Radient's Competitive Advantage
Compared to competing conventional extraction methods, Radient's EPI platform offers some combination of the following four inter-related advantages:
- Reduced processing costs
- Improved existing products
- Potential for new products
- Environmental benefits
Reduced Processing Costs
The key variables that allow Radient to reduce processing costs are typically some combination of the following attributes:
- Faster processing
- Higher active compound recovery
- Improved purity
- Improved selectivity
- Solvent flexibility.
The impact of increasing the recovery from a processing run is typically the most effective way to lower costs. The effect of these attributes is that the client, or Radient, can use much less raw material input than is the case using conventional extraction platforms.
In addition, since the Radient process is generally much quicker than the competing technologies, typically achieving excellent results in a short single stage extraction, more throughput is possible for a fixed period of processing time typically delivering meaningful cost reduction results.
Improved Existing Products
The Radient Solution allows clients to make improvements to their products in several meaningful ways, including:
- Increased active recovery
- Increased purity
- Reduced heat degradation
By increasing the active recovery or the purity of the compound being targeted, Radient allows its clients to offer higher grades of their existing products. This ability may mean that an existing compound can be targeted for new uses. The Company has demonstrated that it can increase active recovery from, for example 65% to 95% when compared to conventional extraction processes. Also, by reducing the heat degradation, Radient can improve the effective yield of a target compound from a process and can ensure that the resulting compound has retained more of its efficacy after processing.
Potential for New Products
Radient's clients are constantly seeking new products that can be derived from their existing natural source material inputs. However, limitations in the technology and application of the existing extraction processes precludes the recovery of some potentially high value compounds due to their composition or their properties in relation to the properties of the biomass that surrounds them. The ability of MAP™ to target very specific components of the biomass for heating and its ability to complete this heating quickly without affecting other compounds permits the extraction of compounds that previously were extremely difficult or impossible to extract effectively, or to have the target compound retain more of its necessary attributes so as to make it a commercially viable offering. Additionally, Radient's ability to utilize different solvent systems to achieve similar or even superior results can also lead to new product opportunities.
