The young company, based in Louvain-la-Neuve, already has a number of major customers, including TotalEnergies, Lhoist and Knauf, who have acquired the new technology. Which just goes to show the interest that this technology could represent for major industrial players, and the promises that are now associated with it.
Gautier Waterlot, Nicolas Verbeek and Guillaume Francaux were still civil engineering students at UCLouvain in 2019 when they set to work on the solution. They were aware of two key issues on industrial sites: the energy consumption of industrial machinery and production stoppages due to technical failures in that machinery. They wanted to think about a solution that could do both.
