Tecnisun is a french cleantech company designing, manufacturing and selling vacuum tube solar collectors connected to heat pipes. The company is currently developing new solar heat applications for the residential and industrial sectors, together with a new combined solar system for heating that does not use glycol and that is self-draining.

Deinove is a french company specialized in the development of breakthrough industrial microbial processes for the production of 1st- and 2nd-generation biofuels, chemical commodities and compounds of industrial interest using Deinococcus. Deinove has shown that Deinococcus sp. “naturally” present most of the characteristics of the “Ideal Microbe”for producing ethanol cost-effectively.

Natural odorant molecules have a high added value and are very widely employed in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics or perfume industries. Their separation, traditionally ensured by distillation or liquid-liquid extraction, remains a difficult and costly operation. New technologies are now being developed. One of these is membrane contactors developed by a french cleantech company named Ederna which, because of their compactness, flexibility, selectivity and low energy and solvent consumption, have undeniable advantages.

Vegeplast conceives and makes biodegradable plastic parts of vegetale origin which associates ecology, environmental protection and industry. This french cleantech companies is focusing on plastic pieces with limited use in time as sports and leisure articles, animal food toys, defence training pieces. With its unique Vegemat innovation, the company has developed a bioplastic made from corn and other plants easily shaped, durable and biodegradable. The company is expecting a tunover of € 3million by 2010.