Player profiling
34players profiled
Map the field
We profiled 14 client-provided players and 20 new finds at commercial and demonstration scale.
Case Study · Technology Assessment
Bio-oils that can stand in for fossil base oils.
A global specialty chemicals company wanted bio-oils from biomass or plastic waste that could replace fossil-derived base oils in its formulations. Prescouter profiled 34 players, consulted 3 experts and identified a viable process pathway and a promising partnership candidate.
The Client
The client is a global specialty chemicals company. It wanted renewable alternatives to the fossil-derived base oils in its formulations.
The Challenge
Same performance.
New feedstock.
The client needed to compare base oils with bio-oils from routes such as biomass-to-liquid, focusing on fluid properties and process parameters, and to find technology providers or producers for a potential partnership.
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Feedstock
Biomass and plastic waste
Routes that yield usable bio-oils.
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Properties
Fluid performance
Bio-oils compared with base oils.
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Partners
Providers and producers
Candidates for a potential partnership.
Our Approach
Players, pathways and experts, down to one interview.
Pathway analysis
3subject matter experts
Group the technologies
Experts and process parameters such as temperature and pressure helped group each pathway.
Outreach
4companies selected for outreach
Open the conversation
Prescouter reached 3 of the 4 companies the client selected, leading to one detailed interview.
The Outcome
One viable pathway, one promising partner.
Prescouter identified a specific pathway, including primary, secondary and tertiary processes, that can yield bio-oils suitable as substitutes for fossil-based base oils in formulations. The interviewed company emerged as a promising partnership candidate, able to deliver bio-oils with the desired properties after further development.
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Pathway
Three-stage process route
Primary, secondary and tertiary steps.
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Partner
A promising candidate
Bio-oils with the desired properties.
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Next step
Further development
Close the gap to the target specs.
Replacing a base oil is less about finding a green molecule than matching a full process to a performance spec. Mapping the pathways first makes the partner search far sharper.
Let’s Talk
What could your formulations run on next?
Evaluate the bio-based pathways and producers that could replace fossil-derived ingredients in your products. Wherever you’re starting from, we’ll help you get there.
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