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Robert Bosch GmbH is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 410,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2018). The company generated sales of €78.5 billion in 2018. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. Bosch's strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm: Bosch creates technology that is "Invented for life".
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Nanalysis and ChitoLytic are leading companies in their respective fields. Nanalysis is a manufacturer of cutting-edge benchtop NMR instruments, and ChitoLytic is one of the world’s leading chitosan suppliers.
They have been collaborating to develop methods using the Nanalysis 60 MHz benchtop NMR instrument to evaluate chitosan, including the accurate determination of the degree of deacetylation (DAA), one of chitosan’s most important quality control parameters. DDA exerts significant influence on chitosan's many physical, chemical, and biological properties, including its acid-base and electrostatic characteristics, biodegradability, adhesiveness, self-aggregation tendencies, sorption capabilities, its ability to bind with metal ions, etc.
The Nanalysis 60 MHz benchtop NMR instrument has shown it provides an accurate, simple, rapid, cost-effective, and dependable method for evaluating chitosan DDA, which in turn can help to unlock chitosan’s full potential in a wide range of applications.
By working together, ChitoLytic and Nanalysis hope to expand the testing capabilities of markets that don’t have access to traditional high-field NMR instrumentation, and to those that do have access that can also benefit from an easier-to-use, rapid, and cost-effective method.
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NanoCanada has an exceptional national and international reputation and network that it uses to showcase and launch Canadian innovators in advanced materials and nanotechnology. NanoCanada delivers significant economic impact thanks to its strong leadership and experience, identifying gaps in the Canadian innovation ecosystem, and developing programs to support its community.
One of the great benefits of membership in NanoCanada is the cross‐disciplinary, cross‐sectoral, nature of advanced materials and nanotechnology which impact almost every aspect of our lives; everything from cosmetics to climate change solutions, precision agriculture to exploring life on Mars. NanoCanada has members from coast to coast in all sectors that work to support the development of a dynamic and healthy society.
Sartec
Established in 1995, SARTEC is the technology company of the SARAS Group. SARTEC is a global supplier of technology and solutions to improve the industrial and environmental performance of large industries, SMEs and public agencies, for the betterment of local communities. The company has an integrated approach that includes: Industrial engineering for cost-effective management of production processes in a variety of sectors. SARTEC's solutions yield a continuous improvement cycle in energy efficiency with respect to production and operations resource efficiency. SARTEC develops these solutions in order to move the energy industry towards sustainability. SARTEC's parent company, SARAS Spa, owns one of Europe's largest oil refineries, processing 15 million tonnes of crude oil per year (300,000 barrels per day) and is the leading refinery in the Mediterranean area, integrated with petrochemicals units and one of the largest IGCC gasification plant. SARTEC is the vector of SARAS Group's expertise, know-how and skills in the field of industrial and technological services for the oil, energy and environment sectors and leverages on longlasting successful operations in the Saras Group's oil refinery at Sarroch, to offer a wide range of consultancy services on industrial plants' technology, operation, asset management and supply chain. Main SARTEC's assets are: Two state-of-the-art chemical laboratories for environmental and oil testing and analysis (oil, products and marine bunker fuel); a laboratory with certified equipment for the maintenance of analytical instruments; an optical laboratory for the assembly and calibration of proprietary spectroscopic instrumentation. The company continues to exploit new global market opportunities independently and with partners.
SUPRA is an official distributor of Nanalysis benchtop NMR Spectrometers including the NMReady-60e, NMReady-60PRO and related accessories developed and manufactured by Nanalysis Corp.
Supra Research and Development (“SUPRA”) was formed in 2009 to commercialize biomass extraction technology developed at UBC Okanagan by Dr. Rob O’Brien’s research team. SUPRA was the first spin-off company to emerge from UBC Okanagan. The rights to this extraction technology were eventually sold and sales revenue was reinvested into analytical instrumentation to provide support for the Natural Health Product (NHP) sector. SUPRA soon began testing fish oils for PCBs/PCDDs/PCDFs, one of the most challenging analyses for commercial labs. SUPRA secured a series of major clients such as Natural Factors and Webber Naturals, and it also secured ISO 17025 accreditation. In addition to analytical services, SUPRA provided critical research and development services to these companies as well as ISURA, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving quality standards in the natural health supplement and food product industries.