Growing demand for food safety, increasing mobility, or climate change are issues which the Bühler Technology Group deals with day in, day out. In order to find new solutions to such global challenges, Bühler is now collaborating closely with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Since March of this year, Bühler operates an Innovation Satellite in the Innovation Park of the EPFL. Peter Böhni, longtime head of Nutrition Solutions at Bühler, heads the Satellite. “The EPFL is an important partner of our worldwide Open Innovation network. ‘Collaborative Innovation’ is the only way we can successfully meet the global challenges that we are facing.” “At the center of our collaboration with the EPFL are visionary approaches that will be implemented within five to ten years and may point the way for Bühler technologies,” continues Peter Böhni. At the same time, the collaboration and in particular the Satellite will allow on-site contacts and exchanges between Bühler employees, laboratories, companies, start-ups, professors, and students. “A current example of this is Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing, a technology that stands to revolutionize the way in which engineers work. Cooperation with the science community enables us to better show our employees and customers the potential of this technology.”
The opening of the Innovation Satellite in the Innovation Park of the EPFL continues the string of successful earlier projects carried out with the EPFL. For example, last spring a competition was launched with EFPL students to find ways to reduce food losses. A total of 90 ideas were generated to minimize today’s 30% loss of food from the field to people’s tables. With its industrial-scale solutions, Bühler is making a substantial contribution to optimizing the grain processing value chain and thus to mitigating hunger in the world.
Bühler operates a unique Open Innovation network and takes a state-of-the-art innovation management approach. Beside collaborating with universities and research institutes worldwide, Bühler organizes an annual Innovation Challenge with its employees around the world and fosters innovation in collaboration with customers and suppliers. The Urs Bühler Innovation Fund (UBIF), established in 2014, additionally supports the company’s innovation efforts beside the roughly 5% of its sales revenue that it invests in research and development every year.
About Bühler
Every day, billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for foods, mobility, or communication. With our industrial-scale process technologies and solutions, we contribute significantly to feeding the world’s population, setting the focus on food security and food safety. Bühler flour mills process around 65% of the wheat harvested worldwide into flour. Its contribution to processing rice and producing pasta, chocolate, or breakfast cereals is similarly important. Moreover, Bühler is a leading solution provider of die casting, wet grinding, and surface coating technologies, with an emphasis on automotive, optics, electronics, printing & packaging inks, and glass applications. The solutions provided for these industries are distinguished by high energy efficiency and sustainable mobility. As a leading technology group, Bühler invests up to 5% of its sales revenue in research and development. Bühler is proud of its Swiss roots, with 10,600 employees in some 140 countries generating sales of CHF 2.3 billion. The family-owned company Bühler is particularly committed to sustainability.
About the EPFL Innovation Park
The EPFL Innovation Park has been set up to inspire engineers and researchers. The companies based here create a setting which fosters exchanges between corporations and start-ups, building a true sense of community. This community can benefit from the proximity of the EPFL campus, its infrastructure, services and environment.
Read more HERE.
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The opening of the Innovation Satellite in the Innovation Park of the EPFL continues the string of successful earlier projects carried out with the EPFL. For example, last spring a competition was launched with EFPL students to find ways to reduce food losses. A total of 90 ideas were generated to minimize today’s 30% loss of food from the field to people’s tables. With its industrial-scale solutions, Bühler is making a substantial contribution to optimizing the grain processing value chain and thus to mitigating hunger in the world.
Bühler operates a unique Open Innovation network and takes a state-of-the-art innovation management approach. Beside collaborating with universities and research institutes worldwide, Bühler organizes an annual Innovation Challenge with its employees around the world and fosters innovation in collaboration with customers and suppliers. The Urs Bühler Innovation Fund (UBIF), established in 2014, additionally supports the company’s innovation efforts beside the roughly 5% of its sales revenue that it invests in research and development every year.
About Bühler
Every day, billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for foods, mobility, or communication. With our industrial-scale process technologies and solutions, we contribute significantly to feeding the world’s population, setting the focus on food security and food safety. Bühler flour mills process around 65% of the wheat harvested worldwide into flour. Its contribution to processing rice and producing pasta, chocolate, or breakfast cereals is similarly important. Moreover, Bühler is a leading solution provider of die casting, wet grinding, and surface coating technologies, with an emphasis on automotive, optics, electronics, printing & packaging inks, and glass applications. The solutions provided for these industries are distinguished by high energy efficiency and sustainable mobility. As a leading technology group, Bühler invests up to 5% of its sales revenue in research and development. Bühler is proud of its Swiss roots, with 10,600 employees in some 140 countries generating sales of CHF 2.3 billion. The family-owned company Bühler is particularly committed to sustainability.
About the EPFL Innovation Park
The EPFL Innovation Park has been set up to inspire engineers and researchers. The companies based here create a setting which fosters exchanges between corporations and start-ups, building a true sense of community. This community can benefit from the proximity of the EPFL campus, its infrastructure, services and environment.
Read more HERE.
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