Peter Sygall

Cytocentrics AG provides a tool for automated patch-clamp and ion channel screening services for drug research. Its products include CytoPatch, CytoPatch Chip, Cell Lines, Microsieves, Microchip, MEA, CP software, cell reservoir and instant cells. The firm's services include device service, cell line development, instant cells, screening services, specific assay development, GLP screening, micro systems technology and assay development for standardizes cell liners. Cytocentrics has locations in Germany and Netherlands. The company was founded in 2001 by Thomas Knott and Alfred Stett and is headquartered in Rostock, Germany.

fluXXion founded in 2003, is a Dutch clean technology company applying proven manufacturing technology from the semiconductor and micro system industries, to the design and manufacture of unique micro filtration and separation products for bulk liquid filtration markets and chemical separation markets. The basic manufacturing technology was originally developed by Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, for the manufacture of complex micro structured products. Co-inventor Prof. Dr. Cees van Rijn first started making wafer based Microsieves for filtration in 1994. fluXXion completed the industrial application of this technology and has its own R&D as well as production facilities. A well-balanced team of industry veterans, who worked together for over ten years in related high technology fields, founded the Company in 2003 and expanded the company over the years. fluXXion is based on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands The company has closed several contracts with leading industrial partners to develop, integrate and market the technology. Given the huge benefits of the fluXXion technology versus the traditional filtration and separation technologies, in the focal area's dairy products processing and distillation applications, it is clear that the company has great potential to become an unique major technology provider in these markets. The first full scale filtration plant is in operation at a large cheese factory with an annual capacity of 40 000 tons. A demo-unit for a chemicals stripping unit will be built in the first half of 2010. In 2008 fluXXion was the only Dutch company selected as Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.