Disrupting fine chemicals manufacturing with catalyst-coated tube reactors

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Stoli Catalysts Ltd is an innovative UK award-winning innovative SME, a spin-out of University of Warwick (UoW). Our team comprises of leading academics in the field of reaction engineering and catalysis led by CEO with significant commercial experience and supported by two industrial experts. Stoli Catalysts patented catalyst coating technology has the potential to halve the manufacturing costs across the Fine Chemicals industry. It delivers high mass and heat transfer rates in reactions providing higher reactor utilization and efficiency promising to disrupt this industry. Stoli Catalysts’s coating technology can be applied to a wide range of catalysts covering more than 90% of the needs of fine chemicals industry. The initial addressable market of €317 M comprises manufacturers of fine chemicals (nutraceuticals, agrochemicals & speciality chemicals). Professor Evgeny Rebrov (founder) was awarded with 2 ERC grants, totalling €1,400,000, to develop, validate, perform the feasibility study and demonstrate the market potential of his ground-breaking technology: ERC Starting Grant 279867–RFMiFiCS “RF-enhanced micro processing for the fine chemicals synthesis using catalysts supported on magnetic nanoparticles” and ERC Proof of Concept 693739–MiCARF “Multi-tubular Catalytic Reactor for Flexible Production of Fine Chemicals”. Stoli Catalysts was supported to date by the Business Ready program of the UoW Science Park and funding from Innovate UK, Warwick Ventures, Mercia Technologies PLC as well as from direct product sales, in-kind contribution from industrial partners (DSM and Vapourtec) and consultancy projects. The two ERC projects brought the innovation to TRL 7, and after obtaining promising results from the feasibility study, we are applying for the SME Instrument PH2 funding to scale up the technology in the industrial environment and reach TRL9.