predecessor zyvex corporation founded 2007 headquarters columbus ohio united states number of locations richardson texas rapid city south dakota key people james r. von ehr ii chairman and founder ; lance criscuolo president parent zyvex divisions zyvex marine website http zyvextech.com zyvex technologies formerly zyvex performance materials zpm is a molecular engineering company headquartered in columbus ohio . zyvex technologies focuses on developing advanced materials including prepreg epoxy resins and adhesives . contents 1 history 2 divisions and developments 3 customers 4 references 5 external links history edit zyvex technologies is a privately held company and does not publicly report its revenue or all of its customers . it has supply chain and operational partners in ohio texas south dakota and washington . they are a 2007 spin off from zyvex the world s first molecular nano technology company . 1 in 2009 zyvex technologies shared a 4.9 million grant from the ohio third frontier program . 2 this funding goes toward developing advanced nano enhanced plastics with polyone corporation as well as advanced resin systems with hexion specialty chemicals . in october 2010 zyvex performance materials changed its name to zyvex technologies . 3 divisions and developments edit their engineered solutions team develops special applications of nano materials in composites . historically carbon nanotubes cnts and graphene were inherently strong but considered difficult to use in materials because of molecular bonding challenges . zyvex technologies is notable for having developed molecules that solve these dispersion problems with its kentera technology . 4 zyvex s advanced composites solutions team helps develop products built from proprietary technology . one more notable project is the piranha unmanned surface vessel usv . this 54 foot boat weights 8 000 lbs and has three times the payload and ten times the range compared to other usvs built from traditional materials such as aluminum . 5 zyvex formally launched their marine division zyvex marine on november 4 2011 to handle all boat creation activities . 6 customers edit zyvex technologies supplies materials and provides new product development support to customers in many markets including defense marine automotive coatings energy aerospace sporting goods medical and ballistics . easton sporting goods was the first public commercial customer for zyvex technologies offering a successful line of carbon nanotube enhanced baseball hockey and bike equipment with the label powered by zyvex . the cnt technology from zyvex made the products lighter stiffer and stronger . in the year of its release forbes magazine selected it as a top 5 product of the year . in 2008 lockheed martin announced a partnership with zyvex technologies to develop advanced materials for use on some of their defense and commercial application projects . in 2010 zyvex technologies was selected by outerlimits offshore powerboats to provide advanced resin systems for their line of high speed high performance luxury speed boats . the entire product line is built using an exclusive vacuum bagged carbon fiber reinforced lamination schedule now cured with zpm epoxy resin solutions . references edit bounds jeff 19 april 2007 . zyvex splits up will move one unit to ohio . dallas business journal . retrieved 25 february 2010 . zyvex polyone win important grant awardzyvex polyone win important grant award . ohio polymer . retrieved 25 february 2010 . zyvex performance materials announces new company name zyvex technologies . 4 october 2010 . retrieved 4 november 2010 . sloan jeff 10 december 2009 . the key to cnts functionalization . composites world . retrieved 25 february 2010 . pirahna usv built using nano enhanced carbon prepreg . reinforcedplastics.com . 19 february 2010 . retrieved 4 november 2010 . zyvex technologies launches new maritime division zyvex marine . pr newswire . 4 november 2011 . retrieved 15 november 2011 . external links edit zyvex technologies piranha usv retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zyvex technologies & oldid 624601605 categories companies based in the columbus ohio metropolitan areachemical companies of the united statesmanufacturing companies based in ohionanotechnology companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2014 at 23 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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