Vision and Strategy
Vaperma’s long term goal is to become the global leader in the development and commercialization of advanced gas separation solutions for clean energy and industrial uses. Our strategy for achieving this goal has the following key elements:
Reaching Profitability through Sales in Existing Markets
We are focused on reaching profitability through our membrane product sales in the existing biofuels and natural gas energy markets, and through revenue-generating engineering service contracts. For other industrial and military applications, Vaperma is seeking to license the Siftek™ membrane technology to carefully selected partners in specific areas of interest. Our goal is to develop our technology and expertise in order to create additional revenue streams.
Aggressive Time-to-Market Commercialization Strategy
Vaperma has established a highly skilled, efficient, and dynamic organization. Its intellectual property rights are developed and maintained internally while manufacturing, commercialization, and servicing will be shared with partners. We structure our operations by partnering with qualified subcontractors so as to minimize our involvement in manufacturing complete turn-key systems. Vaperma is a world-class partner with strong financial and management resources to meet an aggressive time-to-market commercialization strategy.
Leverage Key Business Relationships
The development and maintenance of key business relationships is crucial to our future success. To date, Vaperma has developed relationships worldwide with leading players in the biofuel industry. Our current key relationships in North America is with GreenField Ethanol Inc., the largest ethanol producer in Canada for the demonstration of large-capacity SiftekTM membrane-based systems for the refining of corn ethanol. We also have developed a partnership with Dedini, the largest distilleries equipment provider in Brazil for the demonstration of SiftekTM membrane system for application in sugarcane ethanol production. We are currently developing other partnership with large players in the next generation biofuel, natural gas and biogas industries.
Leverage R&D Investment by Developing Scalable Product Platforms
Our research and development activities are directed towards the development of membrane product platforms that can be applied across a range of target markets and capacities. We believe that this strategy will allow us to efficiently deploy our capital resources and maximize the financial leverage of our R&D efforts.
Disciplined Cash Management
We strive to match our investment in R&D to the expected adoption rate for each of our products under development. We seek to leverage the investment of our own cash resources in R&D with other sources of funding, including government grants and loans, development funding, and engineering service contracts from key joint-development partners.
Listening to Customers
Listening to our customers and understanding their needs in their respective markets is fundamental to success. By doing so, we ensure that we also understand our competitors, which in turn helps us to identify market gaps which the Siftek™ technology can address. This, coupled with careful analysis of the market, ensures that our gas separation products are always designed to satisfy real needs and provide sound, economical solutions.
Environmental Commitments
Both sustainable development and employee health & safety are primary concerns to Vaperma. Sustainable development is fundamental to Vaperma’s long-term strategy. We believe that supplying innovative products & services in a manner that meets the social, environmental, and economic expectations of stakeholders (employees, shareholders, customers, communities, governments, and advocacy groups) creates a solid foundation for increasing shareholder values.
