Congested traffic, traffic jams, noise and exhaust emissions - motorized traffic poses challenges to cities and their inhabitants and demands a lot from them. But fortunately, there are solutions that can reduce and prevent the negative effects of urban traffic. Emanuell Tomes, CTO and co-founder of the LTS AG, highlights the potential of smart traffic sensors in an interview and tells how the sensors made it to Dubai.

Almatech SA is a Swiss high-tech company based at the EPFL Innovation Park campus that provides innovative engineering equipment and services for the space and naval industries. This company has developed a high-speed hydrogen-powered maritime shuttle for passenger transportation: the Zero Emission Speed ShuTtle, ZESST for short. Almatech was able to seal a partnership in Japan for the production of shuttles with the support of S-GE.

The Swiss company GEOTEST offers its services in the field of geosciences across the globe; this also includes Chile, where it has been active for around 10 years. Read on to discover why they decided to open a branch in Santiago de Chile, 12,000 km away, five years ago and what the most important success factors are locally.

Wyssen Avalanche Control AG from Reichenbach im Kandertal (BE) manufactures special avalanche detonation masts. This is a product that has already been installed 380 times in order to protect ski runs, roads and railway lines from avalanches. In an interview, CEO Samuel Wyssen discusses the specifics of the export strategy and reveals his recipe for success.

Smixin AG, based in Biel, develops systems for hand washing: they do not only work contact-free to eliminate the risk of germ transmission, but they also save resources. Smixin’s mission is to save 10 billion liters of water by 2021. Thomas Dechorgnat, Head of Quality and Regulatory Affairs at Smixin, explains how this business model has developed and how such cleantech products can be successful on the international market.

The company from Worb in the Canton of Bern specializes in the cleaning of the inside of containers. At the moment, this system is predominantly used to clean wine barrels around the world. More than half of the company’s sales come from successful export business alone, and this share is set to continually grow in the years to come, partly thanks to the further development of its business model.

Based in Eastern Switzerland, Schmid energy solutions develops and produces wood heating systems for district heating networks and industrial enterprises. The company now intends to expand this business to the US, Canada and Scandinavia. In order to receive support in this internationalization process, the company has registered with the Cleantech CUBE.  

At Jobst Willers Engineering AG the main tasks include creating optimal climatic conditions for cleanrooms and operating theaters, precise planning of comfort levels for administration and office buildings and the development of decarbonized area energy concepts. The Swiss cleantech company is booming, and the number of employees has doubled over the last five years to 60. The company has now set its sights on China.