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STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION<\/p>\n<\/div>

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DISTRIBUTION OF HIGH-QUALITY SPECIALTY CHEMICALS<\/p>\n<\/div>

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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BIOECONOMY<\/p>\n<\/div>

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CORVAY<\/h2>\n

Bioeconomy is our passion!<\/h3>\n

Corvay is your system provider for services along the bioeconomy value chain. From development to marketing & sales to the founding of new companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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CORVAY – FROM CLUSTER MANAGER TO CONSULTING, TRADING AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Corvay was founded in 2006, before that the company was called BioRegioN, founded as a GmbH in 2002. Since 1996, co-founder and later sole owner Albrecht L\u00e4ufer, together with a large network of academia, industry and associations, had represented the city triangle Braunschweig-G\u00f6ttingen-Hannover in the Bioregio competition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. <\/p>\n

Cluster management was the main business until 2010; numerous networking events were successfully held and almost 100 company start-ups were actively supported on behalf of the state. From 2006, consulting for biotech companies on a private sector basis was added, hence the renaming to Corvay. From 2008, consulting was followed by interim management: business development for Rhein Biotech, D\u00fcsseldorf, and development management for Direvo IBT, Cologne. <\/p>\n

An exciting phase began in 2011. Building on the experience gained in international management at Solvay Pharma, Solvay Enzymes and R\u00fctgerswerke, China and India increasingly came into focus. As Regional Director for a region spanning Canada, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia, and later co-founder and CEO of Vakzine Projekt Management GmbH, L\u00e4ufer was also a member of various associations, VFA, DIB and finally BIO Deutschland, the latter to this day. He became spokesman for biotechnology within the German-Chinese working group established between the BMWi and the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission) to promote cooperation on health and biotechnology. <\/p>\n

Market research for a Chinese biotechnology company that produces long-chain dicarboxylic acids on a large scale led to a subsidiary that is now called Corvay Specialty Chemicals and is now well established in Europe as a trading company for the di-acids DC10 (sebacic acid), DC11 (undecanedioic acid), DC12 (dodecanedioic acid), DC13 (tridecanedioic acid) and DC14 (tetradecanedioic acid). We have recently expanded our trading business to include vitamin D3 for food and animal feed as well as specialty enzymes. <\/p>\n

The founding of BluCon Biotech GmbH in Cologne resulted from the development management at Direvo; the investors in Direvo had decided not to pursue the topic of Blucon\u00ae any further and commissioned L\u00e4ufer with the utilization of the know-how. The highly innovative topic was still in the laboratory at the time, and unfortunately no money could be found for it in Europe. But there was in China, and so L\u00e4ufer founded Blucon Biotech in Cologne in 2017 together with his business partner Markus Fehr. An investor from Hangzhou later became involved and founded Depei Biotechnologies there; both companies are managed by L\u00e4ufer. The first pilot trial to produce lactic acid from cellulose on a cbm scale took place in 2019. The first production plant is to be built from 2022.<\/p>\n

The next offshoot of Corvay was Corvay Bioproducts GmbH, founded in Halle at the end of 2018, together with the company of Joachim Schulze, also a close business partner. Once again, a consulting topic turned into a project, and then a company: Corvay Bioproducts develops processes for the production of specialty products for the chemical industry from renewable raw materials and then wants to bring these into production with other investors. <\/p>\n

Last but not least, Corvay Consult was established in 2021 to bundle all consulting services.<\/p>\n

Corvay, this is today<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Corvay Consult, for management consulting, project development, development of corporate strategies<\/li>\n
  • Corvay Specialty Chemicals, for trading in specialty chemicals<\/li>\n
  • Corvay Bioproducts, for the development of innovative bioprocesses for the circular economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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