News

Victor Ajao has joined the SusPhos team

Since March 2020, the SusPhos team has been expanded with Victor Ajao (see the picture of Victor working in the lab). Victor currently was a PhD-student at Wetsus and has an industrial chemical background. He will work on the Research and Development of the SusPhos technology (mainly optimizing the technology) as well as the scaling up of the technology from lab to pilot plant. We are all very excited that he joined our team and looking forward to building the pilot plant together!
SusPhos currently has its industrial laboratory at the BioBizzHub and will build its pilot plant with the support of Paques Engineering. Read more (28/4/2020)

Successful second theme session about intellectual property

The second theme session was organized on April 9, 2020. The session focused on intellectual property strategies. As you can see on the picture the session was online due to the corona crisis. The session was led by Gijs van Hoorn, IP advisor of the Netherlands Patent Office (RVO). In the general introduction Gijs gave a brief overview of different forms of IP. After the general introduction Gijs had 1:1 meetings with all the scale-ups in the BioBizz hub. This gave them the opportunity to pay very specific attention to the questions and challenges of the participants. Read more (9/4/2020)

Fertipaq: fourth participant in BioBizz hub

Fertipaq is now officially the fourth participant in the BioBizz hub! On March 24, Elise van der Linde and Joost Paques signed the contract. Fertipaq is a start-up that sales bio-sulfur as a fertilizer for oilseed rape, corn, wheat, potatoes, onions cabbage, fruit, etc. Read more (25/3/2020)

Realization BioBizz hub still on schedule

The constructions works for the BioBizz hub are in its final stage. The delivery date is still according to the original planning: Friday 26 June 2020. Read more (23/3/2020)

Successful first theme session

One of the unique aspects of the BioBizz hub is the services we offer the participants. It is impossible for startups to have all the relevant knowledge and experience in-house. Participants at the BioBizz hub get access to crucial knowledge in fields like engineering and sales. All with the aim to help the startups to scale up their technology and bring it to the market.

There are several important knowledge fields of which we, at the BioBizz hub, are not the experts. That is why we have set up an extensive network of partners. One way to link our startups with these partners is via theme sessions. Sessions that focus on important issues for the startups. Read more (12/3/2020)

Provincies Fryslân, Groningen en Drenthe bekijken start bouw innovatieve proeftuin BioBizz hub

De provincies Fryslân, Groningen en Drenthe én het Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (SNN) brachten donderdagmiddag 9 januari 2020 gezamenlijk een werkbezoek aan de proeftuin BioBizz hub in Balk. Read more (9/1/2020)

SusPhos winner of the Gouden KIEM 2019

The team of SusPhos and the University of Amsterdam have received the Gouden KIEM on 10 December 2019. Read more (16/12/2019)

SusPhos official member of Water Alliance

SusPhos is now an official member of the Water Alliance. Read more (10/10/2019)

SusPhos: third participant in the BioBizz hub

SusPhos is a Dutch spin off company of the University of Amsterdam. On the first of October, SusPhos will start as the third participant in the BioBizz hub. Read more (17/9/2019)

Greencovery signs Letter of Intent

The Wageningen startup Greencovery recently signed a Letter of Intent with which they showed serious interest in participating in the BioBizz hub that is planned at the Paques premises. Read more (13/3/2019)

Paques helps circular startups accelerate their business

Paques is partner of BeStart, a unique startup accelerator that supports circular startups in bringing their technology to the market and accelerate their success. Wetsus, the European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology is also supporting the Bestart programme. Read more (19/2/2019)

Water Knight starts in BioBizz hub as second participant

Beginning of January 2019, Rahul Dahule from Water Knight had his first day in the BioBizz hub. Water Knight is the second start-up in the BioBizz hub.

Rahul is the director of the innovative start-up Water Knight that successfully developed a technology in the field of vortex cavitation. While the focus of EColoRO, our first start-up in the BioBizz hub, is on scaling up his technology, the focus of Water Knight is on “go to the market”.

The technology of Water Knight has added value in several market segments, including industrial waste water treatment plants. Water Knight’s VoDCa product can for example improve the degradation of COD or the yield of digesters.

The coming months Paques and the BioBizz hub will work closely with Rahul on supporting him in his process to bring this technology to the market.
Read more (16/1/2019)

Ecoloro – first participant in the BioBizz hub

Although the facilities of the BioBizz hub will be realized the coming year, EColoRO Watertreatment is the first company to use the services that we offer. It is great that a company like EColoRO is already participating in this phase, because it gives us the opportunity to design the services of the BioBizz hub in close alignment with the future users. Read more (6/11/2018)

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