Our innovative force must enable all our customers to enter the age of the resource revolution and to stay ahead of the game. To reach this goal, we innovate every day with our researchers and partners, for a mart and sustainable resource management.
Supporting our clients towards a sustainable growth model
Our strategy relies on an ambitious research and innovation policy goals to make measurable contributions to the resource revolution. Allowing for a highly differentiated offer and enables our customers to achieve greater efficiency in the environmental management.
Transforming waste into value
The creation of secondary raw materials is at the heart of the new circular economy. It’s a way of coping with the increasing scarcity of natural resources and rising raw materials costs. We’re innovating to accelerate recycling and offer real world solutions to our customers.
As the population grows and urbanization continues, the pressure on water resources is increased. We’re addressing this by developing innovative solutions, like the artificial aquifer recharge, desalination and the reuse of waste water technology.
Digital technology is an efficient way to approach the environmental issues facing our customers around the world. We constantly innovate, to support their initiatives to improve the performance of their facilities.
Optimizing the water and wastewater treatment networks
Climate change, rampant urbanization and ever stricter regulations, the management of water has become more complex than ever. On the strength of our expertise, we work to develop new solutions capable of monitoring water networks in real time to continuously improve the quality of the water delivered.
Every year, we invest in research and innovation projects to improve the quality of water supplies and works hand in hand with the French and international regulatory authorities. Our company develops new technologies to eliminate emerging pollutants in its dedicated research laboratory.
At SUEZ, we’re combating climate change by developing innovative solutions to reduce our customers’ greenhouse gas emissions, to optimize their energy consumption and to encourage the use of high-potential renewables.
Our innovation policy is based on various programs and projects managed internally, and with a strong commitment to open innovation, in order to shorten development cycles and to reduce time-to-market of our products and services. We've invested €97 million in 2017 into these programs.
17
research and expertise centers
€97
million
invested in R&D
650
experts and reseachers
Our research and expertise centers
With our worldwide network of research and expertise centers, we offer advanced technical and scientific know-how in water and waste that is capable of solving the new challenges facing our customers.
We adopt a partnership-based approach with third-party companies through technological tests. These tests ensure that innovative solutions, regardless of whether they are provided by partners that are
start-ups, large groups or small to medium-sized enterprises, are tested under industrial conditions.
We maintain long-term privileged relationships with numerous high-level scientific and technical players from different backgrounds: academic partnerships (University of Barcelona - Spain, Chinese Academy of Science etc.), international network (Global Water Research Coalition, Climate-KIC etc.) and French innovation and skills networks.