The engineering company is located in the south of Austria and has been active for more than ten years in various water-related projects and now wishes to bring its patented fish lift and lock system into new markets. Fish sluices and fish lifts are currently available on the market but as stand-alone pieces and not in combination. In situations where these state of the art solutions are not suitable, a fish lift sluice as a combination of both can be the solution. Existing fish sluices operated as locks for watercrafts offer no transportation possibility for fish.

The Austrian company is developing and manufacturing diagnostic devices for healthcare professionals. The housings of medical products have to fulfill many requirements. They have to be cleanable, chemically stable, biocompatible, optically high-grade and robust against mechanical impacts. Additionally they have to comply with the regulations of medical technologies especially concerning electrical and hygienic safety. For the different housings of the diagnostic devices, which the company is producing, various parts made of plastic have to be glued together.

The company has been specialising in the field of day-to-day baby care for more than 40 years by developing, manufacturing and marketing childcare articles. For some product lines, they are market leader in the US, in specific EU member states as well as beyond Europe. The company seeks to expand its portfolio of childcare products with a fertility detection device and has therefore initiated a start-up scouting phase, which includes both early and later-stage start-up companies. The fertility tracker can be any kind of device indicating/predicting ovulation and/or onset of menstruation.

The Austrian company is a printing and communication company which aims to reach the highest possible standard for ecological and healthy printing. The company produces high-quality sheet-fed offset and digital printing products ranging from business cards to books. Ten years ago they started a circular economy project to develop print products that are free from harmful substances and can be returned to the biological cycle based on the Cradle to Cradle Certification Standard.