I think your best bet is to sample people from the lab, get customer validation/feedback, and start talking to contract manufacturers. This might be challenging if your customer wants you to provide 1-2 lbs for free. Spend as much time here as possible really figure out what your business looks like and if it's viable. Figure out the prices your customers are willing to pay and understand your manufacturing costs down to every hour of cycle time. If your business doesn't make money here figure something else out.
Also, figure out the rules on new chemicals in your specific country. If you are in the US do you need to do a PMN and would you qualify for low volume exemption once you started trying to sell.
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I think your best bet is to sample people from the lab, get customer validation/feedback, and start talking to contract manufacturers. This might be challenging if your customer wants you to provide 1-2 lbs for free. Spend as much time here as possible really figure out what your business looks like and if it's viable. Figure out the prices your customers are willing to pay and understand your manufacturing costs down to every hour of cycle time. If your business doesn't make money here figure something else out.
Also, figure out the rules on new chemicals in your specific country. If you are in the US do you need to do a PMN and would you qualify for low volume exemption once you started trying to sell.