How We Help Clients
Our research is precisely focused on emerging technologies and materials that innovation leaders need to know about to make their existing products more sustainable.
We know the current status and future projections for end-of-life solutions and can devise product strategies to match those solutions.
We understand how demand for materials is going to change based on regulations and consumer sentiment for a given product or packaging category.
The Lux Difference
We have the best coverage of end-of-life technologies on the market today, which makes our research and advice stand apart. We utilize unique and proprietary models to assess these technologies, and our singular voice of realism in the market is one innovators trust. By studying startups and market-leading corporations, we identify and isolate patterns and emerging technologies that nobody else can see.
Client Outcomes
By identifying technologies, we introduce innovation leaders to their innovation funnel; we fuel their tech scouting and improve the performance of their innovation discovery process.
We encourage meeting CO₂-reduction, recycling, and other sustainability goals desired by innovative business leaders.
We identify new opportunities for growth or increasing market share.
We mitigate the risk of going out of business from inattention to changes driven by sustainability.
Featured Case Study
Identifying Potential Short-term Offtakers and New Emerging Markets for a Biobased Intermediate Chemical Product
The client had a large surplus of a biobased intermediate chemical to sell on the market or take a loss on inventory and needed to find immediate offtakers as well as identify more stable markets to sell into. The client asked Lux to think through all the potential new uses of the biobased intermediate within a 1–2-step chemical synthetic pathway.
Selected Topics We Cover
- Ammonia
- Biobased Plastics
- Biobased Intermediate Chemicals
- Biobased Specialty Chemicals
- Biodegradable Plastics
- Blockchain
- Carbon Dioxide to Chemicals
- Carbon Dioxide to Concrete
- Carbon Fiber Recycling
- Chemicals Manufacturing
- Circular Building Materials
- Decarbonization of Heat
- Depolymerization
- Low-Carbon Hydrogen Generation
- Novel Biomaterials
- Packaging Design and Materials
- Plastic Waste Management
- Process Intensification
- Product Identification or Anticounterfeiting Technologies
- Product Personalization
- Pyrolysis
- Synthetic Biology
- Textile Recycling
- Vehicle Lightweighting