The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, announced last Thursday the people and entities awarded with the National Innovation and Design Awards 2024, as “the most important recognition in Spain in the fields of innovation and design”.
BIOLAN has been recognized as National Innovation Award in the modality of Small and Medium Innovative Company of 2024.
This award is a recognition of BIOLAN’s business trajectory, an example of a firm and unquestionable commitment to innovation as a central axis of its business strategy and competitiveness.
In its trajectory BIOLAN has been developing and commercializing different analysis and diagnostic tools, mainly based on biosensors, for the quantification of parameters of interest in the food industry, achieving a diversification of markets, ranging from the fishing sector with the determination of histamine, crustaceans with the control of sulphite, the dairy sector for the quantification of lactose, the meat sector with the measurement of nitrite, as well as the solution for the measurement of salt in all types of food, among others.
In 2014 BIOLAN identified the opportunity to direct all the scientific-technological knowledge towards the health sector to provide new solutions in the diagnosis and monitoring of health by betting on a new business line oriented to this sector, BIOLAN HEALTH, putting on the market Point of Care (PoC) devices, for example, for the diagnosis of lactose intolerance, and rapid tests based on immunoassays such as the COVID-19 antigen and antibody tests.
It 2017 BIOLAN understood that the digitalization of its products and its own processes constituted an opportunity for the improvement of its competitiveness, and thus took the decision to address the digital transformation of its products and processes by providing connectivity to its biosensors and developing a platform for data capture, analysis and visualization, a new range of products that was launched to the market in 2021. Such an effort in digitization of a biotech company like BIOLAN was recognized with the National Connected Industry 4.0 Award in 2022.
Innovation is innate to BIOLAN, based on the conviction that a value proposition with innovative solutions is the key to success and competitiveness, and has led the company to compete successfully in more than sixty countries with high value-added products in both the health and food sectors, with a continuously expanding product portfolio, allowing for sustainable business growth.
Currently, BIOLAN’s commitment to innovation continues to focus on the two major trends such as digitalization and sustainability, and from there, to work beyond technological innovation, also addressing innovation in manufacturing processes, internal management, labor welfare, and its commitment to respect the environment.
This commitment to innovation underlies the entire organization, with the involvement of a large multidisciplinary professional team of more than 100 people, which makes it possible every day that BIOLAN continues to reap success and achieve awards such as this National Innovation Award 2024.