ELLINOGERMANIKI ETAIREIA DIACHEIRISIS APOVLITON KAI PERIVALLONTIKON EFARMOGON SOYK ELLAS EPE

Their core work

SUK is a Greek-German private SME specialising in environmental and industrial materials applications, particularly advanced membrane technologies and CO2 capture systems. In practice, they contribute applied industrial expertise to European R&D consortia working on nano-enabled separation materials — including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), carbon nanotubes, and hybrid membrane structures. Their work bridges laboratory-scale material science and real-world industrial deployment, with a specific track record in adsorption-based CO2 capture and manufacturing-scale membrane production. The company's environmental mandate (waste management and environmental applications, per its registered name) grounds their technical work in industrial sustainability and decarbonisation challenges.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first H2020 project (CARMOF, 2018) was tightly focused on a specific industrial problem: removing CO2 from industrial gases using novel adsorbents — MOFs, carbon nanotubes, hybrid membranes, and vacuum thermal swing systems. By 2020, with INNOMEM, the focus shifted away from a single application and toward building shared infrastructure: an open innovation test bed for the broader membrane technology community, with emphasis on manufacturing readiness and material characterisation methods. This trajectory suggests SUK is moving from being a problem-specific technical contributor toward a more platform-oriented role — supporting the industrialisation of membrane technologies across multiple application areas, not only CO2 capture.

SUK appears to be broadening from niche CO2 capture applications toward infrastructure-level membrane technology support — making them increasingly relevant to any consortium needing industrial scale-up or manufacturing pilot expertise in advanced separation materials.

How they like to work

SUK has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both projects — they have not coordinated any H2020 project. This suggests they function as a specialist contributor brought in for specific technical or industrial expertise, rather than as a consortium builder. Their two projects involved very large consortia (51 unique partners across 13 countries), indicating they are comfortable operating in complex, multi-stakeholder European projects without needing a leadership role.

SUK has engaged with 51 unique consortium partners across 13 countries through just two projects, which is unusually broad for an organisation this size — reflecting the large, pan-European consortia typical of Innovation Action grants. No strong geographic concentration is visible from the data, suggesting their partnerships are driven by technical fit rather than proximity.

What sets them apart

SUK is a rare Greek SME operating at the intersection of environmental industrial services and frontier materials science — specifically nano-enabled membranes and CO2 capture — which gives them credibility in both regulatory/environmental compliance contexts and advanced materials R&D. Their Greek-German identity (reflected in the company name) and dual project track record in Innovation Actions suggests they can bridge Southern European industrial networks with Central European R&D ecosystems. For a consortium builder, they offer an SME perspective, applied environmental expertise, and demonstrated capacity to absorb and contribute to complex membrane and separation technology projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CARMOF
  The larger of the two projects at €469,000 EC funding, CARMOF tackled a genuinely difficult industrial challenge — efficient CO2 capture using a combination of MOFs, carbon nanotubes, and vacuum temperature swing adsorption — making it SUK's most technically ambitious and well-funded engagement.
• INNOMEM
  INNOMEM is an open innovation test bed — a flagship EU infrastructure instrument — meaning SUK gained access to and contributed to a shared European facility for nano-enabled membrane development and manufacturing, a high-visibility role for a small SME.