On 25 July, the ministers for higher education and research and for the environment climate and sustainable development attended the inauguration of LIST’s new facilities at the Greentech Innovation Centre, allowing partners and researchers to develop new solutions from lab to industrial scale.
These facilities will support Luxembourg’s ambitions to work on higher Technology Readiness Levels in the fields of biorefinery, water treatment and biogas production, which will enable LIST to better meet the demands of the industry and forge more partnerships.
“The impressive facilities will accelerate the development of new environmental technologies, which are of particular interest to our businesses and public authorities, especially in the areas of energy transition and wastewater treatment,” said Joëlle Welfring, minister for the environment, climate and sustainable development.
Among the new installations is a platform of bioreactors unique in the Greater Region, infrastructure for the implementation of large-scale prototypes for bioenergy and water treatment technologies and additional space for joined labs with industrial partners. Overall, these new facilities represent an investment of €2m on an area of 1,500m2.
More than 60 scientists and engineers can offer complementary skills to support industrial partners from the generation of an idea through laboratory and pilot stages all the way to market-ready sustainable and safer processes, substances, and products.
“The major challenge is to encourage synergies between research players and the economic and social world, so that our strategy of promoting innovation has a significant impact, both environmentally and socio-economically,” explains Claude Meisch, minister for higher education and research.
The Greentech Innovation Centre also offers vocational trainings using the state-of-the-art facilities, in collaboration with equipment providers like Innfors, Sciex, and Invitrocell. Some of the partners which have already joined the centre include the Institut fir biologësch Landwirtschaft an Agrarkultur Luxemburg (IBLA) for the development of biopesticides, BIOROCK and Chemra in the domain of water treatment technologies, among others.
