All businesses ultimately must confront the reality of limited resources.  A company is often warned about stretching itself too thin.  One must focus.  AEB got that advice and understood the importance of focusing on a few industries where electron beams could solve important problems, the value proposition was strong, and there were partners willing to innovate and work with us to bring our product to commercial use.  After an intense evaluation period we decided to focus on surface sterilization in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and food and beverage packaging industries, curing and polymer treatment in the printing and packaging, industrial coatings, and industrial materials industries, and Volatile Organic Compound destruction in the pollution abatement field.  These areas are where we have concentrated our sales and marketing efforts, attending trade shows, holding seminars, and doing customer outreach.  We have gained traction in these areas and are moving to production use in several of these areas with major corporations.

But that's not all electron beams can do. We have found that our electron beam technology can sterilize air, perhaps to combat terrorist uses of biological agents.  It can destroy odors, improving the quality of work facilities and avoiding disturbing neighbors of certain types of manufacturing plants.  It can help fight food contamination outbreaks and extend the time food stays fresh while on the shelf thereby reducing the enormous amount of food that is thrown out because it has gone bad before it's consumed.  Electron beams might be able to convert methane into hydrogen in a way that produces no CO2 or possibly convert CO2 into a useful industrial gas.  Chemical engineers might be able to design chemical structures to work well with electron beams.  Nanotechnology structures might be able to be produced more effectively with electron beams.  Perhaps electron beams will be on the tail pipes of industrial machinery or even automobiles one day.

As we extend our technology and make our beams smaller, larger, stronger, higher voltage, lower voltage, and less expensive there will be even more applications that will be possible.  Perhaps even a kitchen unit to sanitize utensils.  Or perhaps a huge one can go on a power plant to make it zero emissions. We will always look for partners that want to develop these applications with us.  If you have an idea for a novel application of electron beams let us know.  But for now we're focusing on making manufacturing processes more sustainable and more profitable in our core markets.