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What is BlueChem?

Helping growth companies develop sustainable innovations for the chemistry of the future. That is the aim of the BlueChem incubator, a unique partnership between industry, government and knowledge institutions.

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Labs and offices

The BlueChem incubator offers a mix of flexible workspaces, private offices, meeting rooms and laboratories for research in sustainable chemistry. Some labs are fully equipped, the others are customisable according to your specific needs.
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Prime location

BlueChem is located at Blue Gate Antwerp, the first circular, eco-effective and water-bound business park in Belgium. A prime location in the Antwerp port area, home to Europe’s largest integrated chemical cluster.
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BlueChem Kickstart Fund

The city of Antwerp offers BlueChem tenants financial support to furnish their laboratory through the BlueChem Kickstart Fund.
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All-in services and support

BlueChem works with exclusive partners to provide tenants the maximum support with the best expertise, for example in the areas of business development, legal advice, HR management, intellectual property, etc.
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International business network and unique academic ecosystem

BlueChem operates within an ecosystem of open innovation with direct links to international chemical companies, all five Flemish universities and renowned research centres. Catalisti, the spearhead cluster for the chemical and plastics industry in Flanders, also plays an active role in BlueChem.

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BlueChem provides the right facilities in the right place to enable ground-breaking ideas to grow from lab experiments into new chemical companies with a strong focus on sustainability and the circular economy.

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  • BlueChem is a beacon of hope, an example of thinking ahead. Anyone walking around here is impressed by the courage of young entrepreneurs to innovate from a position of powerful progress optimism for greater sustainability.

     

    Bart De Wever
    Mayor ‐ City of Antwerp

  • At many incubators, you just rent office space. At BlueChem, the cards are different: here we are in an ecosystem that has an abundance of knowledge about and contacts in the chemicals sector. Moreover, this is an incubator with a strong positioning, both industrially and technologically. This immediately makes BlueChem also a kind of quality label for start-ups, SMEs, knowledge institutions and financiers.

     

    Steven Peleman
    CEO ‐ Triple Helix

  • At BlueChem, we immediately had all the facilities such as gas, chemical water, logistics, etc. There is also a lot of cross-fertilisation between the start-ups. We make a lot of connections with companies that are in the same sector as us. So it is really an added value to use them as a sounding board.

    Jorg Schelfhout
    Co-founder ‐ Allegro

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