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WINATLAB
A veritable incubator of collective intelligence, the WiNatLab platform has 3 objectives:
- Accelerate the development of new natural active ingredients by eliminating the obstacles to the deployment of innovation, thereby enabling faster access to markets.
- Boost the performance of natural product companies with value-creating solutions.
- Develop innovative, more environmentally-friendly technologies for extracting high-value plant raw materials.
Our strengths
ASSETS ON THE SUBJECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND NATURALNESS
The WiNatLab platform acts as a genuine promoter of green extraction technologies. On the one hand, Nature & Technologies is developing its own solutions that are more respectful of people and the environment, such as subcritical water extraction, which eliminates the need for certain petrochemical solvents.
WiNatLab’s partners also bring a wealth of expertise in terms of green extraction, with innovative processes and technologies such as :
- Agro-based solvent alternative to hexane
- Microwave, ultrasound
- etc.
All these processes and technologies are designed to ensure that the naturalness of the extracts produced is enhanced.
CSR COMMITMENTS AND/OR LABELS ACQUIRED
Nature & Technologies’ management has always been committed to creating and maintaining close, trust-based partnerships with all its stakeholders.
So it was only natural that the company should adopt a formal approach to its Corporate Social Responsibility activities, based on the principles of ISO 26000.
This approach has been recognised by several EcoVadis (Silver grade) assessments and by an on-site audit based on the “Together for sustainability” standard, with a score of 91/100.
A MODERN AND RICH TECHNOLOGY PARK
From a simple steam distillation unit to a complex subcritical water extraction unit, WiNatLab offers its customers a whole range of technologies specialising in the processing of high added-value natural raw materials.
Available on the same test platform, these technologies enable our customers to make comparisons and target the technology that best suits their application.
The machine park offers well-known and proven technologies for which new process parameters can be applied, such as, for example, with the use of green solvents. At the same time, very recent technologies, also present on the platform, enable developments at the cutting edge of innovation.
CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION
The launch of the WiNatLab platform follows the creation of the Nature & Technologies SAS subsidiary, the aim of which is to strengthen Nature & Technologies’ position as a leader in complete solutions for processing natural materials with high added value.
For Nature & Technologies, it is essential to redeploy a dynamic of technological innovation and to accentuate its process expertise with its customers. In a way, it is a question of gradually evolving from “kitchen specialist” to “star chef” in order to contribute more widely to the growth of the Natural products market, with a range of “à la carte” services.
ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY
The economic profitability of an innovation depends on controlling its development process. This is what the WiNatLab seeks to achieve with its partners in a collaborative, performance-oriented mode, and what Nature & Technologies proposes to pursue by optimising the CAPEX and OPEX of the chosen solution.
Thanks to the R&D work carried out within the WiNatLab and the choice of technology appropriate to your innovation, Nature & Technologies will be able to accelerate the APS and APD study phases, thus saving several weeks on the construction schedule of your industrial unit. Nature & Technologies will also be able to build with WiNatLab customers a performance commitment on the quality and yields expected and tested during the scale-up on the platform.