Chemistry and process industry

Your large and often complex production processes are relatively energy and feedstock intensive. Fluctuations in feedstock prices influence your competitive position while societal challenges need to be met in terms of sustainable processes and products. Process improvements, smart innovations or alternative feedstock are at the top of your agenda. Return on your investments, tapping into the best innovations in the market and keeping up-to-speed with the latest international policy developments are key to your success. Public funding can play an important role to combine these into a winning innovation strategy for your company.

Process intensification, nano- and picotechnology, quality management and improvement methodologies are important trends within your sector. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) furthermore plays an important role: you want to be considered an energy efficient and environmentally sound organization. The chemical industry is a key players in developing clean, high tech and innovative solutions for our future, and you want to be one of the leaders. Grants and other public funding are excellent instruments to realize these ambitions.

Grants and public funding are not just financial support for your organization but much more. They provide opportunities to structure innovation programmes on a national or European level together with key stakeholders, tap into the latest innovations and be a major stakeholder for future policy development in your sector. They are also provide a mechanism to actively implement your role as a responsible societal stakeholder.

How PNO can help you

At PNO, we can help you…Our network of chemical industry professionals works with leading industry players to help them realize their ambitions. Our clients are both producers of chemical semi-finished products (e.g. for the automotive and food industry) and producers of consumer products (e.g. detergents and cosmetics). We work with our clients all over Europe, including large multinationals, biotech companies, renowned Universities and Research Institutes, to develop innovation and public funding strategies.

We have a broad network in your sector amongst others through our strategic partnership with the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), our collaboration with the European and national Suschem platforms and our involvement in strategic innovation projects for your sector, such as the BIOCHEM project.

Our chemistry Team

PNO’s European chemistry team involves experts with complementary expertise in chemistry, bio-tech and energy technologies, innovation strategies, intellectual property, national and European grants and funding programmes as well as legal and policy domains. Find out who the experts are.

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