ECOIND: your ideal partner for environmental research Excellence in environmental research and services

Margareta Nicolau

General Manager, ECOIND

ECOIND (formerly ICPEAR) is the National Research&Development Institute for Industrial Ecology. Founded in 1978 as a research and design institute for the treatment of wastewater from industrial activities, mainly from the chemical and petrochemical industry, the institute has extended its activity field, so that the present activity includes:

Our institute has a portfolio of references referring to research projects for all above-mentioned fields, for all the major industrial pollutants in the country. Since 1990, our institute has carried out projects in co-operation with foreign partners (France, the Netherlands, USA, Germany, Moldavia) in different activity fields: pollution control, environmental technologies (drinking and wastewater), and environmental management.

The existence of specialized, higly-trained personnel, as well as modern and performing laboratory and micro-pilot equipment allows a competitive approach of the complex and multi-disciplinary environmental issues in all above-mentioned directions.

Many of the control methods and techniques and of the environmental technologies (physical-chemical and/or biological technologies) are original communicated or patented solutions.

Our institute has implemented an integrated quality system in compliance with the ISO 9001 standard requirements (certified by Veritas Quality International Bureau in September 1999) and EN ISO 45001.
Foundation date: 1999, by transformation of ICPEAR into National Institute.