Lots of small-scale competitors. Many nanopowder enterprises. Ours has the potential to be a very low cost process that scales very well. Our technology has been described as disruptive . It s very hard to break into the industry.
Many companies still don t believe that the cost is justifiable.
It used to be government, but now it s exclusively private funding. They are pretty much the only company that does metal and mixed-metal powders. There is a need to convince manufacturers of the value proposition that nanomaterials provide. It is still available, but not as widely as it was a couple of years ago.