PROTECTOR - First industrial application of eco-innovative biotechnological process and product

Terra Humana Ltd. has been established in 1989, as Swedish-Hungarian joint venture between the Swedish environmental engineer Edward Someus and Lang Machine Works (since 1868 as Central Europe's largest industrial boiler manufacturing organization, which by year 2000 made fusion with the multinational Asea- Brown-Boveri and Alstom Power). The international SME organization company mission was all the time to develop, engineering design and manufacture of novel clean technologies on a European level for renewable energy, waste recycling, industrial and agricultural environmental protection solutions with core competence of coal and carbon for industry and agriculture. During the past two decades the company put in huge human and financial efforts to develop innovative eco-industrial advanced solutions, design, implement and tests “product like” pilot plants to meet market demands in large Western European countries. Extensive scientific and industrial networks developed in 13 EU countries with large number RTD partners, Universities, large institutions, SME and large industrial organizations, especially in The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. In practice 100% of the company outputs targeting Western European and North American markets, due to that there is low or no any payable markets for modern eco industrial solution in Hungary, and the national support to bridge the gap between RTD and commercialisation is practically not available in Hungary. The company is coordinator and key technology developer/designer for large scale EU RTD programmes and numerous large scale projects. The company is having advanced and well equipped research, laboratory and test facilities in West Hungary.

Partners:

Plant Research International (PRI)

Plant Research International (PRI) is a private not for profit research institute with more than 600 experienced and highly motivated personnel, and part of Wageningen University and Research Center. By integrating knowledge on crop protection, crop ecology, agricultural systems, genetics and reproduction, PRI offers a host of fresh perspectives to industry and public institutions, agriculture, horticulture, and agro-ecosystems linked to landscape and nature development.

The research cluster ’Microbial Ecology’ within PRI is performing research into all microbiological aspects of soils, substrates and rhizospheres of key crop plants. One of the goals is to develop measures to reduce pathogen threat.

The Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Directorate
of the Agricultural Office of county Fejér

The Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Directorate of the Agricultural Office of county Fejér has its widest authority responsibility in the various fields of the national plant protection and soil conservation service: plant protection, plant health, soil conservation, agri-environment management, authorisation of PPPs and yield enhancing substances, GIS, provision of plant protection services. The main responsibility is to ensure conservation of land and to improve the country's plant health status and to provide services for the growers. The Plant Protection Laboratory is carry out efficacy trials with PPPs, regulators and growing mediums prior to grant authorisation, under laboratory, glasshouse and field conditions.

Etudes Chimiques et Physiques S.a.r.l.

Etudes Chimiques et Physiques S.a.r.l. (ECP) is a 10-years old, small, private, and totally independent R&D company. ECP executes research contracts and purchase orders related to almost all domains of Chemistry and Physics. The company focuses however on applications of its own high-voltage plasma devices (GlidArc) to remove pollutants (like H2S) from industrial exhausts as well as to convert wastes gases (like poor biogas), waste vapours (like bone gas) and waste liquids (like glycerol) into valuable products, like Hydrogen + Carbon Monoxide (syngas) or a fuel gas to produce electric energy. ECP possesses its own land, building, and all necessary equipment as well as metrology instruments. Its site is located in the Region Centre in France. The company has more than 20 patents and sells licences, mostly abroad. It also builds test prototypes and installs them on customer's facilities