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LIGHT 003! Magazine by secpho - Photonics revolutionise the food industry

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Food & Photonic technologies – In order to ensure a high level of international competitiveness, a steady growth in production, an increase in EU exports as well as a rising number of direct jobs, the food sector is facing major technological challenges by safeguarding the following three aspects: quality, safety and productivity . In this context, photonic technologies offer a wide range of innovative solutions – light control enables us to monitor the composition and the quality of food. Moreover it allows us to control the whole production process, rise crop yields, optimize packaging and bottling...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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European Photonics Roadshow in Newcastle

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Thanks to a new event of the European Photonics Roadshow Series , promoted by secpho along with 7 other European clusters, we were able to organize a mini-mission to Newcastle with 3 cluster members: R icardo Díaz (ainia), Josep Maria Serres (eurecat), Andy Tomlinson (Phase Photonics) joined the secpho team during this event. The aim of this event was to provide SMEs with solutions on how to overcome barriers to entering the MedTech and pharmaceutical markets with photonics-enabled products . At this two day event participants were able to hear from a panel of international experts, covering a range of...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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secpho supports deep tech startups to meet inverstors and corporates

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secpho , as Startup Europe Ambassador recognized by the European Commission, organized two sessions, one in Barcelona on 6 March and one in Madrid on 7 March, focused on helping deep tech startups in the creation or growth phase, favouring their connection with investors and big industry. These meetings were dedicated to startups that use high tech hardware technologies in their business model, since it is harder to find support for the development of hardware technologies, while software is usually the predominant technology used by startups. The format of the sessions was organized to enhance the...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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Roadshow in Amsterdam: Mission accomplished

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A new event of the European Photonics Roadshow Series , promoted by secpho along with 7 other European clusters, served to organize a mini-mission with 4 cluster members: R icardo Díaz (ainia), Yago Olaizola and Gema García (ceit), Ismael Almazán (Fyla) and Sara Otero (Phase photonics) joined the secpho team during this event. This time the destination of the mini-mission was Amsterdam. The event was entitled “ Photonics for agrofood” , dealing with new applications of photonics in the field of agriculture and food processing. The 4 members of the cluster were able to present their skills and technologies...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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FoodPackLab Event in Hannover

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On 29 January 2019, the first FoodPackLab Innovation Workshop took place in Hannover. The Event was hosted by the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and adressed challenges in the field of food processing, foodsafty & packaging. Along with the consortium members of FoodPackLab, additional companies operating in the photonics-, research- and packaging-industry from Spain, France and Germany attended the workshop. After the registration, the participants were welcomed by one of the consortium members, Norbert Reichl, Managing Director of Food-Processing Initiative e.V.. Afterwards the project leader Gawel...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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secpho as Startup Europe Ambassador

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Secpho is official Startup Europe Ambassador , recognized by the European Commission . Throughout the years, Startup Europe (SE) has been a collective effort of hundreds of stakeholders, movers and doers in tech and startup field. The impact of this initiative could not have been possible without the immense support provided by this community. The community that is currently taking part in the growth of Startup Europe as a bottom-up movement have been invited to be Startup Europe Ambassadors. Startup Europe Ambassadors represent a group of key influencers in the European startup ecosystems who are actively...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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Photonics technologies are revolutionizing the food industry

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Have a look at our introduction video about the FoodBackLab programme in order to understand how photonics technologies revolutionanize the food industry by addressing food processing and packaging challenges of companies . Are you facing any challenges in the food industry, but still have difficulties in imagining how this might work? Then join our cross-sectorial innovation workshops starting in Hannover on the 29th of January , followed by the upcoming events in France (spring 2019) and Barcelona (october 2019) . The goal of these workshops is to foster collaborative projects at an international level,...
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  • Jan 28, 2019
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