INCRO SA

Their core work

INCRO SA is a Madrid-based private company operating at the intersection of industrial ecology, circular economy facilitation, and bio-based value chains. Their work centers on enabling industrial symbiosis — identifying opportunities where one company's waste stream becomes another's input, particularly around CO2 utilization, waste heat recovery, and wastewater. In the B-FERST project they supported the scale-up of bio-based fertilising products and biostimulants toward commercial agricultural markets, handling logistics and business plan development. In CORALIS they took an active participant role as an IS (Industrial Symbiosis) facilitator, helping build new cross-sector resource-sharing relationships between industrial actors.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

INCRO SA entered H2020 through the agri-food door, supporting the commercial scale-up of bio-based soil inputs — fertilisers, biostimulants, and nutrient cycling — with a clear emphasis on logistics and business planning rather than lab research. Their second project, CORALIS, marks a shift toward industrial ecology at a broader scale: CO2 utilization, waste heat recovery, and wastewater enter the picture alongside their established circular economy framing. The trajectory suggests a company moving from niche bio-based agricultural markets toward becoming a cross-sector industrial symbiosis broker.

INCRO SA appears to be positioning as a specialist facilitator for industrial resource-exchange networks, making them a relevant partner for any consortium needing a bridge between waste-generating industries and resource-hungry ones.

How they like to work

INCRO SA has not led any H2020 project — all roles are either third party or participant, which suggests they join consortia as a specialist contributor rather than driving them. Their participation in CORALIS as a formal participant (with EC funding) indicates they can take on substantive delivery roles, not just advisory ones. With 45 unique partners across 11 countries from just 2 distinct projects, they have been embedded in large, complex consortia.

INCRO SA has built a surprisingly broad network for a company with only two distinct projects — 45 unique partners across 11 countries, reflecting the large consortium structures typical of Innovation Actions in the circular economy space. No strong geographic concentration is detectable from the available data.

What sets them apart

INCRO SA occupies an unusual space as a private company that acts as an industrial symbiosis facilitator — a role more commonly filled by public agencies or research institutes. This commercial orientation likely means they bring deal-making capability and market knowledge alongside technical understanding. For consortium builders in circular economy or bio-based sectors who need a partner that can translate research outputs into industrial practice, INCRO SA fills a gap that universities and research centres typically cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CORALIS
  INCRO SA's only funded participant role (EUR 698,469), explicitly listed as an Industrial Symbiosis facilitator in a 2020-2025 project covering CO2 utilization, waste heat recovery, and wastewater — their most commercially sophisticated engagement.
• B-FERST
  A 2019-2024 Innovation Action on bio-based fertilisers where INCRO SA contributed as a third party focused on logistics and business planning, signalling a commercialisation-focused role in agri-food circular supply chains.