Purency
- Original Title: Purency
- Year: 2022
- Award: WSA European Young Innovators
- Category: European Young Innovators
- Producer: Aurelia Liechtenstein, Valerie Hengl, Benedikt Hufnagl, Michael Stibi
- Country: Austria
- URL: https://www.purency.ai/
Purency is an Austrian software company that bundled years of research and expertise in chemical engineering and data analysis in their software solutions for vibrational spectroscopy. The Microplastics Finder, Purency’s flagship product, is a powerful tool based on machine learning and provides a robust and reliable solution to laboratories that analyze microplastics. Laboratories are enabled to recognize type, size and quantity of microplastic particles within minutes – even in complex samples.
Purency has been recognized by WSA as exemplary in helping meet UN SDG 3: Good Health and well-being, UN SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation, UN SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production, UN SDG 14: Life below water and UN SDG15: Life on land.
It was given the WSA European Young Innovators Award for the category European Young Innovators.