Biobased Coatings Europe 2026

• Cost Parity Pathways: Closing the Gap with Conventional Coatings
• Dual Constraints: Performance and Profitability as Linked Variables
• Regulation as a Determinant of Market Viability
• Microplastics Legislation: Agricultural Impacts and Seed Coating Potential
• Biodegradable Derogation: Clarifying ECHA Guidance
• Diversified Feedstocks for Supply Chain Resilience
• Ingredient Constraints and Performance Dependencies
• Industrial-Scale Bio-Butanol: Readiness and Application Potential
• Terminology Standardization Across the Coatings Value Chain
• Reconciling Biodegradability and Durability in Product Design
• Titanium Dioxide: Lifecycle Impact and Risk Mitigation

• Lucile Bonhoure, Global Sustainability Marketing Manager & Coating Solutions, ARKEMA
• Marrku Oila, Staff Chemist, Sherwin-Williams
• Tiina Keskitalo, Senior material specialist , Brightplus
• Dorothee Arns, Director General, European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC)
• Eugenie Charriere, Strategic Marketing & Business Excellence Director, Ecoat
• Dr Stefan Friebel, Senior Project Manager, Fraunhofer WKI
• Dr Martin Ocepek, Director R&D, Helios Resins
• Michael Hausmann, Specialist Material Science, Nestle
• Dr Andreas Kohl, Head of Specialty Chemicals & Catalysts, VERBIO
• Dr. Tijs Nabuurs, R&D Sustainability and Innovation, COVESTRO
• Pasquale Falcigno, Global Regulatory Affairs, BASF
• Tina Leyh, Technology Coordinator & Lab Manager R&D, MÜNZING Chemie
• John Holger, Sales Manager, UPM
• Monique Wekking, Co-founder & CCO, RELEMENT
• Eero Knuutila, CEO, Lignosphere
• Gunnar Ottosson, CEO, Ottosson Färgmakeri AB
• Frank Brouwer, Renewable Chemistry Specialist, STAHL
• Thomas Lueder, Global Director Sustainability Partnerships, Beckers Group
• Kanes Songtirapunya, ECH Sales and Marketing manager, AGC Vinythai
• Jurgen Van Holen, R&D Manager Base Oleochemicals and Process Development, OLEON
• Lola Gómez Jiménez, Researcher at the Coatings, Adhesives and Converting Group, Aimplas
• Nuno Castro, Global Architectural Coatings R&D Manager , Elementis
• Bettina Weber Wismann R&D Manager – Lacquers & Oils, JUNCKERS A/S
• Jasper Van Weerd, CEO, Lipocoat BV

• Biobased Material Producers
• Paint and Coatings Specialists
• Resin, binder, pigments and additive Companies
• Regulatory and Policy Officers
• Technology Providers
• Solution Providers
• Consultants
• Academics

LANYARD SPONSOR:

American Elements‘ catalog of more than 35,000 products makes it the world’s largest manufacturer devoted exclusively to advanced materials in both industrial bulk and laboratory/research quantities allowing us to meet the needs of thousands of global manufacturers (including over 30% of the Fortune 50 and all U.S. national laboratories & military branches) in a wide range of industry fields, including energy, electronics, aerospace, defense, automotive, optics, hydrogen storage and green technology.

www.americanelements.com

Arkema – Innovative Materials for a Sustainable World

Arkema is a global leader in specialty materials, designing innovative solutions to address today’s most demanding challenges. With a strong commitment to sustainability, the Group develops advanced materials that contribute to decarbonization, circularity, and performance across a wide range of industries — including performance materials, adhesives, and coatings.

Through its Coating Solutions segment, Arkema offers a comprehensive portfolio of technologies spanning rheology additives and high-performance resins for waterborne, solvent borne, powder, and photocurable systems. Leveraging its expertise in polymer science and formulation, Arkema partners with customers to design next-generation coating solutions that combine durability, functionality, and environmental responsibility.

Driven by its purpose to create safer solutions for people and the planet, Arkema strives to limit its impact on climate change and foster a more circular economy by preserving resources and moving away from fossil-based feedstocks.

With 21,100 employees and operations in nearly 55 countries, Arkema aims to become a pure player in innovative and sustainable materials by 2030 — creating materials that enable a more sustainable world and address the challenges of tomorrow.

www.arkema.com/global/en/markets-solutions/coatings-paints-and-inks/

Elementis is a global specialty chemical company, with circa 1,000 employees operating across 19 global locations and 12 manufacturing sites. At Elementis, we bring a distinctive combination of expertise, innovation, and teamwork to every formulation challenge. We create high-value specialty additives that enhance the performance of our customers’ products and make a positive change in the world. Combining our leading positions in the science of materials flow, surface modification, and formulation with access to unique natural materials, Elementis delivers unique chemistry and sustainable solutions to customers in a wide range of markets, including decorative and industrial coatings, automotive, ceramics and adhesives & sealants. Sustainability is a core driver of our innovation strategy. Through the development of renewable, bio-based and responsibly sourced solutions, we support our customers in meeting evolving regulatory, environmental and performance requirements. Guided by strong technical expertise and close customer collaboration, Elementis is committed to enabling more sustainable, high-performance formulations and long-term value creation.

www.elementis.com

More than 35 years of experience in the plastics industry. We provide solutions to companies throughout the value chain, from raw material manufacturers to plastic processors and end users. Our purpose is twofold: we add value to companies so that they can create wealth and provide employment and we work to solve the challenges facing the use of plastic in today’s society in order to improve people’s quality of life and ensure environmental sustainability. AIMPLAS has over 12,000 m² of facilities with cutting-edge technology, over 35 pilot plants are available to test all plastic processing applications, including thermoplastic, thermoset and composite processing and our laboratories have the highest number of accreditations for plastics according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.

www.aimplas.net

AGC Inc. was founded in 1907, and the chemical business began in 1917 with the production of soda ash, a raw material in flat glass. After nearly 100 years in business, AGC Inc. has expanded into chlor-alkali and urethane, gas and solvents, fluoroproducts, and life sciences, to produce the world’s finest products for a wide variety of fields.

Guided by the vision of “Chemistry for a Blue Planet”, at AGC Chemicals we continue to provide a wide variety of products that are useful for a fulfilling, safe and comfortable society and environment, from basic chemicals to high-function chemicals, including high performance polyols.

At AGC Chemicals Europe we have the experience of manufacturing. Our teams in Logistics, Marketing and Customer Service based in the UK and the Netherlands are able to provide solutions and support for the European chemical industry.

AGC Vinythai Public Company Limited (AGC Vinythai) was established, following the successful integration between AGC Chemicals (Thailand) Company Limited (ACTH) and Vinythai Public Company Limited (VNT), on July 1, 2022 with AGC Inc. and PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited as major shareholders. This allows AGC Vinythai to become a larger chlor-alkali player in the Southeast Asia region producing PVC resins under the trademark “SIAMVIC®”, caustic soda, and epichlorohydrin under the trademark “epinity”.

www.agc.com

Shamrock Technologies develops and manufactures additive solutions engineered to meet increasingly stringent performance and sustainability requirements in modern coatings. Our portfolio includes a wide range of PFAS‑free, bio‑based, and microplastic‑free additives designed to deliver targeted functions such as slip, abrasion resistance, release, handling efficiency, and surface modification across diverse formulation chemistries. These technologies enable formulators to balance regulatory compliance with reliable, repeatable performance. Beyond the breadth of our materials, Shamrock’s technical team works closely with customers to understand formulation challenges and application demands, collaborating to identify and fine‑tune the most effective solution for each system. The result is a problem‑solving approach grounded in materials science, formulation expertise, and real‑world performance.

www.shamrocktechnologies.com

ACI has put together a range of packages to suit your requirements. These range from branding options, to full scale partner solutions and can be tailored to meet your objectives and budgets.

If you are launching a new product or service and wish to gain visibility and brand recognition within your industry, contact us today!

For commercial opportunities, please contact:

Krisztina Szabo

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3141 0603

Email: [email protected]

Ipcm is bimonthly technical magazine for the industry of surface treatments and organic and inorganic finishes. Ipcm provides technical, scientific and practical information on all types of surface treatment: liquid coatings, powder coatings, coil coating, pre-treatment/cleaning, electroplating, anodic oxidation, film films, PVD and CVD, paint stripping, shotblasting, sandblasting, chemicals, raw materials, pigments, paints and coatings, measurement technologies, checks and laboratory tests, material handling, application plants, coating systems, IR/UV technology.

https://www.ipcm.it/en/index.aspx

IBB Netzwerk GmbH is a leading networking and service company specializing in industrial biotechnology and the sustainable economy. With a network of over 2,000 personal contacts, we act as a strategic catalyst for innovation, fostering synergies across Bavaria, Germany, and international borders.

Our goal is the efficient translation of scientific research into innovative products and industrial applications. As the official head of the Industrial Biotechnology Cluster, we serve as the central interface between industry, science, and politics, driving the transition toward a bio-based, sustainable future.

For more information, please visit our website

PCI is the paint and coatings industry’s most trusted independent source of news and information on the latest raw materials and equipment available in the industry. We also cover finished coatings and finishing equipment. This group is intended for paint and coatings suppliers and manufacturers around the world to interact with each other, share ideas, suggest story concepts to our editors, and generally discuss the latest happenings in the industry.

https://www.pcimag.com/

Pitture e Vernici European Coatings magazine is the bimonthly bilingual (italian and english) publication addressed to all technicians involved in the formulation of coatings, adhesives, sealants, printing inks, related products.

The magazine focuses on questions related to the use of raw materials such as additives, polymers and resins, solvents, dyes and pigments, extenders, plasticizers, chemical products, plants, machines and equipment.

https://www.pittureevernici.it/

NobleNet^SM is a specialist professional network for people in connected Science and Technology based industries including Energy, Resources, Chemicals, Materials, Biosciences, Food, Environmental, Manufacturing, Digital Technology and more. Please join us if you have interest in these sectors. Membership is free.

www.noblenet.co

FB Tech Review is the only one of its kind, knowledge platform that brings to its audience insider information from the food and beverage technology space. With our unique peer-to-peer learning approach, we connect elements from the different ends of the spectrum. We bring together senior decision-makers from leading organizations and their counterparts in their domains under one roof so that they can share their wisdom, knowledge and technological expertise among peers–accelerating the growth of the space.

Food and Beverages Tech Review

Chemical Industry Digest, published by Blockdale Media LLP, is a technical journal oriented towards engineers and decision makers in all chemical & process industries. Since 1987, Chemical Industry Digest has been a pioneer, in introducing first-hand industrial journalism, designed to inform and update practicing management and engineering professionals in all segments of the chemical process industries.

www.chemindigest.com

TEXTILE VALUE CHAIN™ has been a prominent Indian trade media platform since 2012, serving the Indian and worldwide textile, garment, fashion, and retail industries. TVC is a major player in the business, offering a monthly print magazine, an e-magazine, an e-newsletter, and an online worldwide information and sourcing platform.

www.textilevaluechain.in

Bio-Equip.com, established in 2006, aims to provide service for global researchers and international trading enterprises. Until August 2020, over 1,000 companies (both domestic and international) have registered as members, covering the fields of manufacturing, sales and distributing of instruments/reagents with over 100,000 product entries. T

https://www.bio-equip.cn/

World Construction Today is a global B2B business intelligence and media platform dedicated to the construction, infrastructure, and built-environment ecosystem. Established in 2012, the publication delivers executive-level insights that support strategic decision-making across international construction and infrastructure markets.

The platform serves senior decision-makers including developers, EPC contractors, project owners, infrastructure authorities, consultants, technology providers, and policy stakeholders involved in large-scale construction, transport, industrial, and urban development projects. World Construction Today operates at the intersection of engineering, technology, sustainability, and investment—providing structured intelligence for professionals navigating modernization, digital construction, and long-term infrastructure resilience.

https://www.worldconstructiontoday.com/

MacPlas (technical magazine for the plastics and rubber industry) is published bimonthly with the support of AMAPLAST (Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association), by the commercial company PROMAPLAST srl.

https://www.macplas.it/en

The Austrian Biomass Association represents the largest domestic energy resource, whose raw materials come from agriculture, forestry and the timber industry, as well as from municipal, commercial and industrial biogenic waste which cover the entire sector of energetic biomass use. The ABA stands for an efficient, resource-saving and sustainable use of biomass to provide heat, cold, electricity and fuel. The ABA demands a rapid energy transition with clear goals and ambitious measures to reduce energy consumption and to expand renewable, climate-friendly and regional energy sources in order to promote domestic jobs, technological development and exports to the maximum.

https://www.biomasseverband.at/

Fecc is the voice of the Chemical Distribution Industry in Europe. With a growing membership of companies and national associations, Fecc represents around 1,600 companies of which many are small and medium sized companies (SMEs). Fecc and its members contribute to innovation and sustainability besides adding value in the supply chain, by sourcing, developing, marketing, and distributing a wide range of specialty chemicals and ingredients to over one million downstream users ranging from automotive, electronics, paint, construction to pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and nutrition industries, each with their own specialised needs. The Chemical distribution industry in Europe employs more than 30,000 people and has an annual sales leverage of approximately €28 billion.

https://www.fecc.org/

Actualidad Marítima y Portuaria – Daily Offer of jobs into the maritime, port and logistics sectors News, Vessels, Companies, Ports, Customs, Events … Oferta diaria de empleos en los sectores marítimo-portuario y logístico Noticias, Buques, Empresas, Puertos, Aduanas, Eventos …

http://www.actualidadmp.com

ASDReports – Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis

Are you mastering your market? Do you know what the market potential is for your product, who the market players are and what the growth forecast is? We offer global, regional or country specific research studies for almost any market imaginable. Our market research reports consist of market analysis with statistical and analytical information, applications, industry analysis, market shares, technology and technology shifts, important players, and the developments in the market. At ASDReports.com, you will find all the globally available market research and company reports from well-respected market research companies, all leaders in their field. ASDReports is totally independent and serves its customers by providing the most reliable market research available, as we understand how important this is for you.

If you would like to be an official Media Partner for Biobased Coatings Europe please contact:

Dimitri Pavlyk

Tel: + 44 (0) 20 3141 0610

Email: [email protected]

If you would like to be considered as a speaker for the event with a 25-30 minute presentation, please submit an abstract for consideration to:

Marta Hoffmann

Tel: +48 616 467 039

Email: [email protected]

A day prior to Biobased Coatings Europe 2027 limited number of conference delegates will have the unique opportunity to visit Elementis Global Centre of Excellence and R&D Hub in Porto.

Elementis’ new site in Porto integrates a Global Centre of Excellence with a dedicated Research & Development laboratory, strengthening the company’s technical capabilities across Europe. The facility is designed to support both the Coatings and Personal Care business segments, while reinforcing Elementis’ global R&D network alongside existing laboratories in Asia and the Americas.

The site comprises advanced laboratory infrastructure, technical demonstration areas and collaborative spaces that enable hands-on formulation development, customer presentations and technical training. As a customer-facing showcase, the Porto facility allows Elementis to demonstrate innovation capabilities and translate technical expertise into practical, application-driven solutions for European markets.

Strategically located, the Porto site benefits from strong infrastructure, access to highly qualified multidisciplinary talent and an advantageous time zone to facilitate close collaboration with Elementis teams and customers across Europe and the Americas. The facility also supports structured collaboration with academic and research institutions, fostering innovation in sustainable and bio-based chemistry.

As a technical hub, the Porto centre plays a key role in supporting Elementis’ product development pipeline and its ambition to accelerate innovation and deliver a growing portfolio of sustainable, high-performance solutions.

www.elementis.com

We had an excellent response to Biobased Coatings Europe 2025 which took place in Madrid, Spain on 4th & 5th June 2025 with over 100 registered senior level attendees & many companies sending group delegations, including senior representatives from:

AITIIP | Aimplas | Altana | Arkema | ASD Media | BASF | BCH | Baril Coatings | Biorefinery Blog | Blackburn Chemicals | Boreal Bioproducts | Borregaard | Brenntag | Brightplus | Cefic | Cetec | CFF | CH-Polymers | Cin – Corporao Industrial Do Norte | Colonial Chemical | Corbion | Covestro | Delsci | Dunn Edwards | Durabilis Bio Solutions | Ecoat | Elementis | Evonik | F&L Asia | FECC | Funditec | GEA | GFBiochemicals | Gaiker | Galstaff Multiresine | General Paints | Godavari Biorefineries Ltd. | Grolman Group | HC Chemical | Haltermann Carless | Hempel | HOBUM Oleochemicals GmbH | Holoss | ICAP-SIRA Chemicals & Polymers | ILSI EUROPE | IMI FABI | IPCM Paint&Coating Magazine | Ingenieros Consultores Asociados, S.A. | Izpol | JRF Global | Kempro | Koninklijke Van Wijhe Verf B.V. | Lehmann & Voss | Leitat Technological Center | Lubrizol | Marabu | Micro Powders, Inc. | Nature Coatings | Nature Works | Novamont | Omya | Organik Kimya | PALEUS Acrylics | PITTURE E VERNICI | PPG | PrimientCovation LLC | Ravago Chemicals | Relement | Sabert | Sekab | Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe | SEQENS | Sherwin Williams | Stahl Europe | Synthomer | Tecnon OrbiChem | Vibrantz Technologies | Vinavil | Vink Chemicals | Wageningen University & Research | Westlake | Worlee Chemie | World Of Chemicals | Xampla and many more…

Highlights from Biobased Coatings Europe 2025:

At the event we strive not only to bring you to the same location at the same time as your customers/suppliers/peers, we strive to ensure you meet face-to-face with each and every one of your target contacts and to provide you with the time you need to have multiple unhurried conversations with them and build a lasting business relationship:

• A pre-event informal introduction the evening before the conference
• A minimum of five hours’ networking built into the two day conference agenda
• A networking grid which enables you to make your target contacts aware you are looking for them
• The option to join either social drinks or dinner during the evening of Day One
• ACI’s on-site team will assist you in locating your hard-to-find target contacts & make face-to-face introductions

Of course, if there is anybody you are unable to meet over the two days, ACI’s event team will do their best to initiate contact after the event.