These are the winners of the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2022

Semodia, Pipe Predict and Lumatix Biotech – these are the winners of the ACHEMA Start-up Award. They convinced with their solutions for „Plug and Produce“ in modular plants, Predictive Maintenance in pipelines and for the insulation of antibodies. The winners will each receive 10,000 euros.

„The thematic breadth of the winners reflects the variety of solutions the process industry has to offer for a wide range of issues,“ said Andreas F?rster, CEO of DECHEMA, at the awards ceremony in Frankfurt on August 24, 2022. „Start-ups play a very important role in this with their innovative power.“

To strengthen this, DECHEMA, High-Tech Gr?nderfonds and Business Angels Frankfurt RheinMain, with the support of premium partner Clariant, had announced the ACHEMA Start-up Award for the third time. From more than 30 applications, for the first time also from abroad, an expert jury had selected 10 finalists who were able to present themselves at ACHEMA in a separate session and in the Start-up Area.

Dr. Nikolaus Raupp from High Tech Gr?nderfonds focused in particular on the importance of disruptive innovation by start-ups for a faster transformation to a sustainable circular economy. Companies developing solutions for this were represented among the finalists, as were digitization topics or platforms for new active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Joachim Reinhardt from Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain highlighted this diversity and the high quality of the finalists overall. He also emphasized the importance of contacts for young companies; ACHEMA offers the finalists an excellent platform for visibility and networking.
The three winners stood out both for innovative ideas that can achieve a wide reach and solve current challenges in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, but also for solid business plans that were put through their paces by the experts during the competition.