Lux Research Difference
The Lux Water Intelligence service is unique because it is:
- Proprietary — offers exclusive insights from primary interviews and site visits
- Opinionated — makes decisive calls about companies and technologies
- Unbiased — obtains objective/independent information and delivers impartial analysis
- Confidential — allows clients to secure information about innovators without revealing their identities
- Cost-effective — costs far less than expensive consultants or a resource-intense internal team
Deliverables
Lux Water Intelligence helps companies make sense of the water landscape and make wise decisions by providing:
- Ongoing technology scouting reports and proprietary data points in the Lux Research Water Journal
- Technology and Market Overviews, Market Forecasts, Financing Outlook, and Key Technology and Adoption Issues delivered via a series of coordinated reports
- On-demand Custom Inquiry with Lux Research Analysts
Lux Research Water Journal
Delivered by email, the Lux Research Water Journal includes:
- Briefings — Profiles of 3-5 key innovators — including start-ups, small-caps, large corporations, and labs — based on site visits and interviews with key executives
- Tidbits — 3-5 items covering important developments and news items
- Alerts — Notices about upcoming briefings with innovators and conferences
- Archives — Clients also have access to archives of past briefings and tidbits via the Lux Research client portal, searchable by company, technology, products, process, and application
Water State of the Market Reports
On a continuous basis, State of the Market reports include:
- Market size — Description and analysis of the present size of key services, equipment, and chemicals, across the value chain
- Market forecast — Estimate of current and past market sizes, and projections of future growth
- Financing — Overview of funding and other key indicators of innovation
- Technology and business model focus areas — Drill-downs and analysis on 3-5 key issues, with implications and recommendations for each
- Outlook — Projections about key upcoming milestones, emerging opportunities
Custom Analyst Inquiry
Clients also have the ongoing opportunity to direct questions towards Lux Research Analysts, answered during conference calls or in email. Analyst inquiry can:
- Provide additional depth on published research
- Support ongoing efforts in technology scouting, screening, partnership search and market assessment
- Allow clients to contact Lux Analysts on an ad-hoc basis
Lux Research designates a client services manager for each client available by phone or email, to facilitate analyst inquiry and provide ongoing client support.
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Sample technologies assessed:
- Advanced membrane technologies
- Reverse osmosis variations
- UV, ozonation, and advanced oxidation processes
- Alternative water collection technologies
- Infrastructure monitoring technologies
- Zero liquid discharge approaches
- Trenchless drilling and in situ rehabilitation
- Water exploration and transportation
- Water metering and rights management
- Desalination innovations (forward osmosis, freeze crystallization)
- Hybrid water/energy technologies
- Sludge management and wastewater mining
Sample applications assessed:
- Secondary, tertiary, and quaternary water treatment
- Wastewater treatment
- Industrial deployment applications
- Residential point-of-entry and point-of-use systems
- Closed loop water recycling/reuse systems
- Desalination
- Infrastructure build-out and rehabilitation
- Disinfection and contaminants removal
- Water reuse
Sample companies assessed:
- Start-ups:
- Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies
- Seldon Technologies
- Microvi Biotech
- Exergy Systems
- MIOX
- AqWise
- NanoH2O
- PureSense
- Mid-sized companies/subsidiaries:
- Siemens
- Veolia
- FilmTec (Dow)
- Infilco Degremont (Suez)
- Trojan Technologies (Danaher)
- Insituform
- Radcom Technologies
- Hyflux
- Pentair
- Kurita Water Industries
- Norit
- GE Water and Process Technologies
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