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Gunter Festel joins CASCAT GmbH as shareholder and non-executive director

July 29, 2016
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Gunter Festel joins CASCAT as shareholder and non-executive director to bring in his network within the biotechnology industry and financing community.

The engagement of Gunter Festel as shareholder and non-executive director strengthens the business development activities and supports future financing rounds of CASCAT. As a Founding Angel, Gunter Festel, a successful entrepreneur, has co-founded more than 10 biotechnology companies in Germany and Switzerland. He was CEO of Butalco which was sold to the French company Lesaffre in 2014. Butalco’s technology for the production of biofuels and biochemicals enables the use of waste material and thus helps towards solving the “food vs. fuel” dilemma.

Gunter Festel will bring in his long time experience of entrepreneurship and will strengthen the business development of CASCAT by his exclusive network. His confidence in the strategic approach of CASCAT underpins the chance of future achievement to realize a biobased economy by novel, synthetic process routes. We are looking forward to a succesful partnership with projects setting new benchmarks.

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Start of the joint project BIAMIN

May 15, 2016
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With a short delay the joint project BIAMIN startet officially at the 1th of April.

Within the call “Novel products for the bioeconomy” CASCAT works together with the Technical University of Munich and the Fraunhofergesellschaft on a new production route for providing different amino acids. CASCAT plays part, based on it´s Know-how, in the process management of cell-free production systems. The project is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Research.

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17. Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Chemie

May 01, 2016
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 /  by Jochen Schmid

Themed for the first time, Entrepreneurs of the future – innovative companies – successful strategies – the Handelsblatt Jahrestagung comprised an own start-up session.

Together with our buddy start-ups Hydrogenious, DexLeChem, Chromesis, CreativeQuantum, BioNukleo and EnvivoPep we had the opportunity to present our technology as well as business model to the representatives of the chemical industry. Our pitch meets the interest of the representatives and we had promising discussions and dialogues during the whole event.

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