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Transforming Green Technologies into Green Business

CEC Chemicals Management ForumMay 2012

GreenCentre Canada

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Changing Chemistry, Changing The World

• Chemistry underpins our quality of life;

• However, it is this industry that presents us with our most profound sustainability challenges;

• Unchanged, our continued reliance on this industry will challenge the environment and could affect human health.

• “Green Chemistry” has the potential to address these issues and provide economic benefits.

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Green Chemistry• Green Chemistry is a chemical

philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce waste, eliminate costly end-of-the-pipe treatments; provide safer products; and reduce use of energy and resources.

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The Challenge• Many potentially “industry

changing” technologies originate in the labs of academic researchers;

• Early stage, Green Chemistry discoveries are not attractive to industry at the point where academic research ends;

• What is required is a “hands on” approach to commercialization in close collaboration with industry

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GreenCentre Canada• GreenCentre Canada is a Centre of

Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) initially funded with $23 million from government;

• Working closely with industry and universities, GCC helps to bridge the industry-academic gap by developing, de-risking and transferring Green Chemistry discoveries;

• We are academia’s gateway to the global chemical & materials industry and industry’s portal to Canada’s premier Green technologies.

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Bridging the Commercialization GapFrom University Labs to Market

Typical stage of university technologies: • Bench-test proof of utility• Applications speculative and unproven• Incomplete material characterization• Milligrams of sample• Manufacturing feasibility not studied

What industry wants: • Field-test proof of utility• Application development• Optimization & full characterization• Hundreds of grams of sample• Demonstrated scale-up

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GreenCentre Facilities

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Business Model

• Academia – We develop technologies under an exclusive license and return 75% of net proceeds (usually royalties) to institution;

• Start-Ups and SMEs – We support commercialization fee-for-service or partnerships;

• Multinationals – We are engaged on a fee-for-service basis and identify potential research relationships with universities.

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Eleven Industry Sponsors

Stepan Co.

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Why Institutions Work with Us

• We have the needed expertise and resources;

• We are well connected to the marketplace;

• Real world experience in IP management and business development; and

• Scale-up manufacturing.

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Why Industry Works with Us

• One-stop-shop to Canada’s best chemistry and material science technologies;

• Technologies are extensively evaluated before GCC becomes engaged. (Only the best make it through screening process);

• One set of IP policies;• Risk reduction.

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GreenCentre CanadaThree-Year Track Record

• 300 technologies from 44 institutions in our portfolio;

• Actively commercializing 21 technologies;• Recently created first start-up;• Currently negotiating first two out-license

agreements.

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Enabling Energy Savings from Semiconductor Miniaturization

Atomic Layer Deposition

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• Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) allows coating in atom-by-atom layers to a substrate

• Requires volatile “precursors” that must deposit from the gas phase, coat the surface in a unimolecular layer, then chemically react to form the desired coating

• We have a new family of precursors with the right volatility, stability, and reactivity

ALD Background

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• As IC features shrink, depositing conductive layers becomes more difficult

• ALD can deposit extremely thin “seed” layers which can then be electroplated

• Industry estimates the 32nm node and beyond cannot proceed with current interconnect technology

Moore’s Law Hitting the Wall

Changing the Microelectronics Industry

CONFIDENTIAL

• GreenCentre paid for testing and patenting, synthesized variant compounds, prepared commercial samples and implemented a commercialization strategy

• Currently in license negotiations with market leader for copper deposition

“The best candidate for copper I’ve seen so far” – ALD Equipment Manufacturer

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Changing the way the Chemical Industry Operates

Switchable Hydrophilicity Solvents

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Unprecedented Versatility

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Green Solvent Based Cleaning

• Dirty Plastics

• Drilling Muds• Oil Sands• Degreasing• Soil Contamination

• HDPE • PVC

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Oil Sands Processing

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Challenges• Some universities are reluctant to

surrender management of their technologies (image problem);

• Timeline for development of university technologies can be >3 years, which presents challenges for industry and government who want speedy results;

• Need to be selective means disappointing many inventors;

• Need to deal with a global industry requires broad-minded view of “local” benefits from technology transfer.

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GreenCentre CanadaOvercoming the Gap

GreenCentre represents a comprehensive and collaborative approach to commercializing Green Chemistry technologies.

Infrastructure CapitalNetworkPeople

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Contact

Mike Szarka, Director, Commercial Development

GreenCentre Canada945 Princess St. W.

Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6(613)-507-4700 x109(905)-925-8298 (cell)

mike.szarka@greencentrecanada.com