Founded in 1890 by a pharmacist from Epernay (Marne), the Institut Œnologique de Champagne (IOC) was one of the first companies to specialise in oenological products. Since then, IOC has grown and was bought in 2008 by the Lallemand Group (a Canadian group), which specialises in the development, manufacture and marketing of yeast and bacteria. “We launched the Tanninov project in 2017,” explains Bertrand Robillard (now a consultant after having been R&D manager at IOC). “The final objective was to be able to meet consumer demand for quality wines, without bitterness or astringency, while p ..read more

Founded in 1979, the FILAB laboratory specialises in the fields of chemistry and materials. With 85 employees today, the laboratory intends to continue its development of cutting-edge technologies and to double its workforce in the next five years. “We are a service provider laboratory in the field of chemistry and materials,” explains Benoît Persin, one of the company’s five partners (along with Jérôme Goux, Thomas Rousseau, Céline Milot and Hubert Vittoz). “We work for the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics and food industries, as well as for major French and European research centres.” FIL ..read more

Founded in 2017 and based in Geneva, Deasyl is an ambitious start-up, convinced that green chemistry represents the future of chemistry. Provided it can be made economically competitive. “At Deasyl we are convinced that green chemistry is the future of chemistry, it is an inevitable and necessary transition,” explains Salima Fassi, Vice President of Deasyl. “We are developing processes to replace polluting processes in the chemical industry (petrochemistry and fine chemistry), while being economically viable. This is of course an imperative. Our business model is based on selling our patents t ..read more

The Communauté d’agglomération du Beauvaisis has made the strategic, clear and determined choice to develop resilient agricultural, energy and industrial sectors on its territory. An ecological and economic choice for the future that it is making in partnership with all the local economic players. For Matthieu Alaime, Director of the Economy, Higher Education and Innovation at the Beauvaisis Agglomeration Community, the project is exciting: “We are developing a highly territorial ecological and economic strategy in consultation with all the local economic players. We have in our territory majo ..read more

Human health, animal health, environment, agriculture… The Departmental Laboratory for Analysis and Research (LDAR) of the Aisne Departmental Council is a centre of scientific expertise recognised in France and in over 20 countries! “Our laboratory is just over 130 years old! It was born from the merger of the Aisne agronomic station, the veterinary diagnostic laboratory and the hydrology laboratory. The Aisne agronomic station, created at the end of the 19th century, was the source of many agricultural advances and developments. I am thinking in particular of the nitrogen forecasting method ..read more

Interview with Olivier DAUGER, Climate-Energy Referent of the French Chamber of Agriculture, President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Chamber of Agriculture, President of the Bioresources community of B4C.   What is the situation with regard to water? The pressure on water is increasing. This resource, which we thought was abundant and easy to exploit, is very much impacted by climate change. We are experiencing increasingly recurrent rainfall problems, and our water tables are rapidly weakening. This obviously raises the question of crop irrigation, but not only: water is also used ext ..read more

The bioeconomy is not only about the economic valorisation of biomass. In the full sense of the term, the bioeconomy implies a profound transformation of economic models, in order to build productive ecosystems that ensure an efficient loop of material and energy cycles, while minimising negative externalities. Capturing the full potential of the bioeconomy implies a systemic change, i.e. a radical shift in the positioning of a large number of actors. The territorial approach to economic development, which consists in favouring local links and local resources, is a privileged way of leading su ..read more

Created in 2016 following the acquisition of patents from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, SurfactGreen offers a complete range of biobased cationic surfactants. In 1984, before the creation of the SurfactGreen start-up, two scientists graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR), Daniel Plusquellec and Thierry Benvegnu, started to develop 100% green surfactants from natural raw materials. In 2011, Thierry Benvegnu created the business unit named Surfact’Green, with the aim of assessing the market attractiveness. SAS SurfactGreen was established ..read more

Founded in 2018, Alysophil aims to offer a new approach to the chemical industry that combines continuous flow processes and artificial intelligence implemented in micro-factories. Philippe Robin first became interested in chemistry when he was a child: “At the age of 11, I was fascinated by my first chemistry experiments. Since then, the passion has never left him. “After several years in the traditional chemical industry, from lab manager to company president for large groups, I noticed that the chemical industry was faced with more and more technical, regulatory, safety and budgetary constr ..read more

More than ever, it is necessary and urgent to transform our production and consumption models in order to meet the many challenges we must collectively face: Combating global warming and its consequences; meeting the new food, energy and health needs of a constantly growing population; mitigating the scarcity of oil resources and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels; to preserve the earth’s ecosystems by ensuring and guaranteeing the continuity of a sustainable production system that benefits the greatest number of people; to ensure the training of future generations, to create jobs and wealt ..read more