Weber incubator, a new service dedicated to craftsmen

During her presentation last October of Saint-Gobain Weber France's CSR policy, Charlotte Famy, Managing Director, underlined “the importance of innovating by putting the customer at the heart of the creation process”.

Far from a simple announcement effect, this desire is being confirmed by very concrete measures, including the launch today of a new service: weber incubator. It is about supporting creative artisans who innovate to reinvent their profession.

"You have the outline of a new product, service or accessory to improve your daily life and revolutionize your business, weber incubator provides you with all the help you need to go from idea to reality" asks Laetitia Lemoigne, Head of Customer Experience, by addressing artisans.

The principle is simple: a craftsman imagines a solution, in particular to gain in working comfort (the reduction of arduousness constituting a subject dear to Weber) but has neither the time nor the means to make it a reality. He then contacts Weber, via the collaborative incubator platform, who will carry out an in-depth feasibility study and support him until the patent is filed, or even until the marketing contract.

First beneficiary of this new service, Jean-Jacques Carbon, manager of the company F2J CARRELAGE in Rennes (35). On the basis of the observation that handling up to 15 buckets of 32 kg tile adhesive every day while being in a kneeling position proved to be exhausting (with in particular pain in the shoulder due to the fact of pulling it towards oneself with each advancement of the tiled floor), this tiler has thought of a clever device to move it effortlessly and mitigate any risk of MSD¹.

“A trolley that allows the buckets of glue to be transported at ground level with a relatively low center of gravity. It is a system which is extremely light, scalable and which makes life a lot easier! " says the entrepreneur. Weber incubator thus enabled him to protect his invention which will soon be distributed in France under the Weber brand (Mr. Carbon is of course financially interested in the sales of his tool).

To apply for an incubator, nothing could be simpler: on www.fr.weber, in free access, the candidate fills out a form and posts a pitch describing the uniqueness of his idea. He receives confirmation that the file has been received and will then be contacted by Weber within a few weeks to inform him of the follow-up given to his project.

1. (TMS) Musculoskeletal disorders