Eco-Shelter's proprietary technology shifts unit economics away from traditional building material industry standards.  Based on press capacity, it yields a fast cash conversion with 53 percent gross margin and 23 percent net margin in emerging markets like India and an impressive 88 percent gross margin in developed countries like the US. The unique nature of Eco-Shelter’s unit economics is that each press, with a capital cost of $200,000 and annual operating cost of $325,000, can produce over 75,000 sheets of material at more than $4.5 million revenue and over $1 million in gross profit. The growth of press capacity with product scale, will continue to improve the economics. 

Eco-Shelter has and will continue to bring together a global team of the best and brightest in tech-engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and operations. Eco-Shelter’s strengths include sales, marketing, human-centered design, and product development. Eco-Shelter’s team and advisors bring experience launching new products internationally, as well as establishing international manufacturing facilities (including in India). The technology has been developed by the leading scientists who bring decades of experience in composite material engineering. 

Our Go-To-Market strategy in India and the US is to sell through channel partners and building material distributors. In India, we have seen strong market validation from end-users and conducted dozens of interviews with building material retailers and distributors. One distributor which has shown interest has capacity to distribute over 500 tons of material, an estimated $800,000 of gross revenue. There are thousands of similar distributors and traders within India. 

In the US, architects play a critical role in early market adoption specifying the product in building designs. Eco-Shelter has secured LOIs from the City of Tacoma, Ferguson Architects, and Green Home Solutions as early Go-To-Market partners in the Pacific Northwest. Ferguson Architects has committed to specify the product in 5 unique building designs once proof-of-concept installations are complete and ASTM certification is complete. Residential projects are expected to generate approximately $20,000 in product sales and commercial projects, $400,000. Eco-Shelter will continue to build strategic partnerships with architects to specify the product in building designs and Greenhome Solutions (Seattle) has committed to being a distribution partner.