Published on Thursday 28th August 2014Sector: Engineering & MaterialsCategory: Portfolio Progress

Imperial Innovations portfolio company, Econic Technologies, a developer of novel catalyst technologies for the manufacture of polymers from CO2, enjoyed success at the recent RSC Emerging Technologies Competition, winning the award for the category of 'Environment, Materials and Process Chemistry'.

Econic triumphed after a well-executed presentation and Q&A session before a panel of leading judges at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Burlington House, London. The judging panel comprised representatives of the Industry & Technology Council, the Technology Strategy Board, Procter & Gamble Innovation and the Knowledge Transfer Network.

The RSC Emerging Technologies Competition aims to support the best start-ups and pre-start-ups developing chemistry based technologies.

Econic took home a cash prize of £2,000 and an RSC plaque, and will also benefit from one-to-one mentoring from competition partners.

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