Advanced Light Technologies has strategic relationships with the University of California at Davis, and California State University at Chico, and has recently completed materials science testing in conjunction with Rutgers University to advance our polymer sterilization technologies. These alliances support us with research facilities, manpower, and equipment.

The University of California at Davis has received a $393,000 grant for a three-year study to research our processes for efficiency, pest control, and rice quality. The study will also evaluate our processes with onions and garlic, as well as with grape waste for use as animal food.

Advanced Light Technologies also has a joint venture with Sunsweet, Inc. This venture offers us a demonstration platform for our technology in agriculture and food processing, and assists us with funding for research and development in sterilization for the food and beverage industry. Sunsweet also supports us with funding for new patent applications.

We have also entered into a cooperative venture with Sunsweet, and several optical detection and sorting companies, to couple their technology with ours. This enables us to improve the process of identifying and excluding foreign material or sub-standard or defective products from processing lines.

Additional alliances and partnerships will continue to be developed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture, and the Health and Human Services Department for the purposes of patent protection as well as expediting approval processing.