No man is a prophet in his own country. “Luxembourg positions itself as an international financial hub and promotes its green transition, but in reality the concrete commitment to sustainable technologies remains limited,” say Alain Mestat and Hakan Groenlund, respectively managing partner and cofounder/CEO of H2oVortex. “This lack of local support is driving us to seek opportunities internationally to develop our solutions, which are nonetheless essential to the green transition.”

H2oVortex sees the 100+ Accelerator as a great opportunity to demonstrate the impact of its technology on a large scale and to engage in a dialogue with the most influential companies in the industrial world. The technology it has developed, an industrial vortex generator for cooling towers (IVGCT), optimises the use of water in industrial cooling towers by significantly reducing consumption and operational costs. Its promoters claim that this means up to 50% in water savings; the total elimination of chemicals used for water treatment; reduced wastewater discharges, which promotes a zero-pollution approach; lower operational costs; and increased energy efficiency.

Last year, for example, the company was chosen to optimise 12 of the largest data centres in the Netherlands.

Several well-known technology companies have taken part in the 100+ Accelerator, an acceleration programme set up by AB InBev, Budweiser’s parent company, to support innovation in areas like sustainability, food technologies and agricultural solutions. Such companies include:

—Greenlight Biosciences, sustainable producer of RNA for the biopharmaceutical and agri-food industry

—Puris, producer of sustainable plant proteins and specialising in pea-based ingredients

—AgShift, which uses artificial intelligence to automate quality control processes in agriculture

—Protera, which uses AI to develop alternative proteins with microorganisms, contributing to sustainability in food production

This article in French.