O2 Environmental, the parent company of BlueTech Research, continues to expand its activities in custom research. During face-to-face or online strategic workshops we cooperate with clients to develop a strategy around identifying markets that offer strong, profitable and predictive growth. We help clients unlock synergies and develop new applications by combining the full range of capabilities from across all business. We identify markets opportunities for new entrants in the water and waste water space and work with small and large water corporates to use changes in the competitive landscape to their advantage. For private equity firms we develop criteria to evaluate novel technologies and prioritize investment opportunities.

O2 Environmental routinely get involved in Ideation/Strategic Workshops around the following themes:

  • Mapping of existing technologies to new markets
  • Profiling some of innovative technology players, with a view to flagging investment, acquisition or partnering opportunities
  • Market Entry Strategy Development for new product launches
  • M&A support including acquisition pipeline & watch list development as well as technical due diligence support
  • Competitive Landscape Mapping & Technology Scouting
  • Technology Roadmap Development and IP portfolio review

In all cases, we leverage the foundational materials from the BlueTech Intelligence Platform, our extended databases, and our Technology Assessment Group (TAG) to provide unrivaled support to clients. O2 Environmental is providing a sounding board for our client’s evolving business strategy with an independent review and feedback from our water strategy team.

We find that application development is an attractive way to leverage existing expertise, know-how and products. For water industry incumbents, application development offers the opportunity to find green pastures for current portfolio technologies; examples include: UV and AOP for decentralized direct potable re-use, dissolved air flotation for advanced primary treatment and carbon diversion, and ultrafiltration for aquaculture re-circulation markets.

Some examples of projects that were recently completed:

  • Support of Creation and Development of a new Water Business Unit – Fortune 500 Advanced Material Company
  • Innovation Strategy & Technology Roadmap Workshop – Waste water treatment company, The Netherlands
  • Acquisition Pipeline Strategy Development – Japanese Multi-national
  • Technical Due Diligence membrane company – Client: International Private Equity Fund, Hong Kong Office
  • Commercialization Support for Innovative Low Energy MBR Nutrient Removal Technology – Client: Private Water Utility Company, USA
  • M&A Acquisition Strategy Support and Pipeline Development for an Automotive Industrial Company – Client: Industrial Company, Germany
  • Support of water Investment Strategy – Client: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology Investment Firm, USA

For more information please call Robert Gerard.