The Eindhoven company Ioniqa has completed a financing round of €12 million, with The Coca-Cola Company as one of its investors. With this money, a factory can be built on the Brightlands Chemelot...
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Thanks to a loan from Coca-Cola, Ioniqa can accelerate the development and deployment of high-grade recycled content PET for use in Coca-Cola’s plastic bottles. Ioniqa is a spin-off of the...
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Eindhoven-based company Ioniqa is building its first PET plastic up-cycling plant on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen. The plant is expected to be operational in the summer of 2019...
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The TU/e spin-off Ioniqa has partnered with Unilever, as announced this afternoon. The cooperation also involves a third party, Indorama Ventures, the world’s largest PET producer. Together,...
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Ioniqa Technologies BV and Chemelot Ventures BV announce a multi-million Euro funding for Ioniqa’s Circular PET (plastics) process. Ioniqa was one of...
Read More![[Start-up top 10] Ioniqa and the solution to the waste problem](https://innovationorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-2.08.26-PM.png)
He worked all over the world before coming to Eindhoven for the first time in 2009. Here he found a city in full swing. Together with Dr. Carlos Guerrero, who was working at TU/e at the time, Tonnis...
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Steef Blok won the 2019 High Tech Piek Award on Thursday night. Blok received this award for his contribution to the high tech and start-up scene in the Brainport region. Steef Blok is in charge of...
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With Lightyear, Ioniqa, Ibis Power and Smart*Light, Brainport Eindhoven delivers four of the ten finalists for the title ‘National Icon of the Netherlands’. These National Icons are...
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Society is baulking at the impact of our collective plastic footprint. But some alternatives are occurring Only half of the plastic used for packaging is recycled. Several projects are trying to...
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Around the giants of the Eindhoven tech scene – Philips, ASML, NXP – are hundreds of smaller fledgeling companies, honing their ideas, and hoping to be the next big household name in high tech...
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For the fifth time last week, ten startups received the Gerard & Anton Award. A good time to see how things are going with the winners of previous years and who they were. But first, a summary...
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From TU/e technology to working with a multinational In a series of articles, we try to find out what the value of the TU/e Campus is, outside education and research. In the previous two articles,...
Read MoreEverything engaged in the circular economy has to come together in 040circular. That way, this platform, which is connected to futureproof.community, hopes to make it easier to connect supply and demand. A big fighter for the...
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Recently the e52 High Tech Piek Awards were presented to nine people who made a significant contribution in the high tech arena (or from whom we expect great things in 2016). The award titles...
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So far we’ve spoken to nine young and ambitious companies in our Top 10 Start-ups to Watch series. Eindhoven companies that are ready to take on the world. For this last instalment,...
Read More![[Start-up Top 10] Smart Photonics and the power of light](https://innovationorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SMP-QS-IMG_2853-B-kl.jpg)
They’ve been working on something for fifteen years at TU/e that some are calling a new revolution: integrated photonics. A technology through which light is generated and manipulated in the...
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Today is part 8 of our series on the Eindhoven Start-ups to Watch. Utomik is the platform offering users unlimited gaming for ten dollars a month. We’re talking to CEO Doki Tops about finding...
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It’s clear as soon as we arrive. Two jackets on the coat rack, a bag and a drone. Today we’re with Avular, one of the start-ups from this year’s Top 10 Start-ups to Watch. Six men...
Read More![[Start-up Top 10] Fistuca and driving piles offshore more quietly](https://innovationorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-30-at-8.38.21-AM.png)
You can see the Maasvlakte 2 as soon as you’re within six kilometres of it. The twenty-metre-tall piling machine can drive piles almost silently. Jasper Winkes started Fistuca BV in the middle...
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Only three months ago, the youngest start-up from e52’s Top 10 Startups to Watch was founded. Smart Robotics is still a very young company, but now the requests are rolling in and investors...
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Did he ever think he would give a pitch at the major symposium for the food and IT sector, the Food Bytes Summit in the United States? The Ministry of Economic Affairs wanted to show what the...
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Eindhoven is known for its innovative strength. It is a breeding ground of design and technology. New start-ups are founded here almost every day. The second edition of the ‘Top 10 Start-ups...
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