About us

- Pulsed light on an industrial level
- PhD Thesis
- Investors
- Recognition
- Claranor Mastery

Pulsed light on an industrial level
Since 2004, Claranor has established itself as an international leader of clean disinfection technologies.

Claranor, a young innovative and regularly awarded company, has gathered the necessary skills to bring pulsed light technology to an industrial level: microbiology, optics, electronics, engineering.

We established partnerships with renown experts in these fields, who accompany and advise us in specific pulsed light applications developments. Among these, INRA in microbiology, and CNRS in optics and electronics are privileged partners. Both are reference research centers in France.

Research and development constitutes a large part of our activity; two PhD thesis have been led from 2008 to 2011 (with INRA and Rouen University).

Every validation and qualification trials is realized by independent laboratories, specialists in the assessment of decontamination technologies (Fraunhofer Institut IVV, Germany).

We work for food manufacturers, beverage and dairy products industrials. We also collaborate with equipment suppliers, able to integrate the Claranor technology into a complete production line (retrofit or new equipment).

PhD Thesis
Claranor hired two young researchers for a CIFRE PhD thesis, in collaboration with well-known laboratories in their area of expertise. The studies ran from 2008 to the end of 2010.
Caroline Levy has evaluated pulsed light on the destruction of microorganisms of agri-food interest. She was based at the laboratoire de microbiologie de l’UMR A 408 INRA-Université d’Avignon de sécurité et qualité des produits d’origine végétale, and worked under the supervision of Frédéric Carlin.

Investors
Created in October 2004, the company has known three financing rounds (April 2005, September 2006 and December 2009). Besides founding member, François Cazalas, the capital is now owned by the asset management group AMUNDI PRIVATE EQUITY, EMERTEC 3E and the group NATIXIS (3 regional SCR), the holding TEPA SUCCES EUROPE and private investors.

Recognition
2005
• “Application Technological Innovation” Prize of the Packinnove Fair.
• “Business Creation Prize » of the Regional Council 2004.

2006
• Hubert Curien French National Prize whose selection committee is made of OSEO and the “RDT” (Technological Development Network), to reward the technological excellence of small and medium enterprises.

2007
• 2nd to the Business of the Future Prize of the Southern French Region, 14th in the national ranking (established by Ernst&Young, FORTIS and MICROSOFT for the “Entrepreneur of the year).

2008
• CLARANOR was nominated for the “Young Innovative Companies Prize” organized by Usine Nouvelle (a French specialized magazine) in the category “Industrial Process”.
• The industrial unit for cup decontamination by pulsed light was selected to be exhibited at the Packaging Fair 2008 on the “Trends Area”.

2011
• CLARANOR was awarded the first Meridien Mag Innovation trophy for PACA region

Claranor Mastery
Since 2004 we continue to evolve our product; we met the industrial standard, and improved it. The basis of our performance is found in independent validation, superb tailor-designed reflectors, microbiological studies and association of fields of expertise.

Working with first class science partners
And to achieve our ambitions we gathered science partners in various fields. In the field of microbiology we closely work together with institutes and laboratories on inoculation methods, industrial qualification protocols and analysis. Among others with: Fraunhofer Institut and INRA.
For industrial trials and scientific studies, we partner with Campden-BRI (UK), AZTI, IRTA (Es), Agrohall (Fr). And for the development of Optics and Electronics with LPGP-CNRS.

Optical components, tailor made
To set the standard higher, we design a specific reflector for each application. According to the product shape we design the optimal positioning of the reflector and test it extensively with a computer model. Leading in this process is the optimization of the fluency map.

Bringing electronics and microbiology together
They go hand in hand. The decontamination level obtained depends on the chosen electronic parameters. Parameters set according to Claranor equipment components and subject to a balanced optimization between efficiency and savings.
This is the equation we continually make: the higher the voltage, the more powerful the treatment is. But. The shorter the life span of the lamp and the higher the operating costs of the system. We make the perfect balance: the best decontamination for the best price.

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