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Docteur Gab’s and WasteOlas recovering CO2 from the beer brewing process
Puidoux/Lancy - Brasserie Docteur Gab’s has teamed up with WasteOlas to launch a system for the recovery and recycling of CO2. With this system, CO2 produced during fermentation can be collected, purified and stored, before being re-used for beer production.
Read more →Seprify has fresh funds to industrialize bio-based active ingredients
Marly - Seprify in the canton of Fribourg has secured funding of 13.4 million euros to develop cellulose-based ingredients for industrial applications. Investors included Inter IKEA Group based in the Netherlands and Zürcher Kantonalbank. The active ingredients can be used in numerous sectors.
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Researchers use AI and satellite data to identify plastic debris
Ecublens/Wageningen - Under the project AI for Detecting Ocean Plastic Pollution with Tracking (ADOPT), researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Wageningen University in the Netherlands are identifying plastic waste in the ocean. They are working with artificial intelligence (AI) and data from the ESA's Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope satellites.
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