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| Request: 66396 | Sustainable Materials for Children's and Infants' Consumer Products |  |
| NineSigma, representing a Global Consumer Goods Company, seeks partners developing or producing resins, polymers, and fibers that are more sustainably produced. Of interest are both materials that can be sampled immediately, as well as responses that describe development or commercial activities to create one or more of the target materials in a way that can enable a sustainability claim. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 08 Oct 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66600 | Monitoring Electrical Usage Commercial Buildings | |
| NineSigma, representing Siemens Industry Inc., invites proposals for cost-effective technologies that can be used to monitor electrical usage in all distribution levels (e.g. breaker panels, sub-panels and local circuits) of commercial buildings and relay this information using wireless communication standards. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 01 Oct 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66615 | Seeking Anti-static Compound to Apply to Fibrous Products | |
| NineSigma, representing a major international fiber manufacturer, invites proposals for improved anti-static compounds for use in its line of fibrous products. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 01 Oct 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66567 | Compact High Performance Automotive Head-Up Display | |
| NineSigma, representing a major automotive supplier, invites proposals for the development and/or supply of compact projection equipment capable of implementing an augmented reality head-up display in the small space available in an automobile. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 30 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 01 Oct 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66531 | Atmospheric Cold Plasma Technology to Functionalize Thermoplastic Materials for Improved Adhesion with Dienic Rubbers | |
| NineSigma, representing a global manufacturing company, invites proposals for the functionalization of thermoplastic materials by atmospheric cold plasma so that they can be permanently adhered to dienic rubbers without using adhesive systems. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 27 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 30 Sep 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66576 | Technology for Densely Depositing Inorganic Fine Particles | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar materials manufacturer, invites proposals for a novel dispersion and deposition technology for applying a densely structured thin layer of diverse inorganic fine particles onto a substrate. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 02 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 27 Sep 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66570 | Iodine-Free Electrolytes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar electronics manufacturer, invites proposals for iodine-free electrolytes for dye sensitized solar cells. Proposed electrolytes should provide solar cell performance equal to iodide electrolytes. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 27 Sep 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66573 | Dye with a Large Absorption Coefficient for Long Wavelengths | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar electronics manufacturer, invites proposals for dyes with a large absorption coefficient for wavelengths of greater than or equal to 600 nm, to be used in dye sensitized solar cells. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 27 Sep 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66114 | Coagulant Polymer: Water-in-Oil Emulsifying Cationic Acrylamide | |
| NineSigma's client, a major Japanese water treatment chemical supplier, is seeking water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion type cationic polyacrylamide (AAM) for paper making retention/ draining aid, waste water coagulant, and sludge dewatering agent applications.
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| View Full Project | Publish Date: 01 Sep 2010 | Deadline Date: 24 Sep 2010 | Status: New | Request Type: RFS |
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| Request: 66543 | Low Cost Drawing Display | |
| NineSigma, representing a Fortune 500 company, invites proposals for low cost display technologies that can facilitate no or low mess drawing or painting. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 20 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 24 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66591 | Bioavailability Boosting Technologies | |
| NineSigma, representing a Top 5 Healthcare Products Company, invites proposals for chemical, biochemical or biological agents that can increase the bioavailability of phenylephrine in humans. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 25 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 23 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66243 | Breakthrough Analytical Methods Development | |
| NineSigma's client is seeking new breakthrough analytical methods development systems in order to improve speed and quality of molecular characterization and the relationship to chemical and physical properties. These techniques will be used to develop methods to speciate aromatics, carboxylic acids, and heteroatom molecules in petroleum. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 20 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 17 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66564 | Seeking Olefin Copolymer Supply | |
| NineSigma, representing a global film manufacturer, seeks immediate supply of a thermoplastic olefin copolymer. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 16 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 17 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFS |
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| Request: 66552 | Kneading, Extruding, and Rolling Technologies for Rubber Sheets | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar materials manufacturer, invites proposals for kneading technology that evenly mixes carbon filler into rubber materials and continuously forms the compound into precise sheets. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 17 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 13 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 60119 | Innovative Packaging to Minimize the Melting of Chocolate Bars | |
| NineSigma, representing Kraft Foods Global, Inc., invites proposals for a protective packaging solution that will minimize or prevent melting of chocolate bar confections in warm or hot climates. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 03 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 10 Sep 2010 | Status: Open | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66456 | Efficient Separation of Water Insoluble Components | |
| NineSigma, representing a major beverage manufacturer, invites proposals for a technology that can efficiently separate insoluble components from concentrated coffee extracts with a goal of minimizing maintenance cost. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 06 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 06 Sep 2010 | Status: Closing Soon | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66510 | Heat Resistant Encapsulation or Coating Technologies | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar food and biopharmaceutical manufacturer, invites proposals for encapsulation or coating technologies with heat and humidity resistance for microbial products. These materials will be used to protect heat-sensitive microorganisms, mainly lactic acid bacteria, mixed with animal pellet feed. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 02 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 06 Sep 2010 | Status: Closing Soon | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66546 | Easy to Swallow Soft Capsules or Tablets | |
| NineSigma, representing a multi-billion dollar major food manufacturer, invites proposals from prospective development partners for easy to swallow soft capsule or tablet technologies for health food supplements. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 02 Aug 2010 | Deadline Date: 06 Sep 2010 | Status: Closing Soon | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66453 | Seeking Poorly Processable Organic Materials | |
| NineSigma, representing a major multi-billion-dollar chemical manufacturer with advanced technology to fabricate organic-based materials, invites proposals from organizations who possess organic materials with poor processing characteristics in order to expand their applications. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 29 Jul 2010 | Deadline Date: 06 Sep 2010 | Status: Closing Soon | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66426 | Seeking High Value Applications of Lignin for Green Chemistry | |
| NineSigma, representing one of the leading companies in the pulp and paper segment in Latin America, invites proposals for development of enabling technologies for new, high value-added applications of kraft lignin. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 22 Jul 2010 | Deadline Date: 27 Aug 2010 | Status: Extension Available | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66555 | Low Noise Vacuum Pumps for Small Consumer Products | |
| NineSigma, representing a Global Consumer Products Company, invites proposals for a desktop vacuum pump and control unit that are both cost-effective and quiet. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 22 Jul 2010 | Deadline Date: 27 Aug 2010 | Status: Extension Available | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66537 | Broad Spectrum Surface Coverage Indicator | |
| NineSigma, representing a Fortune 500 consumer products company, seeks proposals for technologies, systems, and/or methods to indicate that a hard surface has been thoroughly coated by a wiped-on product, without modifying application practices or protocols. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 29 Jul 2010 | Deadline Date: 26 Aug 2010 | Status: Extension Available | Request Type: RFP |
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| Request: 66519 | Plastic Bonding Techniques for Improved Tamper Evident Closures | |
| NineSigma, representing a Global Consumer Goods Packaging Company is seeking proposals for technologies and/or packaging solutions for next generation tamper evident closures on beverage bottles. |
| View Full Project | Publish Date: 15 Jul 2010 | Deadline Date: 20 Aug 2010 | Status: Extension Available | Request Type: RFP |
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