Econick

Industry

Biorefining, Ecology & monitoring, Industrial chemistry, Remediation, Water

Topics

Organic acids & bio-based chemicals, Wastewater, water treatment & bioremediation

Role

Research / RTO — “…seven researchers from the University of Lorraine, CNRS, and INRA, the company is headquartered in Lunéville […”

Products: Écoresponsables Métaux; Composés métalliques sur mesure; Phytoremédiation

Applications

Agriculture · Land management · Environmental remediation

Customers & partners

Farmers · Landowners · Project developers

Products (website)

Écoresponsables Métaux — Metals produced sustainably from plants. · Composés métalliques sur mesure — Bespoke metallic compounds produced through sustainable processes. · Phytoremédiation — A natural method to decontaminate soils using specific plants.

Read from the company's own website: home · products · production · rnd · contact

Subsidiaries: Botanickel (joint venture with Aperam)

• 2026-01-21 Solutions: Using plants to extract nickel from soil
  Econick is a French biotechnology spin-off from the University of Lorraine that specializes in extracting compounds from soil and water using plants, and it collaborates with Aperam to advance nickel-hyperaccumulator plant projects in Malaysia. Its team of …
• 2025-06-24 Pollution au cadmium : Econick propose une solution innovante par les plantes
  Econick promotes phytoremediation as a natural solution to cadmium pollution in soils, using hyperaccumulator plants to extract cadmium and allow removal without soil treatment. They offer technical support and pilot tests for landowners or projects, with …
• 2025-06-26 Econick : le végétal au service des sols pollués - Des Hommes & des Arbres
  Econick uses phytoremediation with hyperaccumulator plants to extract cadmium from polluted soils, offering feasibility studies, plant selection, technical support, and metal recovery for industrial or public projects. It is a Des Hommes et Des Arbres–labeled …
• 2026-07-01 Недалеч, в експерименталната ферма на Econick професор Гийом Ечевария и
  The article describes Econick professor Guillaume Echevaria and his team, at their experimental farm, cultivating new hyper-accumulator plants to be tested worldwide. It emphasizes the preparation of seedlings and plants for future trials in contaminated …
• 2025-12-16 Café Scalen x Neo-Eco - Le potentiel du territoire Bar-le-Duc Sud Meuse à devenir un cluster de l'économie circulaire - Agence Scalen
  Econick, led by Claire Hazotte, is a biotechnologies company that produces eco-responsible metals from plants. They are highlighted as a key player alongside Néocem in the discussion of transitioning Bar-le-Duc Sud Meuse toward a circular economy cluster.
• 2026-08-12 Фитомайнинг: как в мире получают металлы из растений? | Добывающая промышленность
  Econick is a subsidiary of the University of Lorraine involved in a joint venture with Aperam to develop bionickel from plants, through the Botanickel project aimed at producing nickel for stainless steel.

Ownership & investors 1

Partners & deals 2

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