Cellulose Nano Crystals (CNC), Biobuilding blocks for tomorrow’s materials
Dr. Shaul Lapidot, Co-founder, CEO
Melodea at a glance
• Founded in 2010 by researchers from the Hebrew University
and Swedish industrialist from the composite industry
• Developed proprietary technology for production and
CNC and development of applications
• Investment and partnership with HOLMEN AB, Sweden.
• Process development in Israel
• Semi industrial pilot plant is being built in Sweden
• Strong IP portfolio
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CNC production technology
Melodea’s unique technology allows efficient and sustainable extraction of
CNC from cellulosic materials
Cellulosic raw materials;
wood pulp, paper waste,
flax, cotton and more
Chemical processing
CNC product 
applications
Melodea’s process is unique to include recycling of up to 95%
of the chemicals, saving costs, and minimizing the
environmental production impact
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How is CNC produced?
Controlled acid hydrolysis of cellulose results in degradation of the
amorphous regions and release of the crystals termed “CNC”
Method For Production Of Cellulose Nano Crystals From Cellulose-Containing Waste
Materials PCT/IL2011/000613
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CNC Product Properties
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Transparent dispersions of nano particles in water
Dimensions: 5-20 nm width, 150-400 nm length
Self assembly to gels, films and foams
Additive for enhancement of various materials
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From lab to industrial production
Current production status
2013
• Started the development with lab scale
process
2014
• Mini pilot built in Melodea in 2014, capacity of
Kgs/batch, providing samples to costumers
2014-2016
2016-2017
• Intensive scale up activity in TAMI IMI, Israel
• Construction of the pilot plant in Örnsköldsvik
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Scale up in Israel
From lab to industrial production
Future development
2017
• pilot manufacturing in Sweden, build
more partnerships
2019
• Construction of flagship plant in Israel
~200 ton/year
2019
• License the technology to build plants
of several tons/day
• Produce CNC at affordable cost for high
volume applications
2020-
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Pilot plant being built in Örnsköldsvik
• First CNC pilot in Europe, capacity of 100 kg/day announced
• Being built at MoRe research in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
• Collaboration between Melodea, Holmen, MoRe research and SP
Sweden.
• Launch is expected at Q2 of 2017
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Melodea CNC technology key
advantages
 Low capital expenditure (CAPEX) and simple operation
(OPEX)
 Major saving on water and chemicals
 Acid recovery, low environmental impact
 Industrially viable process
Product development key points
 Identify industrial needs
 Identify key CNC based enabling technologies
 Industrial partnership is required for product
commercialization
 Strong partnership with the academia, Prof.
Shoseyov’s group, as innovation and IP generator
Product development model
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
• Introduce CNC to identified partners
• Define initial proof of concept project
• Define full scale project
• License the right to use Melodea CNC
in the new product
Phase 4
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CNC product development
Enhancement of paints
Transparent flexible films
Barrier coating for
advanced packaging
Additive to plastics
(bio-based and synthetic)
Paper and board, cosmetics, 3D printing cement and more…
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Fiber reinforcement
Foams for composites
and construction
Fiber reinforcement coatings
Tensile testing of cotton fibers
140
X-linker, + CNC
120
Stress (Mpa)
100
80
X-linker, no CNC
60
40
Control
20
0
0
5
10
15
Strain (%)
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High strength transparent CNC films
Crosslinked CNC film
CNC film
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CNC films, flexible and transparent
Bend
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Release
Hydrophobic CNC
 Development of novel proprietary hydrophobic CNC
formulations
 Ac-CNC is dispersible in variety of organic solvents
 Can be used for hydrophobic CNC coatings as additive
for compounding and more
Transparent dispersion of Ac-CNC
AFM Ac-CNC
in ethanol
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Our development team
Dr. Clarite
Azerraf, CTO
Yuval Nevo
Senior
scientist
Zvi Miller
Process
engineering
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Tal Ben
Shalom
researcher
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Our team
Melodea’s Founders
Dr. Shaul Lapidot
Co-founder, CEO
Prof. Oded Shoseyov
Co-Founder Prolific
inventor, extensive
experience in nanobiotechnology
Tord Gustafsson Cofounder, well known
expert in composite
materials
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Our team
Senior management
Ilan Biran Chairman,
wealth of experience
in business
management from
the financial, telecom
and defence
industries
Jean Moreau, CPA, CA
Business Development Advisor
Extensive leadership in various
fields including CNC
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Ways to collaborate with us
• Joint product development
• licensing our CNC production technology
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information
Thank You
Contact us:
[email protected]
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