Oxford Advanced Surfaces Group Plc (“OAS”) develops and commercialises advanced material solutions that are cost effective, simple to implement, and which deliver valuable changes to the functionality of all kinds of surfaces via our platform surface modification technology. We use proprietary highly reactive chemistry, ONTO®, in combination with polymers and/or particles to provide solutions that deliver both enhanced performance and also enable new, highly cost effective, opportunities.
Founded in June 2006 by Dr. Mark Moloney and Dr. Jon-Paul Griffiths, Oxford Advanced Surfaces was a spin out from the Chemistry department at the University of Oxford, one of the largest chemistry research laboratories in the world. The initial development of the ONTO® technology began over a decade ago at the University and it has continued and expanded through OAS.
The company is located at the Begbroke Science Park in Oxford where we have fully equipped laboratories both for initial material design and synthesis as well as applications and process development. We have a mix of solid industrial expertise and a dedicated team of chemists and material scientists delivering world class innovation with quality and speed.
While our flexible platform technology can be applied across a very broad range of markets, we focus on applications where technical proof of concept has been established and which deliver not only dramatic performance improvement but which do so with significantly improved economics for our customers. We believe these technologies make absolute sense in the current business environment and position us uniquely in the market place.
The company is developing advanced material solutions for a range of applications including:
We work in close partnership with our customers to develop new opportunities for, or bespoke solutions to, their manufacturing challenges. Our business model is based around the licensing of our technology and therefore we tend to work with major industrial corporations on applications at the cutting edge of technology.
This demands a period of customisation and technology transfer which is done in partnership with our clients, from Proof of Concept though to Mass Production. Our business model is based on technology license and our partnerships are funded through up-front and milestone payments, although where applications or substrates are novel or where more technical challenges exist we would engage in a funded joint development programme.
Some of our technologies (e.g.: adhesive primers, super-adhesives, anti tarnishing coatings) have reached a stage of development where they can be made available with little further adaptation under a milestone and license agreement.