The last edition of SEPAWA CONGRESS 2022 was successfully held

Personal Care and Home Care were the main thematic of the 'Forum for Innovation' that celebrated during the event

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16 of January of 2023
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Photo by SEPAWA CONGRESS 2022 during the celebration of the event
Photo by SEPAWA CONGRESS 2022 during the celebration of the event

Last October 2022, the most important meeting for the detergents, cosmetics and fragrances industry was held in the city of Berlin today on the European continent. In SEPAWA CONGRESS 2022 also participated European Detergents Conference (by GDCh) and DGP Conference Cosmetic Science Conference (by DGK) in the conference program.

Within the event, more than 150 conferences of major international professionals experts in the sector were held, in which the main innovations and findings of research and development were presented.

Companies such as BASF, Biogründl, Iberchem, KAO (Europe), Provital, Rahn, Safic-Alcan, Special Chemicals, Symrise, Vytrus Biotech and Zschmimmer & Schwarz were among the extensive list of exhibitors of the congress held between 26 and 28 October.

The organization manages an approximate number of attendees to the Congress of more than 3175 people and a total of 302 companies, according to the data obtained from the registry. Most of these exhibitors were from Europe (95.6%), but as the attendance data indicate, some companies from North America and Asia also wanted to be present at the most important congress of the European continent.

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The vast majority of the attendees belonged to the ingredients business area, although distributors and laboratories were also present. The segment of the industry most represented in SEPAWA CONGRESS 2022 was 'Personal Care', with approximately 40%, according to the first analyses by SEPAWA itself and 36.2% belonged to Home Care. The fragrance sector occupied almost 10% (9.7%).

The cosmetics science, ultimately, the cosmetics and science sector was the main field of 59 sciences conferences offered during 26.27 and 28 October in Berlin with 42.3%, followed by fundamental research with 20.3% and Home Care with 15.2%. On the other hand, the main category of the 'Forum for Innovation', which took place in total 92, revolved around Personal Care 45.6%) and 34.8% focused on Home Care.

Some of the main novelties that characterized this edition of the SEPAWA Congress, were for example those related to Sustainable Packaging. Forums for Innovation, for example, served companies like Vytrus BioTech to provide information about their assets, such as Elaya Renova. Some of these conferences were identified as 'special' because of their high interest, such as the one chaired by Marcus Gast, conducted by Dr. Alex Föller, '"Generic approach to risk management" and other dubious elements of the chemical strategy for sustainability'. Of course, REACH also had its space in these 'Scientific Conference' of SEPAWA and small awards galas were held in recognition of young researchers during Thursday 27. 

To culminate the last afternoon of event, SEPAWA 2022 celebrated a 'After Event' in the which gave quotes the entertainment, entertainment and prizes.

The celebration of the Congress had a list of Sponsors between the which found BASF and 'Sustaining Members' to which appreciate his support, collaboration, and participation like Provital, Nouryon and the previously appointed BASF, between many others.

Next edition 2023

For the next edition, the location will be the same: ECC Estrel Congress Center Berlin and the date of celebration will be from 25 to 27 October, again, from Wednesday to Friday. Some sections of the website are already available, such as the awards to which you can apply through the official congress website. The 'Innovation Award', SEPAWA SPONSORSHIP AWARD‍ EV (to promote young research scientists) and GDCH SPONSORSHIP AWARD (which is intended for the best master’s and doctoral theses in the field of chemistry, physical chemistry and formulation science for the detergent industry and cleaning agents). Registration is open until April 2.