Le Vivier technology park is home to numerous business success stories, including Asyril, the leading provider of flexible feeding systems.
Le Vivier technology park is home to numerous business success stories, including Asyril, the leading provider of flexible feeding systems.
Le Vivier Technology Park is a Swiss hub of industrial engineering and innovation based in Fribourg. It has attracted a host of trailblazing companies like Rovenso, which provides autonomous robots for industrial site surveillance and security; REGENHU, which uses 3D bioprinters to produce human tissue and organs; and Asyril, which specializes in the development and manufacture of ingenious 3-axis feeding and sorting systems.
The Fribourg incubator, spearheaded by the Nivalis Group, provides businesses with critical support to further develop and fine-tune their cutting-edge industrial products and processes. As Christophe Fragnière, president and co-founder of the Nivalis Group and Le Vivier, explains, “By investing financial and human capital in promising start-ups, we free up entrepreneurs to focus on realizing their business idea and identifying the added value they can bring to it.”
In 2002, this ‘engineering sciences campus’ was born out of the desire on the part of CPAutomation to outsource some of its innovation activities. According to Fragnière, “This was when we became aware of the difficulties and obstacles that entrepreneurs can come against when trying to implement their ideas.” CPAutomation, which now provides standard and special machine solutions for industries like watchmaking and medtech, was the first company to move in.
eForging, one-of-a-kind technology
Among the latest start-ups to arrive at Le Vivier is Bionomous, which develops laboratory instruments for the automated manipulation of miniature biological entities used in life sciences research. The ability to generate faster and more reliable results will be a major boon for many fields like cancer diagnostics, drug development and toxicology research.
EPoS Technologies, a start-up that recently raised CHF 1 million in a late seed funding round led by Nivalis Group, specializes in the development of a unique and disruptive electro-sintering technology. Commonly referred to as eForging, this technology makes it possible to create completely new materials and to produce parts with unprecedented precision, density and resistance.