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Sustainability is the language of the future Sustainability is the language of the future. So, if your business wants to gain a competitive advantage, it must enrol in the school of the circular economy. This was the key message of Richard Haldaimann’s presentation at CIEX 2020. The circular economy stands on three principles: reduce, reuse, […]

Digital innovation is a core topic of CIEX 2021. Having impressed us and the audience during our start-up panel at CIE X2019, we asked Anita Schjøll Brede CEO & Co-Founder of IRIS.AI back to talk about digital innovation and machine learning at CIEX 2021. While preparing for the conference, we sat down with Anita to […]

Having been at every single CIEX event since our launch five years ago, Dr. Daniel Witthaut, Head of Corporate Innovation Strategy at Evonik is certainly one of our strongest supporter and a much valued speaker. So we were excited to catch up with him ahead of his presentation this October in Frankfurt as part of […]

At the upcoming CIEX 2020 Virtual conference on 7th – 8th October, Richard Haldimann Head of Sustainability Transformation at CLARIANT will discuss innovation driven by circular economy in his presentation “Gaining competitive advantage with the circular economy – Sustainability transformation at Clariant’’ We have spoken to Richard about his topic of choice and his motivation for joining CIEX […]

We are only a few weeks away from the CIEX 2020 VIRTUAL and we have recently  interviewed one of the key speakers Markus Solibieda Managing Director at BASF VENTURE CAPITAL about the highlights of his session on boosting innovation by collaboration with START-UPS and the main challenges. Question #1: Without giving too much away –what […]

CIEX 2020 VIRTUAL conference is just around the corner and as part of our pre-conference interviews we recently spoke with Pascal Chalvon, Chief Sustainability & Energy Officer at SOLVAY about the highlights of his session on translating sustainability into daily business and the main challenges. Question #1: Without giving too much away – what is […]

CIEX 2020 VIRTUAL conference is just around the corner and as part of our pre-conference interviews we recently spoke with Dr. Christian Hartel, Member of the Executive Board at WACKER about the highlights of his session on Green Deal dilemmas and the main challenges. Question #1: Without giving too much away – what is the […]

In the run-up to the CIEX 2020 conference, we had an opportunity to catch up with Pierre Joris, President at A.SPIRE who will reveal A. SPIRE’s perspective on achieving sustainability by cross-industry collaboration. We had a few questions for him related to his session, to warm up a bit for the event. Question #1: Without giving […]

In the run-up to the CIEX 2019 conference, we caught up with Dr. Martin Vollmer, CTO at Clariant who will be revealing his secrets of driving efficiency and innovation in the chemical industry on October 9 in Frankfurt. We had a few questions for him related to his session, to warm up a bit for […]

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) expected approximately 25 000 unique substance covered by 60 000 registrations to be submitted by the last REACH registration deadline at the end of May this year. However, this estimate was not reached as only half of the expected number of registrations were received by the deadline. This has raised […]