的NSERC I2I阶段1(I2IPJ 469156-14)中，我们目前正在解决最后剩余的技术问题：1)催化剂放大合成；2)筛选催化剂官能团耐受性；3)确定潜在的技术优势，如卓越的活性、双功能和潜在能力。我们已经确定了这一平台催化剂技术在大量潜在市场的适用性和实用性方面的潜在优势。因此，尽管我们的商业化计划保持不变，但很明显，我们需要评估市场。 因此，这份市场评估建议是不可或缺的，它将使我们能够评估作为客户的目标市场部门以及在每个市场部门中，评估谁可能是最早采用的客户。我们计划通过使用第三方顾问进行的这一主要市场研究来实现这一点，这将有助于验证我们的市场假设。我们希望这将使我们能够确保成功申请NSERC I2I阶段2所需的投资和/或与老牌公司的联合开发。

We have developed a family of proprietary catalysts that can be used for a process known as olefin metathesis. US, EU, and PCT provisional composition of matter patents on this family of catalysts have been filed. This process (olefin metathesis) is one of the most useful chemical transformations in chemical synthesis with a range of applications in industries including polymer, pharmaceutical, biofuel, perfumes and fine chemical syntheses. This market is currently dominated by Materia, a successful US company that manufactures, sells and distributes a class of olefin metathesis catalysts. We believe our platform catalyst technology can disrupt the market providing a competitive alternative. In our recently awarded NSERC I2I Phase 1 (I2IPJ 469156-14), we are currently resolving the last remaining technical issues: 1) Catalyst scale-up synthesis; 2) Screen catalyst functional group tolerance; 3) Identify potential technical advantages, such as superior activity, bifunctionality and latent capabilities. We have identified potential advantages in the applicability and utility of this platform catalyst technology across a large number of potential markets. So while our commercialization plan remains unchanged, it has become apparent that we need to assess the market. As a result, this Market Assessment Proposal is integral and will allow us to assess which market sector to target as customers and within each market sector, assess who may be the early adopter customers. We plan to do this through this primary market research using a third-party consultant, which will help validate our market assumptions. We hope this will position us to secure investment and/or a joint development with established companies, needed to successfully qualify for applying to the NSERC I2I Phase 2.