Business
IMO has solution offerings and business models suited for different types of customers:
- Standard Products. These are affordable microbial solutions intended for use by small and medium sized farms and enterprises.
- Customised Solutions. These are specially developed and tailored to specific customer requirements, often to solve chronic problems which adversely affect productivity. These solutions are very robust and particularly suitable for use by large enterprises, integrated farms and plantations.
- Contract R&D. There are studies commissioned to characterise and analyse the microbial profiles of specific environments, in view of gaining a better understanding of problems and eventually developing robust solutions to solve the problems.
- Cultures. These are microbial isolates and cultures available from the IMO Labs culture collection for purchase by businesses, academic & research instiutions. IMO Labs also offers services for maintaining cultures.
- Bio-Enterprise. This is a training program designed to initiate participants into bio-entrepreneurs by using the power of the life sciences to solve problems encountered in everyday life. We work with budding entrepreneurs to identify pain points, and mine the IMO culture collection to prototype products to solve these pain points. The bio-entrepreneur then proceeds to build a business around the newly prototyped products.
The above business models are offered in a wide range of application areas:
- Agriculture. Microbial inoculants for composting, plant growth promotion and root development, and control of diseases through biological means.
- Animal Health. Natural microbial feed additives for promoting faster growth, reducing feed costs and increase the production of lean meat.
- Aquaculture. Products for treatment of water reservoirs and grow out ponds. Feed additives for healthy growth of cultured species.
- Bioremediation. Biological degradation of hydrocarbon and chemical pollutants.
- Environment. Biological treatment of waste water lagoons in farms and plantations. Treatment of waste water from industrial processing plants. Treatment and maintenance of large water bodies.
- Human Health. Phytosynbiotic health supplements for regulation of blood glucose, cholesterol and uric acid in the body.