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Cobelgal
Lda. is a Portuguese company specialising in commercialisation and
R&D activities in environmental
care
technologies.
The
firm is owned and managed by Mr.
Joris De Vos, an
agricultural
engineer with extensive expertise in technology
transfer in numerous developing countries including Brazil,
Mongolia, Poland, and Cameroun.
Prior
to forming Cobelgal, Mr. De Vos worked
for
14
years
for the Belgian
consulting
company Tractebel
(which
has
3000
employees,
1800
of
which
are
engineers). Within
Tractebel
he
assumed
the
responsibility
of
Marketing
Manager
for
South
America
and
the
Middle
East.
During
his
last
four
years,
he
was
the
General
Manager
of
Tractebel's
branch
active
in
solar energy and
production
photo-voltaic
cells
and
systems.
Mr.
De Vos has built excellent relations with the European Commssion
through various projects in the
JOULE,
THERMIE,
AIR,
and FAIR programs.
Cobelgal was the main contractor of the Bamboo
for Europe project. This project included a work
package on the industrial transformation of bamboo that
was coordinated by Mr. De Vos. Cobelgal was also
involved in the FAIR project entitled "Optimisation
of the production chain for high performance light natural sandwich
materials (LNS) as a basis for scaling-up" which dealt
with the use of bamboo in LNS boards.
The
first
research
contract
concerning
bamboo
co-funded
by
the
European
Commission
was
signed
by
Cobelgal
in
1992.
Cobelgal
is actively seeking to valorise the research results of Bamboo for
Europe
mainly
in
the
field
of
wastewaters
treatment
plants
based
on
the
"constructed
wetlands"
technology
and
using
bamboo
as
a
crop.
Several
units
are
operational
or
under
construction.
Mr.
De Vos will play
a key role in the Bamboo Thematic Network as the project's
'Industrial Coordinator' who will manage all activities of the
network relating to the industrialisation and valorisation of
bamboo.
The
recent works of Mr. Joris De Vos include:
Van
Acker, J., Devos J., Degeyter S., Stevens M. (2000) Bamboo as a
raw material for wood processing in Europe.
Paper presented at the IUFRO meeting in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, August 2000.
Reports
of Bamboo for Europe, FAIR project
Reports
on Light Natural Sandwich, utilizing bamboo as construction
material.
Etude
de Faisabilité de Bambou dans de Sud de l’Europe, EU
feasibility study,
1992.
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