Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Laurence Alexander from Jefferies.
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
I guess, first question just wanted to see if ADM gave you any additional color on the upper bound of the cost of the facility.
Richard Eno
No, I think, what we are doing at this point is maintaining north of 300 million and that’s what we are concluding at this point, but when we change that we’ll be sure to let you know.
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
All right. But it wouldn’t be as much as a full-scale world class, ethylene-polyethylene complex, for example.
Richard Eno
We are just going to say, north of 300 now Laurence just...
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
Fair enough.
Richard Eno
To be consistent.
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
And, I guess secondly can you given, as you think about the next six to nine months as the facility launches. What kind of news flow should we be expecting from your existing announced partners? I mean in prior calls you’ve discussed the potential for new announcements from larger partners. But what are you expecting for the current partners to do?
Richard Eno
Current partners, by current partners you mean those who we have already made customer announcements around?
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
Exactly.
Richard Eno
Well I think there is certainly, we acknowledged that we have a Fortune 500 consumer products company. We hope that at some point in that time period we can provide a lot more color on that company and those applications. And as things that our existing customers go to market we certainly can let you know a little bit more about adoption of those. Granted, they’ll be at a much lower level than we would expect through Clinton. So I think that’s what you would see from our existing customers. Over the coming months as we get new customers we’ll announce them and new certifications we will like be sure to let you know. But in terms of existing customers it would be those type of things.
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
And lastly with the potential extension of the platform into non-woven or foam applications, can you give us any update on progress on that or any technical hurdles that you’ve run into?
Richard Eno
I mean, it’s the classic polymer development process. There are, these products have not been produced at scale yet. And the product development team is doing a real nice of job of identifying things that will enable those products to be saleable at commercial scale. But I don’t think there is anything we’ve seen that is dramatically different than any polymer development process that you would normally see, and we are still very enthused about the market potential for both foam and non-wovens in the long term.
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