Drome. Discover the six winners of the Agglo de Valence Business Trophies

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The Valencia metropolitan area (Drome) teeming with inspired entrepreneurs. This year again, the innovation competition « Company trophies », worn by Valence Romans Agglo, testifies to this. This competition highlights the innovations of local companies, whether technical, managerial, societal, ecological or digital, through five categories and six trophies.

No less than 58 projectswere in the running in 2024. The winners were rewarded on Thursday, November 21, at the Valence Exhibition Center, in front of an audience bringing together more than 500 people.

Open to all businesses in the Agglomeration

Companies could apply in one of the five categories :

• Creative ;
• Productive;
• Connected;
• Sustainable and committed;
• Clubs and business networks.

This year, the competition was open from August 26 to October 24. Participation was free and open to all businesses in the Agglomeration, all sizes and all sectors of activity. The same company could submit several files – one file per innovation – and the actions presented had to be less than one year old.

The jury selected one winner per category and therefore awarded five trophies . The trophy Favorite was, for its part, chosen by the public who voted online, from November 14 to 21, on the website of Valence Romans Agglo and live during the evening.

The rewarded projects in detail

In total, six projects were rewarded. Here are the details:

• Productive trophy: the company “Treewater” located in Alixan. Its innovative “ElectRotate” water treatment process makes it possible to meet the challenges posed by the electrochemical treatment of water by advanced oxidation.
• Creative trophy: “Among the Fireflies” movies. The production company is producing its second feature film Dogs don't make cats.
• Connected trophy: the Valentin company Aphelio. Its CyberSmartLearn (CSL) Security software makes it possible to strengthen the security of the IT equipment of businesses and communities in order to protect against cyberattacks, while meeting new cybersecurity requirements, such as the Cyber ​​Resilience Act and the NIS2 directive.

• Sustainable and committed trophy: the Rhône Ciments website of Portes-lès-Valence of the start-up Cem'In'Eu, specialized in the production of cement in Europe. Since the creation of the company in 2016, the selection of a high-performance clinker has allowed Cem'In'Eu to optimize its recipes by replacing a significant portion of clinker with other CO2-neutral products.
• Club and business network trophy: Businesses of the heart.Launched in August 2024 by a group of companies committed to the region, the Les Entreprises du cœur endowment fund supports local associations of general interest acting in favor of people in precarious and very precarious situations.
• Favorite: Car man. Eofleet, created by Bonhomme automobiles, is an independent SaaS software that simplifies and optimizes the management of multi-brand automobile fleets of SMEs.

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