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Significance of new product/s
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Competitive advantage
of new product/s
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Product innovation in
terms of unique or revolutionary technology?
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Product acceptance in
the marketplace?
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New product
value-added services provided to customers?
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Number of competitors
with similar product/s?
1.
Significance of new product/s in your industry?
Bio-Organic Catalyst, Inc. has created and patented a novel and
completely unique method of purifying and treating water, soils and
other substrates that is totally safe for the environment. Bio-Organic
Catalyst, Inc.’s bio-organic catalysts (BOCs) are an entirely new and
unique line of products and, most importantly, a new product category of
biochemistry. BOCs provide capabilities that integrate solubilization
(physical), oxidation (chemical), and catalysis (biological)
characteristics (S - O - C). BOCs are not enzymes, bacteria, or
oxidants. BOCs are liquid organic catalysts, completely safe for human,
animal, and marine life.
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2. Competitive advantage of new products in your industry?
BOCs product formulations perform multiple positive functions, and are
not only non-toxic, they are biologically enhancing. BOCs’ ability to
increase dissolved oxygen and gas transfer rates, at the same or lower
energy levels, and accelerate biodegrading, provides the solution to
fundamental chronic maintenance and operational needs universal to all
cleaning and wastewater treatment applications worldwide. BOCs improve
worker safety and quality of life for communities, eliminating
complaints about odors, transforming the conditions that create odors,
and providing critical attributes for meeting the purification of our
water resources.
In contrast, although chemical oxidation agents are widely used and may
provide good utility; they are detrimental to biological processes and
therefore unable to provide the complete life cycle optimization of BOCs
in environmental waste management. Biological additives can provide more
specialized benefits, such as when indigenous biological media may need
seeding. However, as currently used, the effectiveness of biological
additives can be limited, potentially harmful, and do not significantly
impact the underlying environmental biological vitality. BOCs work from
a "supply side" approach where both chemical and biological reactions
are enhanced through the functionality of the integrated attributes of
BOCs. Waste treatment and water purification are then harmonized,
resulting in less overall chemical usage, optimization of wastewater
treatment within existing facility infrastructure, and better discharge
quality.
In every wastewater facility, industrial manufacturer, food processor
and server, hotel/resort or hospitality location, office building,
school, and hospital, harsh chemicals are used to solve the multiple
challenges of water purification and elimination of pathogenic wastes.
These are almost all based upon a chemical model which uses a powerful,
but dangerous oxidative ‘punch’ to kill off potential disease carrying
pathogenic contaminants. BOCs approach the problem from an entirely new
direction, where organic contaminants are catalytically broken down to
their fundamental elements. This allows BOCs to replace or augment
traditional chemicals, by its safe and very effective cleaning agent,
which presents no immediate danger to the user, and doesn’t produce
dangerous byproducts that present ongoing risks to people and our
environment.
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3. Product innovation in terms of unique or revolutionary technology?
The integration of solubilization, oxidation and catalysis (S - O - C)
provides for the first time a universally applicable biochemistry
platform that addresses the need for a complement to existing chemical
and biological processes, an ability to eliminate or substantially
reduce toxicity in waste management, and strong economic values in
reducing waste management treatment costs. The formulations work by
creating a nearly instantaneous catalytic breakdown of organic
molecules, making them more readily digestible by indigenous
bio-organisms, as well as more rapidly oxidized by chemical agents.
Rather than attempting to break down specific organic elements, as an
enzyme would do, a broad cascading action is created, accelerating
biological degradation throughout the entire spectrum of organics
contaminants.
This breakthrough technology provides many benefits throughout all
aspects of water treatment and cleaning applications. BOCs solubilize
organic materials, increasing the nutrient availability for indigenous
bacteria and reducing the volatile organics for odor control. BOCs
improve aeration efficiencies, thereby enhancing biological activity.
BOCs accelerate ionic interactions, helping inorganic oxidation
reactions and making nutrients more available to bacteria. BOCs activate
biomass and increase biodegradation, including petroleum hydrocarbons,
within a shorter period of time, and at a lower cost.
BOCs are the only cleaners that also accelerate the biodegrading of
residues being cleaned. The increased oxygen availability, higher
dissolved oxygen levels, and enhancement in the solubility of cellular
material, lead to significantly faster molecular interactions and
creates an immediate catalyzing effect on contaminants. This unique
ability of BOCs to rapidly break down organic contaminants leads to a
whole new class of cleaning and remediation agents, where contaminants
are not only removed, they are also degraded into their more fundamental
components, and hence are more easily eliminated.
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4. Product
acceptance in the marketplace?
The acceptance of BOCs has been a challenge of identifying and
exploiting points of entry as the cleaning and wastewater treatment
industries are conservative and skeptical by nature, and where the
engineering mindset is to build. Our integrated (S-O-C) approach
effectively utilizes solubilization (physical), oxidation (chemical) and
catalysis (biological) (S-O-C) is a new and disruptive technology,
bringing transformative culture and mindset changes on the part of the
marketplace participants.
Bio-Organic Catalyst, Inc. is partnering with long-time industry
veterans to enter the market, including the recognized industry experts.
Ours is a relationship-based business built on trust and comfort zones.
Confidence and word of mouth referrals are growing as BOCs are
successfully solving problems where current product options are unable
to meet client requirements. Market acceptance is now accelerating as
the broader market demands for practical and superior non-toxic chemical
alternatives are coinciding with greater demands upon wastewater
discharges to meet higher levels of regulatory compliance.
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5. New product value-added services provided to customers?
Cleaning and wastewater treatment have traditionally been seen as
separate and discreet management functions. With the introduction of
BOCs, these two fundamental aspects of environmental management can be
integrated and optimized. Because it's a new category of physical/
chemical/ biological solutions, BOCs are "value-added" in that:
• they are a synergistic and integrated solution,
• they are concentrated, are potent and convenient, and work heavily
diluted in water,
• they are dose responsive, i.e.; increasing the dose increases the
effect.
In practice, equipment manufacturers can complement their system
performance with a biochemistry that enhances biological processing,
thereby extending the utility of existing equipment and facilities,
linking formally isolated components in a total life cycle improvement
of waste treatment. Chemical suppliers can complement their current
product offerings with a synergistic additive to enhance their
performance capabilities, such as biofilm degradation, and extend the
benefits of their current product lines, develop new product/service
lines, and lower downstream issues of toxicity waste byproducts.
Petroleum hydrocarbon remediation, across many fields of economic
activity, can be linked to a general cleaning/washing procedure that
will reduce costs, and provide overall enhancement of total
environmental quality control.
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6. Number
of competitors with similar product/s?
To date there are no competitors that deliver all three S- O- C values
in one solution. No other chemical or biological agents available today
have the broad range of benefits and safety features of BOCs.
Traditional chemicals, such as oxidation agents and polymers, are used
extensively in water treatment systems. However, they do not improve
biological processing rates. Biological additives have yet to develop
any meaningful role in wastewater treatment, due to their inherent
limitations of time, temperature, and safety to existing biological
processes. Ozone, enhanced oxidation systems, and high biological
density media substrates (membranes) are being used more extensively,
and all should benefit from BOCs.
There are new product offerings constantly being brought to market that
are both non-toxic chemistries, and/or biological enhancement agents due
to the marketplace’s demand for solutions that work in more
environmentally friendly ways. However, it does not appear that anyone
has combined the synergistic and integrated characteristics of BOCs to
date.
We welcome other firms joining us in valuing and honoring the
relationships that underlie all ecological systems. Bio-Organic
Catalyst, Inc. has trademarked a "Seal of Safety" program identifying
our commitment to higher community values of environmental stewardship.
We want to share our “Seal of Safety”, enabling users of Bio-Organic
Catalyst’s cleaning product line to identify themselves as making a
commitment to their customers to be using "non-toxic and safe" cleaning
products that are harmless to "human, animal and marine life". Let our
work bring a better life to all life.
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