Dr. H. Lothar Möhle, Dr. Edison Diaz, Dr. Anneliese Wilsch-Irrgang,
The 66th SEPAWA Congress took place
together with the 15th European Detergents
Conference (EDC) at the Estrel
Congress Center in Berlin.
It is widely known: the SEPAWA Congress
together with the EDC is the most important
meeting place for the detergent/
cleaning product, cosmetic, and perfume
industries in Europe. Berlin has become
an established convention site. The wide
acceptance is made clear alone by the fact
that around 3300 congress and exhibition
visitors were registered during these
three days. At the same time, participants
from more than 60 countries attest to the
increasingly international significance of
the event. The number of companies increased
to 310. These figures show that
both the number of persons attending
and the number of exhibitors were new
records.
The content-related excellence of the
congress is also important for acceptance.
Thus, within the scope of the
European Detergents Conference, conceptualized
by the Division of Detergent
Chemistry of the German Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) eight highly
scientific talks were given on the ‘Smart
Approaches for Detergents in a Fast
Changing World’. During the SEPAWA
scientific conference, which dealt with
the latest research results of relevance for
the detergent/cleaning product, cosmetic
and perfume industries, including regulatory
framework conditions, 32 talks were
presented. A permanent part of the congress
program is the series of presentation
blocks in the forum for innovation.
This year there were 69 talks, due to the
increasing demand also in parallel sessions,
offering the opportunity to present
the most recent results of their developments.
A total of 43 poster presentations
submitted by next-generation scientists
from universities and academic institutions
together with industrial researchers
and institutional bodies of our industries.
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