Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOES20240417006
- Term of Validity
- 19 April 2024 - 19 April 2025
- Company's Country
- Spain
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- Spanish engineering RD company created a patented technology for saving water at home or businesses using individual hot water heaters. After several years in the Spanish market, the company seeks companions for license or distribution agreements in European countries, USA and Canada.
- Full Description
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The company is an RD engineering enterprise specialized in product development and business strategy and innovation consultancy. The company has created and patented an evolving technology whose mission is to become an standard in sustainable and smart home constructions. This technology helps users in theses installations to save water in many ways, even when they are not aware.
The developer is also the manufacturer of the devices, which are built in Spain currently. The benefits of this condition, is that is very easy for the creator to customize the technology for different markets and add new functions to the hardware/software, meaning that what this technology already offers will eventually increase, expanding the market segments our partners can reach to.
The company has been selling the product in Spain, and now seeks new partners for the European countries, USA and Canada. Within Europe, the most interesting regions are Germany, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Netherlands and Belgium. Besides, the company would be keen on listening to propositions from other European regions besides the above-mentioned.
As the technology can be installed in new-built and existing buildings, the target market includes the final users (homes and businesses using hot water) and the residential construction and promotion companies, like building or installation companies or Real Estate agencies.
The company is interested in license or distribution agreements with partners in the selected areas. For them, the company offers:
- Product manufacturing and supply
- Possibility of product customization
- Technical and commercial know-how to help your customers to acquire the product
- Technical training for the partners - Advantages and Innovations
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This technology-based innovative company has developed a modular device that attaches to an existing plumbing installation and helps the user to save water. The current commercial version of the technology saves water every time the user wants hot water, as it avoids the wastage of cold water that occurs until hot water reaches the desired tap. This happens using a recirculation technique that does not require a double branch (two pipes for hot water: consumption and return) and which is activated only when the user wants hot water, avoiding the high energy consumption of traditional equipments, even the programmable ones.
The patented technology has many unique features:
- Modular: the device is formed by up to 5 different types of modules that attach to the installation in different layouts to get the benefit the user is looking for in any kind of installation and individual water heater (with tank or tank-less; solar, electric, gas, fuel...).
- Low energy consumption: the recirculation cycle is only active when the user wants it.
- Visual notifications: when the water is ready to be used.
- As many activation points as wanted (App Mobile).
- It can be added to construction projects so that the technology gets pre-installed inside the walls for a more elegant finishing. (It is indeed in Building Information Modeling (BIM) software Autodesk's Revit database and others).
- If installed in an existing plumbing installation, no jobs are required, as the technology does not need any additional pipes or tanks to work properly.
And many others related to its target buyers: final customers, business using hot water (like hostels, hair dressers, camping sites, etc.) and residential construction companies or Real Estate agencies.
As an RD company specialised in product development, the company is able to customize the device for the target market or customer. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionGoal 11: Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGoal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The Spanish company is looking for a reliable distributor or licensee in the construction or
installation hardware market, such as manufacturers/distributors of sanitary equipment, taps
and valves, domestic appliances, home automation, water heaters and related products and
services (like architects, efficiency analysts, etc.) that are normally added to buildings during
the project stage, the construction stage or after the building (house or establishment) has
been finished and occupied (including refurbishing companies).
The partner should have at least 5 years of expertise in the field, in order to assure proper
assistance and commercialization of the product. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49Big companySME <=10SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Call details
- Coordinator required
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Yes
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 10004008 - Water Resources Management10004012 - Water in Buildings
- Market keywords
- 09004004 - Hardware, plumbing supplies09003004 - Distributors, imports and wholesalers09007004 - Engineering and consulting services related to construction09007002 - Manufacture of construction materials, components and systems09007003 - Distribution of building products and systems
- Sector Groups Involved
- Construction
- Targeted countries
- All countries
Files
Water Home automatation solution
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