Eight finalists are still in the running for the ACHEMA Start-up Award

Eight finalists are still in the running for the ACHEMA-Gründerpreis (Start-up Award), the winners of which will be announced in the opening session of the show on Monday 11 June.

Three podium places are available and each winning team will receive €10,000 in prize money as well as be given the opportunity to present their innovation to the global expert community.

Finalists come from very diverse fields such as peptide synthesis, heating systems or nano volume dosage:

• Belyntic offers a novel, patent-pending technology for the purification of chemically synthesized peptides, enabling for the first time a parallel, efficient and highly selective peptide purification.
• The new real-time mass spectrometer by foxySPEC is able to detect up to 30 components simultaneously from gases and liquids — directly during the production process and with a sensitivity in the lower ppm range.
• Heidelberg Delivery Technologies GmbH ‘HeiDelTec’ was established in 2017. The company’s core aim is to develop a drug delivery technology that allows the oral administration of peptides and proteins.
• mk2 Biotechnologies develops, produces and investigates complex peptides with arbitrary physical and chemical properties at highest purity standards using a disruptive scalable synthesis technology.
• Plasmion manufactures ‘electronic nose’-technology-based add-on products which upgrade benchtop mass spectrometers to high-sensitive online-sensors enabling new analytical workflows.
• watttron has developed a modular heating system for defined zonal heating. As with a TFT display, individual small heating circuits can be individually controlled with regard to temperature.
• I-DOT (‘Immediate Drop on Demand Technology’) by Dispendix enables highly accurate, nearly dead volume free fluid transfer from nano- to microliters, while significantly reducing capital investment and running costs.
• Sulfotools offers a sustainable alternative for the manufacturing of peptides that allows for the replacement of hazardous organic solvents with water and cost optimizations of up to 50%.

These companies will be presenting during the whole week at the ACHEMA-Gründerpreisstand in Hall 9.2, C84. At the ACHEMA Start-up Forum on Tuesday, 12 June 2018, potential customers, cooperation partners and investors can gain more insights in the companies and their technologies and learn from presentations by Accenture, Evonik, Merck and Hogan Lovells which parameters and conditions are key to successful innovation.

This is the second year that the ACHEMA-Gründerpreis will be awarded and is organised by DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V., DECHEMA Ausstellungs-GmbH, Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain and High-Tech Gründerfonds.