Opportunity for investors
OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS
INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS FROM CHITOSAN AVAILABLE FOR
INVESTMENT
PARQUE DE DESENVOLVIMENTO TECNOLÓGICO
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Opportunity for investors
QUITOPASTA
Features
Developed Technology.
Patent Deposited .
New product with strong functional appeal.
Available raw material.
Each 100g (portion) of Quitopasta can block 27g of fat
(=240Kcal)
Product developed waiting partner to launch in the
market.
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Description
Pasta with Chitosan
Functional food with fat blocker
First Pasta cholesterol lowering of the market.
Blocker calories to food
Natural product
Expansion
Potential
Calorie Blocker.
Weight loss products.
The functional food market.
Food and baking industry.
Quitopasta is the first cholesterol lowering pasta in the market. Developed and
patented by graduated company Polymar, Quitopasta has a fiber called Chitosan
in its composition that acts as a fat blocker and cholesterol-lowering agent.
Opportunity for investors
HEMOBAND
Features
Produced with chitosan derivatives and collagen.
Patent Deposited .
Available raw material.
Homeostatic agent of high efficacy.
Quick external control of moderate and severe bleeding.
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
Technology for production of novel hemostatic bandages .
Low production cost.
High efficiency.
Potential
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U$ 1,5 millions/year - sales
No competitor producer in the country
Widely used by the pharmaceutical industry
Estimated domestic market - 60,000 bandages / year
Developed and waiting trading partner.
Novel homeostatic bandages, produced using combination of chitosan derivatives
and collagen. Designed to stop bleeding in moderate and severe accidents and
surgical procedures.
Opportunity for investors
HERBAL ANTI-HERPES
FEATURES
New Antiviral Herbal against Herpes .
Produced from Spondias mombim
Technology developed and available.
Patent deposit in INPI
Low production costs
Raw material available and plentiful.
RESEARCH
LABORATORY PROTOTIPE
START-UP
MARKET
Description
Development of a new antiviral herbal from the active
principles of de Spondias mombin.
Potential
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No similar product in the market.
Only in Brazil there are 54 millions of herpes
carriers.
Potential revenue: US$ 9,0 millions/year*
* 50.000 un/month – Admitting to reach only 0,1%
of the Brazilian potential market..
New antiviral Herbal against Herpes from Brazilian plant Spondias mombin ready to go to
the market.
Opportunity for investors
PERFUMOSSOMES
Features
Produced with chitosan derivatives and essential oils
Patent Deposited .
Available raw material.
New class of deodorant
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
New technology for internal deodorant.
Imparts pleasant odor to transpiration
Eliminates bad breath.
Also works as Fat burner.
Low production cost.
High efficiency.
Potential
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U$ 1 million/year - stimated sales
No competitor producer.
Huge potential market
Estimated domestic market - 60,000 bottles / year
In the market and waiting trading partner.
New patented product developed using a combination of chitosan and essential oils
from brazilian biodiversity, used as internal deodorant and fat burner.
Opportunity for investors
NATUFLEX
Features
• Produced from chitin.
• Available raw material.
• Agent for regenerating joints damaged by physical
activities or natural wear and tear (osteoarthritis)
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
• New Technology for production of joint cartilage
regeneration.
• Formula combines chondroitin-rich cartilage with
glucosamine.
• Low cost and high efficiency.
• Scientific Support (Book)
Potential
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Potential revenue: $ 3.8 million / year
Product developed and launched on the market.
Waiting for trading partner.
NATUFLEX acts as a supplement of Glucosamine and chondroitin, the only known
substances efficient in the osteoarthritis treatment. Regenerates cartilage tissue
and acts to prevent the disease, it may be associated with anti-inflammatories.
Opportunity for investors
FUNCTIONAL COSMETICS
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Research
Laboratório
Protótipo
Start-up
Basis for novel cosmetic market.
Produced with patented technology
Technology developed and available.
Patent applications filed at INPI
Low manufacturing cost
Raw material available and plentiful.
Expansion
Description
• New bioactive materials and cosmetics
(cosmeceuticals) made with chitosan gels and
its derivatives with extracts from the Brazilian
biodiversity.
• To be used in: sunscreen, moisturizers,
shampoos, healing creams for burns.
Potential
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No competitor in the country
Clients: Cosmetics industry.
Potential revenue: not determined.
Bioactive basis for bioactive cosmetics market (cosmeceuticals). Gels using
Chitosan and its derivatives and extracts from the Brazilian biodiversity.
Opportunity for investors
OLIGOSACCHARIDES
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Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
New production process
Raw material local and available.
Technology available.
Low manufacturing cost
Antineoplasic unprecedented in the country
Expansion
Description
• Development of chitosan oligosaccharides
with antineoplasic properties
• Process developed in laboratory scale.
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No competitor in the country
Brazil spends U.S. $ 1.0 billion / year in antineoplasic
(Datasus)
Potential revenue: $ 5.8 million / year *
* 1% of the market potential.
Chitosan oligosaccharides with antineoplasic properties, unprecedented in the
domestic market.
Opportunity for investors
POLY-PROTECT
Features
• Post-harvested protection of fuits and
vegetables.
• Increase the shelf-life of agricultural products.
• Bactericial and fungicidal actions..
• Increase fruit resistance to fungi invasion.
• Cost reductions in post-harvested
• Biocompatibility and biodegrability
•eatable
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
• Active ingredient for use in agriculture and
foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Easy to
apply, high affinity and increases the resistance
against attacks by fungi and bacteria. Ideal for
post-harvest formulations.
Potential
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No competitor in the country
High internal demand
Fruits and vegetables protection after harvesting, by applying the diluted solution of
chitosan derivatives in the form of spray or immersion in solution on the harvested
products.
Opportunity for investors
CHITOSAN BEADS
Features
• High efficiency in oil remotion.
• New technology.
• Can be used in storage petroil tanks cleaning.
• Cleaning of ship tanks.
•Recovery of raw materials
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
• Chitosan beads for use in bioremediation of impacted
areas with oil spill .
• Remotiion of petroil and its derivatives from water.
• Allows oil and chitosan recovery
• High perfomance
• New technology for bioremediiation.
Potential
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No competitor in the country
High international demand
Market in expansion
Chitosan beads developed to be used in bioremediation of impacted areas with
petroil and its derivatives. Low cost tecnology
Opportunity for Investors
ICE DREAM – The Ice cream that slims
Features
Ice-Cream Premixtures (several flavors) containing a
carbohydrates blocker. (Phaseolamine)
1g of Phaseolamine inhibits the conversion of 567g of
carbohydrate in sugar.
Tecnology developed and available.
Low production costs
Raw material available.
Research
laboratory
Prototipe
Start-up
Market
Description
Potential
Ice cream premixtures for functional ice cream
production with calories blocker.
Available technology transfer.
New and revolutionary product.
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Technology transfer or premixtures sales.
Growing market.
High Consumer appeals
New product
High sales potential
Delicious revolutionary Iced Cream which cut calories.
Opportunity for investors
CHITIN AND CHITOSAN PLANTS
Features
Self-sustaining units
Strong environmental appeal
Technology developed and available.
Low cost of deployment
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TRITUADOR
Research
Laboratory
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
• Waste processing units for crustacean shells.
• For production of natural polymers with high added
value.
• Eliminate serious environmental problem, generating
revenue and jobs.
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No competitor in the Country
Clients: Shrimp farming industry in the country and
the world.
Potential revenue = $ 1.4 million / year
Technology for development and construction of plants for processing crustacean
shells for production of natural polymers with high aggregated value.
Opportunity for investors
RUTIN AND QUERCETIN PLANTS
Features
Flavonoids with high demand in the international
market.
New technology without solvent use.
Technology developed and available for transfer..
Low production costs.
Raw material readly available.
RUTIN
Research
Laboratory
QUERCETIN
Prototype
Start-up
Expansion
Description
Tecnology for Rutin and Quercetin production from
Dimorphanda mollis. (Fava D´anta)
Project for industrial or pilot plant for these flavonoids
extraction.
Products with great use by the pharmaceutical industry.
Potential
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Potential for production of another rutin derivative
with higher value.
Increasing market.
Stimated sales: U$ 3 millions/year
Technology for development and construction of plants for production of Rutin and
Quercetin, flavonoids largely used by the pharmaceutical industry.