Public Funding for Distilled Solutions Limited

"The Scottish whisky industry accounts for a quarter of the UK's food and drink exports, penetrating 200 worldwide markets, supporting 40,000 jobs and worth £5bn a year to the UK economy. A key challenge faced by all Global Distillers, International Enforcement agencies & World Health Organisations is the trade in counterfeit branded Spirit & Alcohols. Not only are these counterfeited products damaging to health with many resulting in death, they amount to a significant loss of revenue of 500m to the Scotch Whisky Industry per year. The aim of the project is to enable our existing optical technology to take an optical measurement through the glass from outside the bottle to identify the true authenticity of the alcoholic liquid inside to reduce the volume of counterfeited and potentially dangerous products in the marketplace. Through the project we will model the effect the glass bottle has on the optical spectrum and build a algorithm incorporating this logic to allow our technology to identify the true authenticity of the liquid from outside the bottle. This will allow Distilled Solutions to create the worlds first end to end counterfeit prevention system that can scan through the glass from outside the bottle without breaking the seal with accuracy and confidence identifying the liquids true authenticity and show the presence of any dangerous substances like methanol. Distilled Solutions industry partner William Grants & Sons who are currently integrating the existing technology into their biggest bottling line will test and validate the new resulting algorithm. We are expecting to have 300 devices out in the market place generating revenues of £3.6m resulting in increased revenues of £50m for the distillers by the end of year 3\. This income stream from the distillers will allow Distilled Solutions to distribute it's technology at cost to enforcement agencies and world health organisations to try and reduce and prevent deaths from methanol and denatured alcohol in third world territories where it is most prevalent."

"The scotch whisky industry accounts for a quarter of the UK's food and drink exports, penetrating 200 worldwide markets, supporting 40,000 jobs and worth £5bn a year to the UK economy. A key challenge faced by all global distillers, International enforcement agencies & world health organisations is the trade in counterfeit branded spirit & alcohols. Not only are these counterfeited products damaging to health with many resulting in death, they amount to a significant loss of revenue to the scotch whisky Industry, estimated at 500m pounds per annum. Through the project we will test and improve our current system to allow our technology to identify the true authenticity of the liquid from outside the bottle. This will allow Distilled Solutions to create the worlds first end to end counterfeit prevention system.The system can scan through the glass from outside the bottle without breaking the seal with accuracy and confidence identifying the liquids true authenticity and show the presence of any dangerous substances like methanol."