Our Part­ners

Spon­sors

Spe­cial Sponsor

PLATINUM

Clariant

Clari­ant is a focused, sus­tain­able and innov­at­ive spe­cialty chem­ic­al com­pany based in Mut­tenz, near Basel/​Switzerland. On 31 Decem­ber 2021, the com­pany employed a total work­force of 13 374. In the fin­an­cial year 2021, Clari­ant recor­ded sales of CHF 4.372 bil­lion for its con­tinu­ing busi­nesses. The com­pany reports in three busi­ness areas: Care Chem­ic­als, Cata­lys­is and Nat­ur­al Resources. Clariant’s cor­por­ate strategy is led by the over­arch­ing pur­pose of​‘Great­er chem­istry – between people and plan­et’ and reflects the import­ance of con­nect­ing cus­tom­er focus, innov­a­tion, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and people.

The Clari­ant Biotech & Renew­ables Cen­ter, loc­ated in Planegg, Ger­many, devel­ops solu­tions for biocata­lys­is and biore­finery. The innov­a­tion focus here is on the energy-effi­­cient and resource-sav­ing devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of bio-based chem­ic­als and fuels. Clari­ant has developed the sun­li­quid® tech­no­logy that uses enzymat­ic hydro­lys­is fol­lowed by fer­ment­a­tion to pro­duce second-gen­er­­a­­tion bioeth­an­ol, so-called cel­lu­losic eth­an­ol, from wheat straw or oth­er agri­cul­tur­al residues.

Since July 2012, Clari­ant has been oper­at­ing a pre­com­mer­cial plant in Straub­ing, Ger­many, which pro­duces up to 1,000 met­ric tons of cel­lu­losic eth­an­ol every year, con­firm­ing tech­nic­al and eco­nom­ic performance. 

In Septem­ber 2018, Clari­ant broke ground for its first-of-its-kind com­mer­cial facil­ity in Podari, Romania, which is now com­pleted. Clari­ant licenses its sun­li­quid^® tech­no­logy plat­form globally. 

So far, five license agree­ments have been con­cluded with renowned industry play­ers in Slov­akia, Poland, Bul­garia and China.

Semmelweisstraße 1
82152 Planegg
Germany

Phone: +49 89 710 661 0

Email: biotech@clariant.com

Web: http://www.clariant.com

PLATINUM

UPM GmbH

UPM is lead­ing the bio and forest industry into a new, sus­tain­able and innov­a­tion-driv­en future. Our products are made from renew­able raw mater­i­als and are recyc­lable. The Group con­sists of three busi­ness groups: Energy & Pulp, Paper and Engin­eered Mater­i­als. The com­pany employs around 24,000 people and oper­ates pro­duc­tion facil­it­ies in 16 coun­tries. UPM’s sales exceed EUR 10 bil­lion per year. UPM’s shares are lis­ted on the Hel­sinki Stock Exchange.

Georg-Haindl-Straße 5
86153 Augsburg
Germany

Phone: +49 821 3109 0

Email: info@upm.com

Web: http://www.upm.com

SILVER

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB

WR was formed in 2007 through the mer­ger of sev­er­al long-estab­lished law firms and prac­tice groups. The lead­ing firm in the fields of mech­an­ic­al and auto­mot­ive engin­eer­ing, Wallinger and Part­ner, led by Dr. Michael Wallinger, joined forces with the chemicals/​pharmaceuticals prac­tice group of Dr. Math­i­as Rick­er (formerly IP Coordin­at­or Europe at the major law firm Jones Day in Munich).

Since its found­a­tion, the firm has grown fast-paced. In par­tic­u­lar, WR’s know­ledge base has been strengthed by exper­i­enced indus­tri­al law­yers from the bio­tech­no­logy, med­ic­al tech­no­logy and elec­tric­al engin­eer­ing sec­tors as well as law­yers from large law firms. In par­al­lel, the firm con­tinu­ously trains young sci­ent­ists to become pat­ent attorneys.

The firm has estab­lished itself as one of the most respec­ted IP law firms in Ger­many — (see ​“JUVE” rank­ings of the last years, in which WR ranks among the top 30 of all IP law firms in Ger­many) in par­tic­u­lar as a lit­ig­a­tion firm in infringe­ment proceedings.

Zweibrückenstr. 5-7
80331 München
Germany

Phone: +49 89 2102320

Email: post@wallinger.de

Web: https://www.wallinger.de/

SILVER

FUCHS Lubricants

Foun­ded in 1931 as a fam­ily busi­ness in Man­nheim, FUCHS is now the world’s largest sup­pli­er among inde­pend­ent lub­ric­ant man­u­fac­tur­ers with around 6,000 employ­ees and 57 oper­at­ing com­pan­ies in more than 50 countries.

Through­out Ger­many, a team of more than 1,000 spe­cial­ists at 5 loc­a­tions (headquar­ters: Man­nheim, plants in Man­nheim, Bre­men, Kiel and Wedel as well as a branch office in Ham­burg) is com­mit­ted to cus­tom­er sat­is­fac­tion at FUCHS Schmi­er­stoffe GmbH. 

From 2020, FUCHS is a CO₂-neut­ral com­pany. In order to imple­ment CO₂ neut­ral­ity as early as 2020, FUCHS will off­set its CO₂ emis­sions, which had not been avoided until then, with com­pens­a­tion meas­ures by invest­ing in high-qual­ity cli­mate pro­tec­tion pro­jects that above all pro­mote the expan­sion of renew­able energies.

Friesenheimer Straße 19
68169 Mannheim
Germany

Phone: +49 621 3701 0

Email: zentrale-fs@fuchs.com

Web: https://www.fuchs.com/de/en/

SILVER

Neste Germany GmbH

Neste cre­ates solu­tions for com­bat­ing cli­mate change and accel­er­at­ing a shift to a cir­cu­lar eco­nomy. We refine waste, residues and innov­at­ive raw mater­i­als into renew­able fuels and sus­tain­able feed­stock for plastics and oth­er mater­i­als. We are the world’s lead­ing pro­du­cer of sus­tain­able avi­ation fuel and renew­able dies­el and devel­op­ing chem­ic­al recyc­ling to com­bat the plastic waste chal­lenge. We aim at help­ing cus­tom­ers to reduce their green­house gas emis­sions with our renew­able and cir­cu­lar solu­tions by at least 20 mil­lion tons annu­ally by 2030. Our ambi­tion is to make the Por­voo oil refinery in Fin­land the most sus­tain­able refinery in Europe by 2030. We are intro­du­cing renew­able and recycled raw mater­i­als such as lique­fied waste plastic as refinery raw mater­i­als. We have com­mit­ted to reach­ing car­bon-neut­ral pro­duc­tion by 2035, and we will reduce the car­bon emis­sion intens­ity of sold products by 50% by 2040. We also have set high stand­ards for biod­iversity, human rights and sup­ply chain. We have con­sist­ently been included in the Dow Jones Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Indices and the Glob­al 100 list of the world’s most sus­tain­able com­pan­ies. In 2021, Neste’s rev­en­ue stood at EUR 15.1 bil­lion. Read more: neste​.com

Fürstenwall 172
40217 Düsseldorf
Germany

Email: kontakt@neste.com

Web: https://www.neste.com/en

SILVER

LanzaJet Inc.

Lan­za­Jet is a lead­ing sus­tain­able fuels tech­no­logy com­pany, headquartered out­side of Chica­go, Illinois, USA, ded­ic­ated to accel­er­at­ing the energy trans­ition by embra­cing the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy. We are mak­ing safe, sus­tain­able fuels from waste and low car­bon sources a real­ity today.

We are both an estab­lished Sus­tain­able Avi­ation Fuel (SAF) tech­no­logy pro­vider, and a sus­tain­able fuels pro­du­cer. Our pat­en­ted tech­no­logy, com­bined with our extens­ive know-how and deeply exper­i­enced team, makes sus­tain­able fuels a real­ity today. Through the use of our Lan­za­Jet^TM Alco­hol-to-Jet (AtJ) tech­no­logy, we are able to cre­ate SAF and renew­able dies­el from waste-based and sus­tain­able eth­an­ol sources. These sources include eth­an­ol pro­duced from low-car­bon sug­ar­cane, energy crops, forest resid­uals, agri­cul­tur­al wastes, organ­ic waste, indus­tri­al waste gases, and CO₂. With such a widely avail­able start­ing point, feed­stock is read­ily avail­able and access­ible around the world. In this way, we are cre­at­ing a glob­al, fully cir­cu­lar, car­bon recyc­ling eco­nomy to enable the decar­bon­iz­a­tion of the avi­ation and trans­port­a­tion industries. 

Lan­za­Jet was formed through the con­tri­bu­tions of our investors which include Lan­zaT­ech, Sun­cor Energy Inc., Mit­sui & Co., Ltd., Brit­ish Air­ways, and Shell, with par­ti­cip­a­tion from ANA. We con­tin­ue to accel­er­ate our growth through new part­ner­ships, includ­ing our recent part­ner­ship with Microsoft. Sup­port from these lead­ing glob­al organ­iz­a­tions is sig­ni­fic­antly accel­er­at­ing LanzaJet’s com­mer­cial deploy­ment and demon­strates a joint com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing a resi­li­ent, lower car­bon future. 

Lan­za­Jet was form­ally spun off from Lan­zaT­ech in 2020 under the lead­er­ship of CEO Jimmy Samartzis, but the story of our com­pany began in 2010. The tech­no­logy was first developed and extens­ively tested by Lan­zaT­ech and Pacific North­w­est Nation­al Labor­at­ory (PNNL), a US Depart­ment of Energy Nation­al Laboratory. 

LanzaJet’s busi­ness mod­el is anchored in licens­ing our tech­no­logy and provid­ing expert pro­ject devel­op­ment and oper­a­tions ser­vices. We also build, own, and oper­ate plants. We are cur­rently build­ing a 10M gal­lons per year Lan­za­Jet^TM Alco­hol to Jet unit (113M liters per year) com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion unit at our Free­dom Pines site in Sop­er­ton, Geor­gia, which will open in 2023. We are also devel­op­ing numer­ous oth­er pro­jects around the globe with our share­hold­ers and oth­er third parties. We have com­mit­ted to hav­ing 1B gal­lons (2.9 mil­lion tons) of SAF capa­city by 2030 in the US alone. 

520 Lake Cook Road, Suite 680
Deerfield, Il, 60015
USA

Phone: +1 (224) 369-0257

Web: http://www.lanzajet.com

BRONZE

SHV Energy

SHV Energy is a wholly owned sub­si­di­ary of SHV, a fam­ily-owned mul­tina­tion­al, and con­sists of a group of spe­cial­ised energy com­pan­ies. Our brands include Cal­or, Ipragaz, Liquigas, Primagaz and Super­gas­bras. With these com­pan­ies, we make it our mis­sion to provide decent­ral­ised, low-car­bon and clean energy solu­tions to 30 mil­lion busi­ness and res­id­en­tial cus­tom­ers who are not on the energy grid. Besides meet­ing essen­tial off-grid energy require­ments, our products offer major envir­on­ment­al bene­fits, as they are far clean­er than many of the sol­id and liquid fuels that would oth­er­wise be used. We encour­age and enable cus­tom­ers to switch from the most highly pol­lut­ing fuels, such as coal and heat­ing oil, to LPG and LNG, which res­ults in a sig­ni­fic­ant reduc­tion in car­bon diox­ide and par­tic­u­late mat­ter emissions.

SHV Energy
Capellalaan 65
2132 JL Hoofddorp
The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)23 555 5700

Web: https://www.shvenergy.com/

BRONZE

EurA AG

EurA AG is an inter­na­tion­al con­sult­ing com­pany foun­ded in 1999 and based in Ger­many, Por­tugal and Brus­sels. EurA has become one of the most exper­i­enced sup­port ser­vice pro­viders in the field of fund­ing con­sultancy and fund­ing man­age­ment. With over 180 pro­fes­sion­als, we work with more than 2,500 mainly medi­um-sized com­pan­ies through­out Europe, cov­er­ing all indus­tri­al sec­tors with emphas­is on cir­cu­lar eco­nomy and environment.

EurA AG offers a one-stop ser­vice: eval­u­ation of innov­at­ive ideas, mar­ket assess­ment, fund­ing pro­gramme advise, sup­port in the applic­a­tion pro­cess and through the entire pro­ject by means of man­age­ment, con­trolling, busi­ness con­sult­ing and life cycle ana­lys­is services.

Our core busi­ness is innov­a­tion and strategy con­sult­ing. Here, we provide research and tech­no­logy con­sult­ing, con­sult­ing for tech­no­lo­gic­al real­iz­a­tion, innov­a­tion man­age­ment and intern­al innov­a­tion pro­cesses. Fur­ther, we are nation­al lead­er in innov­a­tion net­work man­age­ment, espe­cially in indus­tries as cir­cu­lar eco­nomy , bio­tech­no­logy and engineering. 

In addi­tion, we provide Life cycle cost­ing (LCC) and techno-eco­nom­ic ana­lyse improv­ing know­ledge of the cost drivers in the pro­cess (e.g. influ­ence of energy costs), to eval­u­ate altern­at­ive tech­no­lo­gies and to sup­port invest­ment decisions. 

Max-Eyth-Straße 2
73479 Ellwangen
Germany

Email: pfarrkirchen@eura-ag.de

Web: https://www.eura-ag.com/

Wacker Chemie AG

Wack­er is an inde­pend­ent, glob­ally oper­at­ing com­pany suc­cess­fully act­ive in the field of sci­entif­ic research, man­u­fac­tur­ing and sales of chem­ic­al-tech­nic­al products. Since the 1980s, Wack­er has been intens­ively involved in indus­tri­al bio­tech­no­lo­gic­al products and pro­cesses. Accord­ing to its own mar­ket research, Wack­er is the glob­al mar­ket lead­er with bio­tech­no­lo­gic­ally pro­duced cyc­lo­dex­trins and fer­ment­at­ive cysteine. Wack­er is cur­rently devel­op­ing new bio­tech­no­lo­gic­al pro­cesses to eco­nom­ic­ally pro­duce basic chem­ic­als such as ethyl­ene and acet­ic acid from renew­able raw mater­i­als. Acet­ic acid and ethyl­ene are the basic ingredi­ents of vinyl acet­ate, which Wack­er pro­cesses into poly­mer bind­ers, among oth­er things.

Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4
81737 München
Deutschland

Phone: +49 89 6279 0

Email: info@wacker.com

Web: https://www.wacker.com

Electrochaea GmbH

Elec­tro­chaea is a clean tech­no­logy start-up that has devel­op­ed a nov­el tech­no­logy for grid-scale energy stor­age known as power-to-gas. ln this two-step pro­cess, low-cost and stran­ded elec­tri­city from wind and sol­ar is first con­ver­ted to green hydro­gen by means of water elec­tro­lys­is. The hydro­gen is then com­bined with car­bon diox­ide and reacted to meth­ane, the prin­cip­al com­pon­ent of nat­ur­al gas. This meth­ana­tion reac­tion is per­formed by a pro­pri­et­ary strain of meth­ano­gen­ic archaea, a single-celled organ­ism that has been among the first liv­ing organ­isms on Earth.

Elec­tro­chae­a’s archaea have been adap­ted for deploy­ment in indus­tri­al envir­on­ments and excel through high mass con­ver­sion effi­ciency and robust­ness and fast reac­tion kin­et­ics. The renew­able nat­ur­al gas pro­duced in this pro­cess can be injec­ted dir­ectly into exist­ing nat­ur­al gas pipelines and stored for days, weeks or months. Once in the grid, the gas can be trans­por­ted geo­graph­ic­ally to the point of end use in power pro­duc­tion or in trans­port­a­tion, heat­ing, and oth­er indus­tri­al applications.

The com­pany is plan­ning to com­mer­cial­ize its power-to-gas tech­no­logy in coun­tries with ambi­tious tar­gets for wind and sol­ar energy such as Ger­many, Den­mark, France, the United King­dom, the Neth­er­lands, and the United States.

Backed by an inter­na­tion­al con­sor­ti­um of renowned investors, Elec­tro­chaea is based in Planegg by Munich (Bav­aria) and cur­rently employs over 30 tal­en­ted indi­vidu­als rep­res­ent­ing 11 dif­fer­ent countries.

Semmelweisstrasse 3
82152 Planegg
Germany

Phone: +49 89 32493670

Email: info@electrochaea.com

Web: http://www.electrochaea.com/

BioCampus Straubing GmbH

BioCam­pus Straub­ing GmbH is a pub­lic region­al busi­ness devel­op­ment agency for Straub­ing, Bavaria’s region of renew­able raw mater­i­als and bioeconomy. As sub­si­di­ary of the Port of Straub­ing, the organ­iz­a­tion devel­ops and mar­kets the Port as a prime loc­a­tion for a sus­tain­able, biobased eco­nomy, focus­sing on indus­tri­al bio­tech­no­logy and chem­ic­al-mater­i­al use of biomass. 

BioCam­pus Straub­ing provides indi­vidu­al­ized net­work­ing and innov­a­tion ser­vices for com­pan­ies inter­ested or loc­ated in Straub­ing and the sur­round­ing region. Spe­cif­ic focus is put on sup­port for start-ups com­mit­ted to the change from a fossil- to a biobased eco­nomy. The core of these activ­it­ies is the com­pet­i­tion ​“PlanB – Biobased.Business.Bavaria”, which is co-fun­ded by the Bav­ari­an Min­istry for Eco­nomy, Rur­al Devel­op­ment and Energy. Also, BioCam­pus Straub­ing offers a broad port­fo­lio of infra­struc­ture solu­tions for indi­vidu­al needs: con­fer­ence facil­it­ies, lab and office spaces in their branch-ded­ic­ated tech­no­logy & start-up incub­a­tion cen­ter, indus­tri­al plots from S to XL, trimod­al logist­ics options, shared ser­vices, and, start­ing in late 2024, infra­struc­ture and ser­vices for indus­tri­al biotech pro­cess upscal­ing in their BioCam­pus MultiPilot.

Europaring 4
94315 Straubing
Germany

Phone: +49 9421 785 150

Email: info@biocampus-straubing.de

Web: https://www.hafen-straubing.de/bio-kai/

Thermo Fisher Scientific Geneart GmbH

Gen­eart AG was foun­ded in 1999 as a spin-off of the Uni­ver­sity of Regens­burg by Ralf Wag­n­er, Mar­cus Graf and Hans Wolf. For the devel­op­ment of vac­cines, Wag­n­er needed spe­cial genes that could not be obtained on the open mar­ket and there­fore had to be pro­duced in-house. The syn­thes­ized genes provided good test res­ults, and the sci­ent­ists recog­nized the poten­tial bene­fits of syn­thet­ic genes for research and industry. They foun­ded the com­pany with the goal of pro­du­cing arti­fi­cial genes in large volumes at low prices, mak­ing them avail­able to all sci­ent­ists world­wide. In April 2010, Gen­eart was acquired by the U.S. group Life Tech­no­lo­gies for about 56 mil­lion euros. Since Feb­ru­ary 4, 2014, Life Tech­no­lo­gies has been part of Thermo Fish­er Sci­entif­ic and has been oper­at­ing under the name Thermo Fish­er Sci­entif­ic GEN­EART GmbH since August 10, 2015.

Im Gewerbepark B35
93053 Regensburg
Germany

Phone: +49 941 942 760

Email: info@geneart.com

Web: https://www.thermofisher.com/de/de/home/life-science/cloning/gene-synthesis/geneart-gene-synthesis.html

Nordic Electrofuel AS

Hydrovegen 55
3936 Porsgrunn
Norway

Phone: +47 952 55 835

Email: post@nordicelectrofuel.no

Web: https://nordicelectrofuel.no/

Intelligent Fluids

intel­li­gent flu­ids designs smart green IMPACT CHEM­ISTRY for pro­fes­sion­al clean­ing and mater­i­al sep­ar­a­tion in B2B volume mar­kets. The dis­rupt­ive tech­no­logy offers a pion­eer­ing com­bin­a­tion of per­form­ance plus sig­ni­fic­ant eco­lo­gic and eco­nom­ic advantages.

CHAL­LENGE: aggress­ive chem­istry causes huge indus­tri­al prob­lems in per­form­ance, func­tion­al­ity, pro­cess cost and espe­cially in sus­tain­ab­il­ity aspects towards sur­faces, humans and nature. Plan­et Earth can­not handle any longer bil­lion tons of harm­ful solvents.

SOLU­TION: intel­li­gent flu­ids is spe­cial­ized on smart phys­ic­al clean­ing flu­ids to replace clas­sic harm­ful chem­istry. Res­ult­ing products offer nov­el applic­a­tions, sig­ni­fic­antly optim­ized func­tion­al­it­ies and sub­stan­tial indus­tri­al TCO reduc­tion based on green chem­istry that sup­ports 10 Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals of the United Nations.

ESG EFFECTS: intel­li­gent flu­ids have great impact and effects on ESG Bal­ance and envir­on­ment: Reduc­tions of up to 80% CO2 emis­sions, up to 60% energy cost, up to 70% clean­ing mater­i­al consumption.

BUSI­NESS: intel­li­gent flu­ids has already a wide vari­ety of power­ful smart liquids on hand. The exist­ing product port­fo­lio cov­ers applic­a­tions like remov­al of dirt mix­tures, strip­ping of colors/​lacquers/​inks, degreas­ing from oils/​fats, remov­al of adhesives/​glues and joint loosen­ing. The busi­ness mod­el is selling con­sum­ables in bulk via sales part­ners and/​or dir­ectly to indus­tri­al end-users.

TECHNOLOGY/IP: The core of intel­li­gent flu­ids dis­rupt­ive tech­no­logy is the cre­ation of com­plex phase flu­ids, which can be mod­i­fied and adap­ted. Gentle mater­i­als are com­bined to form stable sys­tems thanks to molecu­lar team-work­ing effects. Highly dynam­ic struc­tures cre­ate unique, phys­ic­al prop­er­ties. By focus­ing on safe, eco-friendly sub­stances, flu­ids allow a mul­ti­tude of applic­a­tions. Sev­er­al Pat­ents, Pat­ent applic­a­tions, brands and trade secrets belong to the IP.

MAR­KETS: intel­li­gent flu­ids belong to indus­tri­al clean­ing mar­ket (55bn€). Cur­rent focus is on high-volume mar­kets such as micro­elec­tron­ics (4bn €), elec­tron­ics, indus­tri­al main­ten­ance (5bn €) and oil&gaz industry (10bn €). Plus B2B2C sec­tor opportunities.

COM­PET­I­TION: intel­li­gent flu­ids owns an unrivaled break­through tech­no­logy plat­form. Com­pet­i­tion may arise from com­pet­ing approaches like green solvents, but intel­li­gent flu­ids offer unique advant­ages in per­form­ance, total cost of own­er­ship and envir­on­ment­al topics.

Karl-Heine-Str. 99
D-04229 Leipzig
Germany

Phone: +49 341 319 68 10

Email: info@intelligent-fluids.com

Web: https://www.intelligent-fluids.com/