CARSO INVESTMENT

The CARSO Group (8% Revenue in R&D) is the French leader in analytical services, operating through 6 BUs: Environment (Water, Air), Agri-food, Hygiene/Building, Energy/Waste/Radioactivity, Pharma/Cosmetics, and Forensics.
Our R&D efforts (50-60 projects/year) target analytical innovation relevant to the Axelera cluster:
Emerging Pollutants: Developing analytical methods for PFAS, Microplastics, and Water Reuse (REUT).
Bio-monitoring: Expertise in Environmental DNA (eDNA) and use of Bio-indicators (Biota).
Productivity & Breakthrough Technologies: Advanced Automation projects for labs (Bacteriology/Chemistry) and AI integration (e.g., asbestos analysis).
Circular Economy: Waste Valorization and analysis (Graphitization, Bio-waste).
We actively seek partnerships for the co-maturation of TRL 3-6 technologies.

Our key projects, highly relevant to the Axelera cluster, focus on:
Emerging Pollutants, Bio-monitoring, Productivity & Circularity and Breakthrough Tech such as IA.

Our offering is based on highly specialized analytical expertise (over 7,000 parameters) and is deployed across 6 BUs:
Environment: Water, Air, Soil, Radioactivity, Ecotoxicology, Bio-monitoring.
Agri-food: Nutritional analysis, Microbiology, Contaminants (Pesticides, GMOs, Allergens, Mycotoxins).
Industrial Hygiene & Building Health: Asbestos, Lead, Radon, Building pollutants, Occupational exposures.
Energy & Transition: Fuels, Waste (Graphitization, Valorization), Radioprotection.
Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics: Microbiology, Physico-chemistry, Molecular Biology, Stability testing.
Judicial Expertise/Forensics: Toxicology, Genetic fingerprints, Morphological trace analysis.
Associated Services: Consulting, Auditing, Expertise, and On-site sampling. We are seeking TRL 3-6 partnerships to co-mature these innovations.