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Reduce your

energy use

by +20%

by making production processes more efficient.

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The problem in industry

Energy Efficiency Sucks: Why Traditional Approaches Fail.

Globally, Industry accounts for over 30% of all emissions. $700 billions were poured into energy efficiency in 2024, but the result was a weak 1% improvement, despite of an expected 4% progress.

Since 2022, energy prices have tripled and energy markets have become more volatile than ever. Manufacturing Executives are left with zero control over energy costs and CO2 emissions. While blooding cash with existing solutions, yet they haven’t found a way out.

Why? The traditional approach is focused on energy management, not energy optimization. Existing solutions in manufacturing are hard-coded, outdated, complex, and requires constant human intervention. That‘s simply not working.

The worst of all? Lacking of willingness to challenge the status quo!

Energy Reduction Solution

for industrial manufacturing

BeChained built an AI-powered Industrial Operating System that reduces energy use in specific production processes.

  • We build a Digital Twin of the process, a virtual clone of its behaviour.
  • Our AI continuously identifies the optimal settings on machines.
  • Finally, it can take control of the process and implement the improvements directly in production.

 

 

We experienced a cut in energy use

and machine downtime by +20%

in the following production processes

Water management

Thermal processes (i.e. furnaces, pasteurizers,…)

Air compressors

Extractor hoods

Grinders

Case Studies

Steel and other alloys

Discover how Bechained is working with some of the world’s leading Steel manufacturers to create and certify green steel.

Paper and cardboard

Bechained works alongside Europe's leading paper and cardboard mills and has reduced consumption by over 30% across multiple sites.

Food preparation

Learn more about how Bechain's AI driven energy monitoring is helping food production plants save power and create even greener products.

Physical AI to automatize efficiency

Continuous Process Optimization

Autonomous & Plug-and-Play OS

  • Autonomous Decision-Making: Unlike traditional, hard-coded systems, our type of AI (called Reinforcement Learning) is an autonomous Operative System for manufacturers, built on a patented method. It is Plug-and-Play: it learns from every action and adapts to ever-changing production environments (i.e. machine wear, external air humidity, market price).
  • Predictive Maintenance: By continuously monitoring machine data, our system not only optimizes for energy, but also detects anomalies, allowing you to prevent downtimes before they occur.
  • Zero Client Input: Continuous savings delivered with less emissions and greater uptime. Best of all? No client input needed.

Key benefits

  • We guarantee +20% energy use reduction. Then, continuously 5% Year-to-Year,
  • And equally cuts CO2 emissions (scope 1 and 2).
  • This translates in a 7% cut on COGS.
  • The implementation costs can be compensated with incomes from ETS.
  • It converts energy efficiency into Demand-Side Response: a new revenue stream for manufacturers.

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Meet the team

Our blended team brings +50 years of combined expertise in energy, engineering, and data science

Stefano

Melchior

CEO & Founder

3x founder. +20 years of experience in Operations. MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Exec Master in Business Analytics (ESADE Barcelona). MBA at Politecnico di Milan.
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María

Guasch M.

RL Data scientist

Industrial Ph.D.

Great mathematician with years of experience in a biotech startup.
She joined BeChained, enrolling in an Industrial Ph.D., to develop our trailblazing optimization products.
She plays a pivotal role in boosting thermal Process Optimization.
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Elena

Gallego M.

RL Data scientist

MSc. in Artificial Intelligence (KU Leuven, Belgium).
Degree in Economic at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).
She delivers optimization in Production Processes, translating into client’s incomes from Demand-Side Response markets.
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Alberto

Corradin

AI Engineer

Ph.D. in Information Technology with extensive experience in data analysis across both research and enterprise environments. Winner of the DREAM4 Challenge (2009), he collaborated with prestigious institutions including the University of Padua, Columbia University, UCLA & Veneto Institute of Oncology. He will coordinate the BarnOwl Project.

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Pawel

Skorupiski

Backend engineer

Brilliant software engineer with a background in front and backend. With international experience and a Cloud based system mastery.

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Francisco

Roldán S.

RL data science researcher

PhD in AI at Dublin and MSc in Computer Vision at UAB (Barcelona). He takes academic background down-to-earth to develop optimization models in industry.

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Advisors

Janne

Öfversten

KONE

Currently Head of Digital & Sustainability Innovations at Kone in Finland. His carrier comprises two decades of experience in Nokia (across IoT, energy and power, and technology) and one in Digital Innovation at Kone.
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Oliver

Wolf

Deutsche Bahn

Currently Customer Experience Manager at Deutsche Bahn.
He worked in the development of Long Distance Trains and different International Executive tenures at Lufthansa.
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Reghu

Ram

Deutsche Telekom

SVP of Fintech Products and Digitals at Deutsche Telekom.
His career comprises Exec roles in Deutsche Telekom and SAP; Executive education in Insead and HBS.
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Our commitment to the
Sustainable Development Goals

Our vision is to prevent 65M tCO2 per year in industrial process. We are trailblazing the fully autonomous and green factories of tomorrow.

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