Eco-Solution has developed a new technology platform, which enables it to design micro-organisms that for example help nature resist attacks from industry and other human activities.
The processes developed by Eco-Solution are called "directed in vivo evolution". They allow Eco-Solution to apply biological treatments to industrial waste or effluents in a cost effective and energy efficient way compared to existing methods, as well as reducing collateral energy consumption arising from traditional approaches involving transport etc.
After having launched its activities with the treatment of industrial wastewaters, Eco-Solution has extended these applications to the treatment of urban wastewaters and of contaminated soils. Eco-Solution's directed in vivo evolution can for example very rapidly degrade PCBs, often found in rivers, and thus reduce an extremely serious public health threat.
Eco-Solution has also done a considerable amount of work on the use of biomass. Only a small fraction of the available biomass is put to good use and the way it is used is far from being satisfactory, especially in terms of the production of biogas (methanization). The application of the techniques of directed evolution developed by Eco-Solution should make it possible to increase considerably the proportion of "treatable" biomass as well as to improve the performance of existing or future industrial treatment plants.
Following the continuing controversy over the production of bioethanol, Eco-Solution has also started to improve the performance of other micro-organisms, microalgae. The company is carrying out experiments to produce biofuel and biodiesel from certain species of microalgae.
Founded in 1999, Eco-Solution is located at the Biocitech technology park near Paris. It employs more than 30 people and has already raised over EUR 9.5 million from private investors.
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