MATRIC is opening an office in Italy in 2010.
The office is located in the Insubria Biopark in Gerezano, outside Milan. It is a former Dow
Chemical facility that was most recently operated by Pfizer Inc.
This development office will service existing and new customers. Currently between 25
percent and 40 percent of MATRIC's annual revenues come from European chemical and energy companies.
Our new office in Europe will allow us to better communicate with and service those companies.
Key Partnerships
MATRIC Europa is in the process of establishing partnerships with API (Italian manufacturers association) and other European trade associations. Other important partners will be universities and institutes, government agencies, and private capital sources.
MATRIC Europa's Intellectual Property Model
MATRIC Europa will utilize the entire MATRIC enterprise to produce value for European manufacturers and governments, primarily through development of intellectual property. MATRIC will also be able to provide professional engineering services and commercialization assistance.
Skills
The focus areas for MATRIC Europa primarily involve energy and the environment:
- Alternative energy and energy efficiency
- Green chemistry and REACH compliance (solvent substitution, biodegradable materials, biomass products)
- Process intensification (microreactors)
Specific skills that support activities in these areas are outlined below.
Process Innovation
Applying chemical and process expertise to the development of innovative technology.
Process and Product Development
- Economic-directed laboratory research
- Quality by Design methodology
- Scale-up, pilot plant development & demonstration
- Product manufacture for market introduction & testing
Advanced Chemical Separations
- Reverse osmosis membranes
- Pressure-swing adsorption
- Temperature-swing adsorption
- Non-azeotropic distillation
- Crystallization
Advanced Catalysis
- Catalyst design & scale-up
- Testing & modeling
- Substrate design
- Reaction engineering
Process Integration
Reduction of capital and operating costs by innovative process design.
Heat and Mass Optimization
- Reductions in energy consumption
- Reductions in feedstock and solvent quantities
Reactive Separations
- Combining critical process steps
Waste Minimization and Utilization
- Reduction of non-value added byproducts
- Use of byproducts for process improvements
Process Intensification
Use of microreactor technology to enhance chemical processes.
Micro-Channel Reactors
- Enhanced heat transfer
- Pressure containment
- Catalyst efficiency
- Hazardous intermediate minimization
Micro-separations
- Membranes, distillation and extraction
Micro-Analytical Instrumentation
- Micro-LC
- GCxGC
- Fringe Field Sensors
- Vapochromic Sensors
- Raman
- RFID Communication
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
- Mini-NMR
Micro-Sampling Systems
- Valves, Regulators, Adaptors, Sample ports
