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BlueInGreen
BlueInGreen offers equipment that incorporates an innovative new approach for cost effective dissolved oxygen delivery. The supersaturated dissolved oxygen (or SDOX™) systems offer low capital and operating costs, precisely controlled delivery of dissolved oxygen at a wide range of target concentrations, ease of operation, and virtually 100% gas utilization efficiency (no off-gassing) for wastewater treatment and other environmental water applications. Up to 80% operating cost savings have been documented as compared to conventional oxygen delivery technology.
BioDetection Instruments
The mission of BioDetection Instruments is to improve the safety and quality of the world's food supply by providing the highest performance biosensors, assay kits and instruments for rapid detection of food pathogens and chemical residues. The company’s Aegis™ biosensor system provides an unparalleled combination of low detection limits (down to 10 cells/mL) and speed (1 hour) for the identification and quantification of pathogenic bacteria in food and drinks.

Duralor
Duralor is producing high performance coatings and coating processes for cutting tools and machine wear parts. Duralor’s award winning technology, exclusively licensed from NanoMech, LLC, includes the TuffTeK™ extreme wear resistant coating product line which provides a breakthrough increase in performance. TuffTeK™ coated tools can improve tool life 300% or more compared to conventional coatings, and will compete for a portion of the $20 billion global cutting tool market.

GuardINFresh
GuardINFresh’s purpose is to commercialize a patent-pending process for innovative shelf life extending polymers. Our technology benefits perishable produce and floral products by scavenging the ethylene gas that hastens ripening. We will provide growers, distributors, retailers, and consumers with value-added packaging solutions that reduce waste, extend shelf life, and greatly improve the taste and appearance of fresh produce. Our vision is to change the way people think about sustainability in the fresh produce and floral supply chain through the widespread use of products containing our freshExtend™ Solutions.

GeneFab
GeneFab is developing innovative uses of DNA oligonucleotides and nanomaterials for a wide range of applications, including cancer therapeutics, biomedical devices, DNA memory and computing.

Minotaur
Minotaur Technologies is a biophotonics company whose mission is to develop new laser-based instrumentation for life sciences research. The company is developing instruments that are applicable to a broad range of cell biology problems in neuroscience and beyond, including chemotaxis, stem-cell differentiation and in vitro testing of cellular response to emerging treatments.

NanoMech
NanoMech is a designer and manufacturer of innovative application specific nanoparticle additives, nanoparticle-based coatings and coating deposition systems that can be used in a variety of critical industry sectors. Many of the company's key products are based on a patented technology that allows very small particles to be applied to surfaces in coating form, creating coatings that have extremely beneficial properties. In the coating process the individual particles, known as nanoparticles, can be 1,000 to 10,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. These nanocoatings can be engineered to have valuable properties such as extreme wear resistance, self-lubrication, corrosion resistance, bio-compatibility, and many other attributes important to a wide range of applications. Some of these applications include hard coatings for cutting tools and wear parts, high-strength ceramics, adaptive coatings for military and industrial applications, improved implant surfaces for medical and dental implants, and other applications that are only now emerging in this rapidly expanding field.

Nutraceutical Innovations
Nutraceutical Innovations is developing applications of a patent pending process for value-added processing of rice bran and other food sources. The company is developing nutraceutical ingredients such as protein, phenolics and prebiotics that have numerous potential health benefits including antimutagenicity, anti-cancer properties and hypertension reduction.

SFC Fluidics
SFC Fluidics' mission is to provide unique microfluidic technologies that enable ever more powerful laboratories-on-a-chip, analytical tools, clinical diagnostics and life science research instruments. SFC Fluidics’ laboratory-on-a-chip devices are used with a highly portable readout instrument, and together they provide affordable, portable diagnostics capability with low operator skill requirement. This innovative technology has broad applications including automated detection of infectious and non-infectious disease and injuries.

Vegrandis
The mission of Vegrandis is to improve world health care, security and the environment by providing high performance biological and chemical detection systems that are affordable and simple to use. The company’s vision is to leverage its technology innovation to become an international leader in micro-electrochemical detection based biosensors. Vegrandis’ approach combines microfabrication, biochemistry, immunology, and engineering with electrochemistry to meet the demands of rapid, sensitive, and low cost assays for medical and environmental detection of proteins, DNA, whole cells, and microorganisms.