Canatu: The Next Finnish Technology Breakthrough?
My guess is that one of the Finnish technology breakthrough companies for 2010 will be Canatu's team, lead by CEO David Brown. Canatu produces and sells a new class of versatile carbon-based components to OEMs and brand names. These components are based on carbon nanotubes and a novel NanoBud nanomaterial. The key competitive advantages of Canatu's components include low cost, high performance and a diminished environmental footprint for optical and electrical devices. For instance, Canatu's components are 25 times stronger than steel, 1000 times more conductive than copper and heat twice as well as diamond. The environmentally friendly aspect covers both the production and recycling process. And finally, the production of these components can be industrially scaled.
