SAS and BlueChem conclude partnership

SAS and BlueChem incubator for sustainable chemistry conclude partnership

April 2020

SAS will be one of the strategic partners of BlueChem, the first incubator in Belgium to focus specifically on innovation and entrepreneurship in sustainable chemistry. This involves the valorisation of waste and by-products, process optimisation and the development of renewable chemicals and sustainable products.

BlueChem is a collaboration between industry, knowledge institutions and government with the ambition to guarantee and strengthen the future of the economically important chemical industry in Flanders. Data- and ai-specialist SAS has been working for the chemical and life sciences industry for many years, with customers such as Prayon, Siemens Healthineers and Solvay.

Within the partnership, SAS will make its analysis platform available to start-ups and scale-ups in BlueChem. This should enable them to scale the data. For example, processes can be optimised, capacity and efficiency increased, energy consumption reduced and product quality and reliability improved.

“With this collaboration, we want to optimally support both our loyal customers and the customers of tomorrow. The partnership with BlueChem fits perfectly with our strategy to continue to support innovations and transformations”, says Wim Mues, Sales Director Manufacturing at SAS for Benefralux.

The importance of big data and artificial intelligence in the chemical industry is growing rapidly. Both to make industrial processes safer and more efficient, and in research and development. “Thanks to the partnership with SAS, we can offer the start-ups and growth companies in BlueChem the digital technology to use data to optimise and accelerate their innovations in sustainable chemistry”, says Frank Beckx, chairman BlueChem and managing director essenscia vlaanderen.