Sector

Circular Economy

Line of Business

Flexible and mobile units for wastewater treatment

Founders

AvOre (Steven De Laet) and Raf De Wil

Registered Office

12A Zandvoortstraat,
2800 Mechelen

InOpsys develops and builds flexible, modular and mobile units for onsite toxic wastewater treatment. This unique concept combines expertise, the use of existing and clean technologies as well as a new approach to waste management. In this way, InopSys helps chemical and pharmaceutical industries to reach their sustainable development goals.

The expertise comes from the KU Leuven, the technologies are acquired on the market or developed by AvoRe (one of the founders of InOpSys). The innovative approach consists of bringing the installation to the location where the water has to be treated by truck (Plant-On-A-Truck).

For more information: InOpSys

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Management services for legal documents and reports on the environment, health and safety for different industrial sectors including chemistry.

Founders

Thierry Levintoff and Michel Hemberg

Registered Office

42A Boulevard de la Sennette,
7190 Ecausinnes

Combining a flexible technology that is easy to use, based on the Microsoft .NET platform with the latest regulatory content, Lisam provides innovative, affordable and rapid solutions to the environment, health and safety (EHS) challenges faced by manufacturers, distributors and users of chemical and cosmetic products.

In cooperation with the associations and partners from industry, Lisam has developed proprietary and vertical EHS solutions for chemicals, chemical speciality products, cosmetics, aromas, detergents, paints, coatings, plastics and the energy industries. Today, more than 900 customers in industry count on the Lisam flagship software, ExeSS®, to manage their safety datasheets and their labels, designed for all the main commercial markets and available in 50 languages.

For more information: Lisam

Sector

Processes – molecular separation and analysis

Line of Business

New generation liquid chromatography column

Founders

Paul Jacobs, Wim De Malssche, Gert Desmet and Joeri Denayer

Registered Office

Technologiepark, 3 Zwijnaarde,
9052 Zwijnaarde

PharmaFluidics is a spin-off of the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels (VUB) and has benefited from initial PMV/SOFI and Qbic financing to the tune of EUR 1.25 million.
The company has developed a new type of liquid chromatography columns (in the field of mixture separation and analysis) which shows a significant advantage compared to existing columns: ease of use, standardisation, efficacy and potential development to measure.

The company is refining these columns further, has obtained recommendations from laboratories and opinion leaders in the field, and markets them in the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

For more information: PharmaFluidics

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Industrial process analysis, monitoring and prediction application

Founders

Bert Baeck, Noël Jans, Thomas Dhollander and Tom Coen

Registered Office

297 Kempische Steenweg B3,
B-3500 Hasselt

TrendMiner has developed an application which analyses and monitors in real time the temporal series of production parameters. TrendMiner is used to predict certain production anomalies by relying on the (predictive) recognition of historical patterns and search of similar historical patterns to help explain the causes of production deviances. TrendMiner “learns” by relying on parameters provided by the operator.

For more information: TrendMiner

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

Application of a single layer in calix (4) arene for post-functionalisation.

Founders

Alice Mattiuzzi

Registered Office

Rue Auguste Piccard 48
6041 Gosselies

X4C has developed a new technology for applying a single layer on a substrate and for the post-functionalising of the substrate. This concept leads to a strong covalent bond between the substrate and the functional element.

The technology was developed in the organic chemistry laboratory of the Free University of Brussels under the direction of Professor Ivan Jabin.

For more information: X4C

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Development of a bio-stimulant to foster resistance to abiotic stress in crops

Founders

Juan Carlos Cabrera Pino, Guillaume Wegria

Registered Office

Allee de la Recherche 4
1070 Bruxelles
Belgium

Fyteko has discovered a molecule that induces better resistance to abiotic stress in a number of crops.

The scientific research was carried out by the founders.

For more information: Fyteko

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

Nanomaterials in colloidal solutions

Founders

Frederic Chaput, Julien Alberici

Registered Office

22 rue des Aulnes
69410 Champagne-au-Mont-d’Or
France

Mathym has developed a technology to produce easy and safe to use colloidal nanoparticles as ingredients in medical composite materials. The first products came on the market in 2017.

The underlying research was carried out by Frederic Chaput at ENS Lyon and Essilor.

For more information: Mathym

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

3D Printing/additive manufacturing

Founders

M4ke.it, Matthias Hick, Edouard Moens, Kevin Eckes

Registered Office

Rue d'Abhooz 31
4040 Herstal
Belgium

Aerosint is working on an industrial prototype that improves the material efficiency of SLS 3D printing. Aerosint is collaborating with a number of blue chip companies to bring multimaterial 3D printing to the market.

For more information: Aerosint

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Procedures, work instructions and checks made paperless and mobile

Founders

Peter Verstraeten, Steven Serneels

Registered Office

Heidebergen 20
9830 Sint-Martens-Latem

Proceedix develops, markets and sells a digital solution to enable procedures, work instructions and checks to be carried out paperless and mobile. The software allows to very easily transform paper instructions into a set of digital instructions. The level of details of the various steps can be adjusted by the operator according to his/her level of experience and/or comfort.

Proceedix works best as a cloud solution and is tailored for visualisation on desktops, laptops, phones, tablets or smartglasses.

For more information: Proceedix

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Wearables

Registered Office

Lamorinierestraat, 123
2018 Antwerpen

Iristick designs smartglasses for the industry. The Iristick qualifies as safety glasses, can be fitted with prescription glasses and allows the user to handle complex tasks while communicating hands-free, getting instant access to information and sharing data with other operators.

For more information: Iristick

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Allergies

Founders

Anne-Catherine Mailleux, Pierre Buffet

Registered Office

Clos Chapelle aux Champs 30
1200 Bruxelles

AllerInvest commercialises through pharmacists a kit to prevent allergies to dustmites. The regular application of the treatment to the bedding reduces the allergic response of the patient and allows him or her to sleep much better.

For more information: Acar’up

Sector

Materials Technology/circular economy

Line of Business

Back washable flat sheet membrane

Founders

Patrick Vanschoubroek, VITO

Registered Office

Gerard Mercatorstraat 31
3920 Lommel

Blue Foot Membranes is a scale-up company which provides water-intensive industries with the technology to reuse water.
IPC™ membranes are the worlds first fully back washable flat sheet membranes. Installed in existing as well as in new membrane bioreactor, IPC™ membranes can double the output capacity per square meter and lower the aeration cost by at least 50% of your existing or future MBR.

For more information: Blue Foot Membranes

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

Reinforced carbon fibres

Founders

Michael Callens and Niels De Greef

Registered Office

Diependaalweg 4a
3020 Winksele
Belgium

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Veterinary products

Founders

Enrico Bastianelli

Registered Office

Rue Auguste Piccard 48
6041 Charleroi
Belgium

TheraVet  is a biotech start-up company, created in November 2017 which develops innovative treatments for high unmet medical need osteoarticular conditions (e.g. bone, joint, tendon/ligament) for small companion animals such as dogs. TheraVet’s mature product portfolio is composed of innovative synthetic, biological and cellular products developed from clinical stage and marketed human products.

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

Catalysts

Founders

Danny Verboekend, Martin d'Halluin, Bert Sels, Bert Lagrain, Carl Van Camp

Registered Office

Lelielaan 4, 3061 Leefdaal (Bertem)

Zeopore Technologies NV is a start-up company developing and commercialising a unique and proprietary zeolite “mesoporisation” technology, that significantly improves their efficiency in catalytic refining and petrochemical processes. Its key differentiator is the ability to retain the intrinsic properties of the zeolite, while performing the “mesoporisation” via an industrially and economically viable process.

The main benefits are a higher output of desired chemical products, combined with a lower energy and raw materials consumption, leading to a significantly better performance of the customers production process.

For more information: www.zeopore.com

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Biologicals manufacturing technologies and production

Founders

Jose Castillo and Hugues Bultot

Registered Office

Rue Auguste Picard 48
6041 Gosselies
Belgium

Univercells is a technology company delivering novel biomanufacturing platforms to make biologicals available and affordable to all.

Univercells provides customisable solutions for viral production (human and veterinary vaccines, gene therapy vectors, oncolytic viruses), biosimilar monoclonal antibodies and enzyme replacement therapies.

The technology aims to significantly reduce the infrastructure footprint to offer cost-effective production of high-quality biologicals for small to medium size markets.

For more information: http://www.univercells.com

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Industrial process analysis, monitoring and prediction application

Founders

Maarten Weyn, Jan Coppens, Carl Stevens and Glenn Ergeerts

Registered Office

The Beacon
Sint-Pietersvliet 7
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

Aloxy offers a modular IIoT platform for the process and chemical industry.

Aloxy provides tools to improve safety and efficiency, automate processes and to deliver actionable insights into industrial operations.

The initial product line consists of a wireless position sensor for manual valves and a platform to monitor the status of assets during shutdowns and regular maintenance.

Aloxy is a spin-off of imec and University Antwerp.

For more information: http://www.aloxy.io

Sector

Circular economy

Line of Business

Transformation of organic waste into protein, oil and chitin

Founders

Johan Jacobs

Registered Office

Registerde Office in Belgium:

Slachthuisstraat 120/6, 2300 Turnhout

Sector

Processes, Circular economy

Line of Business

Emissions control technology

Founders

Mario Michan, Bjorn Asplind, EPFL

Registered Office

Chemin de la Venoge 7
CH-1025 Saint-Sulpice, Vaud
Switzerland

Daphne Technology SA is a spin-off from The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) incorporated in 2017 with headquarters at the EPFL Innovation Park.

Daphne’s technology is being developed with support from the Swiss Plasma Center and the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Daphne is currently industrializing its technology in collaboration with a leading European shipping company and expects to start marketing its scrubbers in 2019.

Daphne’s technology transforms air pollutants into valuable by-product, reducing operating expenses in a sustainable manner.

Sector

Medical devices

Line of Business

Dosimtery equipment for cancer therapy

Founders

Emiliano d'Agostino, SCK-CEN

Registered Office

Agoralaan Abis
3590 Diepenbeek

DoseVue was established in 2013 as a spin-off company of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN) with the aim of developing innovative technologies for convenient and accurate quantification of irradiation doses in the course of medical interventions.

For more information: www.dosevue.com

Sector

Circular economy

Line of Business

Organic waste processing; production of Vermicompost and biostimulants

Founders

Jean-Pierre Tondreau, Beaudouin de Selliers & Gembloux Agrobiotech

Registered Office

2 Passage des Déportés
5030 Gembloux
Belgium

PurVer produces and sells vermicompost and derived products. PurVer is to become the European leader in that market.

For more information: www.PurVer.be

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Bone cements

Founders

Aurelien Valet, Sebastien Genesta

Registered Office

415, rue Claude Nicolas Ledoux
13854 Aix-en-Provence

Graftys develops, manufactures and markets patented synthetic orthopedic biomaterials, in particular a new generation of resorbable calcium-phosphate cements for reconstructive surgery. The bone cement market is one of the fastest growing sgements of the orthopedic market. The company’s key products are commercialised in more than 25 countries, including Europe and the United States of America.

For more information: www.Graftys.com

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Individual patient response characterisation in clinical research

Founders

Dominique Demolle, Alvaro Pereira and Chantal Gossuin

Registered Office

11 Rue Granbonpré
1348 Louvain-La-Neuve

Tools4Patient addresses the interferences caused by individual response in new therapies clinical research. Its objective is to reduce the failures of clinical tests due to placebo effect, hence reducing the cost of clinical research.

Placebell is the first product marketed.

For more information: Tools4Patient

Sector

Biosciences

Line of Business

Pre-clinical stage biotechnology

Founders

Gael Jalce (PhD), based on a patent co-developed with INSERM and Paris-Sud University

Registered Office

Brussels South Charleroi Biopark
Rue Adrienne Bolland 8
6041 Charleroi
Belgium

Apaxen is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing unique anti-inflammatory therapeutics with a primary focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It developed a first-in-class small molecule inhibitors of pleiotropic pro-inflammatory cytokine “Macrophage migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF)”, a crucial regulator of innate immune responses. Apaxen’s lead compound MFC-1040 has a unique mechanism of action and has the potential to revolutionise the standard of care of PAH and other diseases related to chronic inflammation.

For more information: Apaxen

Sector

Materials Technology

Line of Business

Spark Plasma Sintering process

Founders

Romain Ephere and Yannick Beynet

Registered Office

51 rue de l'innovation
31670 Labège (Toulouse)
France

Created in 2016, Norimat has developed an innovative over-moulding process based on Spark Plasma Sintering technology (SPS). The company uses breakthrough technology developed by the CIRIMAT laboratory (CNRS Toulouse).

The company currently exploits five different patents. All these skills around the SPS process are sold to clients in the aeronautics, aerospace, defence or luxury industry.  In Europe, Norimat is the first player to bring out SPS flash sintering “from the laboratory” to a industrial level.

For more information: Norimat

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Continuous productions technologies for the pharmaceutical sector

Founders

Pr. Benoit Scheid, Adrien Dewandre, Youen Vitry, Jean Septavaux, Bart Rimez, Olivier André

Registered Office

Fond des Més 4,
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Secoya Technologies is a spin-off of ULB. It has a portfolio of 4 technologies covering the key steps of the drug production process: continuous reactions, crystallisation, pervaporation and droplet generation.

The unique value proposition of Secoya is to:

(i) bring down these unit operations at the sub-millimetric scale to take benefit of a rigorous control of the operating conditions;

(ii) rely on continuous processing and smart scale-up to ensure production rates compatible with industrial needs; and

(iii) offer 4 complementary technologies.

Secoya will develop more synergies between the different steps.

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Microfluidics

Founders

Jean-Louis Viovy and Jacques Lewiner

Registered Office

67 Avenue de Fontainebleau
94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
France

Fluigent is a French company leader in controlling accurately pressure and flow in multiple channel chips. Fluigent was the first company to introduce pressure pumps to the microfluidic research market, as opposed to conventional syringe pumps. Today, Fluigent develops, manufactures and supports the most advanced microfluidic full pressure and flow-rate control systems available, designed for coupled multi-channel configurations.

More information: Fluigent

Sector

Medical devices

Line of Business

Scanning, modelling and 3D-printing of splints and casts

Founders

Louis-Philippe Broze and Florian De Boeck

Registered Office

120 rue Saint-Denis,
1190 Forest
Belgium

Created in 2017, Spentys develops an interactive 3D-printing and 3D modelling platform (SaaS) that allows medical practitioners to design tailor made immobilisation devices, replacing splints or casts. It reduces the gap between 3D technologies and the practitioners’ medical environment. The orthopaedic device, called Polycast, is produced in 3 steps: 3D scan of the patient’s limb, 3D model of the specific device, 3D print onsite or in a Spentys production facility.

The final product considerably improves the quality of life for patients as it is tailor made, waterproof, light, aerated and recyclable.

More info: www.spentys.com

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Industrial processes conception, asset management, training

Founders

Matthieu Egloff and Nicolas Vertommen

Registered Office

Rue d'Alost 7
1000 Brussels
BELGIUM

OUAT! aims to facilitate the digital transformation of the life sciences industry. In increasingly intelligent and connected factories, OUAT! enables the men and women of the biopharmaceutical industry to achieve operational excellence using virtual reality technologies.

HakoBio, the intuitive 3D platform of OUAT! enables to create and operate the digital twin of a factory and to achieve operational excellence throughout its life cycle. This platform is dedicated to the biopharmaceutical industry and contains a database of more than 1000 specific equipments. It brings a gain in time and efficiency in the development of a production chain. It is used for planning and visual simulation of processes, for immersive learning and for interactive, simplified and centralized data management.

OUAT! is supported by the Brussels Region (hub.brussels, Innoviris, SRIB), the Innovation Fund, the European Commission and My Innovation Center.

For more information: http://hakobio.com

Sector

Processes, Information Technology

Line of Business

Data Analytics

In stealth mode

Sector

Medical devices

Line of Business

Neurorehabilitation of the upper limb for patients suffering from brain injuries

Founders

Julien Sapin

Registered Office

Avenue Sabin 3
B - 1300 Wavre

Axinesis has 3 CE-marked devices in its portfolio:

REAplan is an end-effector robot, offering more than 1.000 movements per hour, for use in hospitals and intensive rehabilitation centers in the days and weeks following the brain injury.

REAtouch is an intensive functional rehabilitation device, stimulating bimanual rehabilitation. Its use is foreseen for the weeks following the intensive rehabilitation.

REAtouch Lite completes the product portfolio with a device to be used at home.

The three devices are linked with a software which allows a ludic rehabilitation for the patients and an easy follow up for the therapists.

For more information : Axinesis

Sector

Materials Science

Line of Business

Natural acoustic and thermal insulation materials

Founders

Pierre Pouppez de Kettenis

Registered Office

HOME EOS sa/nv
rue de Fontenelle, 2
B-6240 Farciennes

T + 32 (0) 71 37 63 80

Thanks to its highly innovative Stop Sound technology, awarded “Solar Impulse Efficient Solution” and “Greenov”, Home Eos produces mass loaded membranes in viscoelastic biobased polymers. Those noise barriers provide high performance in terms of acoustic insulation, vibration dampening and fire resistance. Key end-markets are transport, construction and industry.

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Inspection of internal defects and characterisation of material’s physical and chemical properties.

Founders

Thierry Antonini and Christophe Archier

Registered Office

256, rue de Thor
34000 Montpellier
FRANCE

Leveraging a new domain of electromagnetic waves – T-rays (TeraHertz) – and a breakthrough technological innovation from collaboration with the CNRS in Montpellier, Terakalis designs and manufactures generic and custom-made products/system for analysis and control in the heart of the material. Their business is the inspection of internal defects and the characterisation of the material’s physical and chemical properties.

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Gas & environmental sensing solutions at low cost

Founders

Thomas Walewyns & Yann Danlée

Registered Office

Rue Louis de Geer, 6
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Vocsens is a spin-off of UCL, which develops a disruptive gas & environmental sensing solution providing highly reliable and qualified data (selectivity and specificity), at a very low cost. The solution increases autonomy, both in terms of remote calibration/maintenance and reduced power consumption (> 5 – 10 years). The objective is to produce gas sensors which can detect up to 16 different gasses (besides temperature & humidity), 50 times cheaper, 100 times smaller and 1000 times less consuming than current gas and environmental sensors.

For more information : www.vocsens.com

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Additive Manufacturing

Founders

Water Grzymlas

Registered Office

2 rue de l'Etang
5326 Contern
Luxembourg

Saturne Technology is a subcontractor of blue-chip industrial companies (Alstom, Safran, Alfa Laval…) for the Additive Manufacturing (AM) of high-quality metal parts. Saturne covers the whole process, from the selection of materials to the delivery of the finished products to the customer.

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Non-intrusive sensors for composite materials

Founders

Jean-Claude Lenain

Registered Office

Espace Teknica
Parc Technologique de Soye
4 rue Galilée
56270 Ploemeur
FRANCE

SENSE in® develops and markets innovative monitoring solutions of composite parts based on non-intrusive resistive sensors integrated into the heart of composite structures during their manufacturing process.

Sector

Process Technology

Line of Business

Droplets microfluidics

Founders

Stéphanie Van Loo & Geoffrey Holsbeek

Registered Office

Giga B34
Av. de l'hôpital 11
Liège 4000
Belgium

Sector

Materials technology

Line of Business

Aerogel producer and technology provider

Founders

Francisco Ruiz

Registered Office

203 Rue du Général de Gaulle
68440 HABSHEIM (France)

Keey Aerogel aims at becoming the European leader in the production of high-quality aerogels(1), at low price (-40% to -70% compared to present market prices), and with a low carbon footprint. The company patented a continuous production process of aerogels and the use of construction waste as a raw material, replacing silica.