Today we’re happy to
announce that BioLargo Water Canada has been awarded $235,000 CAD from the
Canadian Government’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to fund
our first on-site pilot project.
You can read our official press release about this pivotal
milestone here.
As many of you know, BioLargo’s Advanced Oxidation System
(AOS) has, through the past few
years of development, been transformed from a
tiny beaker-sized proof-of-concept device to a full-fledged pre-commercial
“Alpha” prototype. Building a prototype like this is a crucial step in taking
an innovative product to market, but it’s not sufficient alone.
Another big part of the equation is the need for commercial pilots,
where the product is tested in a real field environment against real-world
industrial challenges. Naturally, we have been working hard to establish these
commercial pilot projects for our AOS.
Now, we’re pleased to say we have been awarded significant
financial support from NRC-IRAP to fund our first commercial pilot, and have
secured an industrial poultry processing client partner on whose site our pilot
AOS will be installed. This commercial pilot, which is planned to take place
throughout 2018 and early 2019, will see the AOS installed on-site at a
Canadian poultry producer’s processing facility, where its ability to reliably
and cost-effectively treat poultry wastewater will be demonstrated
exhaustively.
This is an important step for our AOS technology, as well as
for our company. We are confident in our disruptive water treatment technology
and have proven its treatment capabilities in the lab ad nauseum. However, a pilot project for the AOS, as with any
technology, is crucial to prove its reliability to industry stakeholders as
well the capital cost and operating costs of our technology at-scale. These data
will be critical to pave the way for
future market adoption. And, as you might imagine, we have many other pilots in
evaluation.
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