Build Your Polymer Strategic Alliances with Ohio's Biomedical Assets
Ohio is the best place in the world to optimize the growth of your polymer company because we can imbed you in an asset base that maximizes your bio/medical market strategy. And BioOhio knows Ohio’s assets, incentive programs, and corporate, academic, state, and local contacts better than anyone. We can be the strategic alliance connection for your company’s site selection, talent recruitment, supplier network, expansion, and partnership needs. Now, onto Ohio’s polymer assets…
Access to world-class supply chain
As the historic “rubber capital of the world”, your supply chain is here to reduce your costs and provide your company access to a wide range of alternatives. Ohio is home to more than 60 compounders, more than 250 mold makers, and large equipment manufacturers. Ohio has a complete supply chain from design all the way to production, packaging and shipping.
Working in Good Company
Avery Dennison | Blackhawk Automotive Plastics | Goodyear Tire & Rubber | GrafTech | Kent Displays | Lubrizol Corporation | Milacron | Molded Fiber Glass Companies | Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | Noveon, Inc. | Owens Corning | Parker-Hannifin | PolyOne Corporation | Sherwin Williams
World Class Leadership in Technology and Research
Ohio boasts strong cooperation between the academic and corporate industry spectrums. Our world-class research institutions will give you access to the most cutting edge technologies. Ohio has two internationally-renown research institutions and 7 universities performing research and offering degrees in polymer and polymer processing. Five community colleges offer programs in polymer and polymer processing technology.
Battelle is one of the leading contract research institutions in the world serving the needs of both government and industry with strong materials expertise and allied technologies.
Case Western Reserve’s Macromolecular Institute is conducting groundbreaking research encompassing the synthesis, processing, theoretical and computer modeling and structure-property relationships of polymeric materials.
Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute is the U.S.’s No.1ranked liquid crystal research facility. It is the birthplace of the modern LCD industry.
University of Akron’s College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is ranked as the No. 2 polymer science program in the country.
University of Dayton Research Institute, with a focus on materials research, is one of the largest research institutions of its kind and conducts R&D in composites and advanced polymer technologies.
Other schools with programs specifically related to polymers include University of Cincinnati, Shawnee State University, Terra Community College, University of Toledo, and more
Annual savings up to $3.1 million by locating in Ohio
New Ohio tax code encourages business investments, and rewards companies for global selling: Eliminates tangible personal property tax and corporate franchise tax • Exemption from taxation sales outside the state of Ohio (i.e. exports)
Bioscience Funding
- Nearly $2.4 billion was invested in 2010 across Ohio to accelerate bioscience growth, making it the second highest year since tracking began in 2004.
- Since 2004, over 170 investment groups have invested more than $1.1 billion of private equity into 211 Ohio bioscience and health care-related companies.
More than $110M in Ohio’s Public-Private Polymer Partnerships
Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices
- $100 million investment, seeded with a $22.5 million grant from the State of Ohio Third Frontier project to research, develop and commercialize nanocomposites, polymer-based biomedical devices, and polymer photonics
- Academic collaborators Kent State University, The Ohio State University, University of Akron, University of Dayton, University of Toledo, Wright State University contributed over $28 million
- Industry collaborators including Advanced Elastomer Systems Limited (ExxonMobil), Ashland, Boeing, Delphi, Goodrich, Goodyear Tire, Honda, Lockheed Martin, MeadWestvaco, Milacron, Noveon, and Timken contributed nearly $49 million of support
Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center
- $11.5 million grant from the State of Ohio Third Frontier awards, leveraged with matching funds from external partners to develop renewable specialty chemicals, polymers/plastics and advanced materials
- Collaborators include Albemarle, Inc., Cargill, Cooperative Business Council, Cooper Tires, Delphi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Ohio Polymer Strategy Council, Ohio Soybean Council, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, The Scotts Company, US Department of Agriculture
The leading state in the U.S. in attracting new businesses and expanding facilities.
- Ohio won Site Selection magazine's Governor's Cup 4 consecutive years (2006-09) and placed second in 2010.
- 4th largest interstate highway system in U.S. Ohio is within a day’s drive of 80% of U.S. Corporate Headquarters and 63 percent of U.S. manufacturing facilities
- 10 designated Foreign Trade Zones
Labor: Available and Educated
Ohio is home to more than 2,400 plastics and polymer establishments employing over 130,000 people. Ohio’s labor force of 5.6 million workers is among the largest in the nation, including 800,000 manufacturing workers, 733,000 education and health services employees
Ohio is also home to over 62,500 direct bioscience jobs and confers over 6,300 total engineering degrees each year.
Informatics Prowess
- Ohio Supercomputer Center – a resource for computational high performance computing and networking
- OSCnet – 1,600-mile fiber optics network, the most advanced research and education network in the nation
- daytaOhio – a $14M Wright Center of Innovation for advanced data management and analysis
Connect and Collaborate with Polymer Industry Networks
PolymerOhio unites and supports polymer companies to enhance their capabilities and improve their competitiveness. By fostering evolution to value-added product, technology advancement, and workforce development, PolymerOhio seeks to enhance Ohio’s position as a center of excellence for polymers worldwide. www.polymerohio.org
Building Your Polymer Strategic Alliances with Ohio and BioOhio
This is only a snapshot of the biopolymer related facts across Ohio. Contact BioOhio, Ohio’s bioscience development organization, to learn more and to discuss bi-directional investment opportunities and how building strategic alliances with Ohio can impact your bottom line.