Gilles Subra, winner of the 2025 Innovation Award!

Gilles Subra has received the 2025 Innovation Award – Chemistry Cluster for the industrial chair Sicle.e, an innovative project focused on leather tanning using silicic acid — a more environmentally friendly approach.

🧪 This groundbreaking innovation is the result of an ambitious collaborative effort involving:

• the CTC Group (Leather Technical Centre)

• the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules (IBMM)

• the Charles Gerhardt Institute of Montpellier (ICGM)

• the CIRAD BioWooEB Laboratory – Biomass, Wood, Energy, and Bioproducts

🎯  Their shared goal: to promote a more sustainable leather industry by leveraging silicon-based resources to develop eco-friendly technologies and to valorize leather waste, particularly for agricultural applications.

🏆  This award was presented as part of the 2025 Innovation Awards of the Montpellier University Innovation Hub, led by the University of Montpellier.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve36SzlZfBY

👏  Congratulations!