Navigating Complexity,
Enabling Sustainability
Sustainability, the circular economy, and product safety are complex, highly technical, and multi-dimensional topics that are a key part of today’s industrial landscape. Business success requires an understanding of these requirements, a clear strategic direction, and impactful communication.
At Emerging Motif, we help clients to identify the key motifs — clear patterns that drive change in industry — and turn them into concrete and actionable strategies.
If you are a producer, industry association, or value chain initiative in the chemical sector or in consumer goods industry, we help you succeed in your sustainability journey through a deep understanding the science and technology involved, by finding actionable strategies, and communicating with clarity and impact.
Industries We Support
Emerging Motif supports the chemical industry and its downstream sectors, including plastics, packaging, adhesives, coatings, inks, sealants, elastomers, as well as the consumer goods industry, with deep technical expertise.
Focus areas
Emerging Motif is specialised in the topics of sustainability, circularity and recycling, product safety and chemicals regulations.
Our Services
We support you in every stage of your sustainability journey — from a foundational understanding to effective strategy, technology assessment, and impactful communication.
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Technical Trainings / Q&A
Crisp and comprehensive introductory presentations, trainings, and Q&A sessions tailored to your specific needs.
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Tailored Workshops
Design and moderation of workshops to develop the understanding of concrete requirements for products and portfolios and to ideate possible solutions.
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Strategy Development
External expert input to your sustainability strategy, with support in identifying key patterns, and relevant legislative and market requirements.
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Technology Assessment
Evaluation of the technical and financial viability of new technologies and new materials based on scientific expertise, industry knowledge and regulatory insights.
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Recyclability Testing
Support in defining, executing, and documenting recyclability tests, based on acquired deep knowledge and involvement in the creation of testing standards.
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Expert Group Facilitation
Impactful facilitation and steering of multi-stakeholder groups in the creation of guidelines, positions and standards — ensuring strong deliverables without technical gaps or avoidable ambiguities.
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Creation of Technical Documents
Creation, review and editing of white papers, guidelines, academic publications, technical position papers and standards/norms.
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Communication Support
Translation of complex technical subject matter into clear, accurate and credible messaging for product brochures, company presentations, announcements, websites and newsletters.
Online Seminars & Reports
Stay ahead of technical and regulatory developments based on our expert insights.
Available from Q4/2025
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Technical Online Seminars
A year-round series of crisp and comprehensive technical trainings on sustainability, circularity and product safety and on regulations of relevance.
Designed for sustainability, R&D, innovation and regulatory affairs professionals. Dedicated seminars available for newcomers to the topics of circularity, recycling and product safety.
Includes live Q&A and downloadable presentation slides after the seminar.
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Regulatory Insights Reports
Clearly structured reports on key EU legislation, including emerging legislation, with timelines, direct links to the text of key sections and links to national legislation and CEN standardisation.
Designed for experts from sustainability, R&D, and regulatory affairs departments and decision makers in business unit management and strategy.
Includes free updates for 12 months after purchase as legislation develops.
Our team
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Dr. Dennis Bankmann
Managing partner
More than 15 years of experience in the chemical industry
Extensive collaboration history with leading industry initiatives, associations, universities, institutes, test laboratories, and standardization bodies
Long record of conference presentations, industry event speeches, and technical trainings
(Co)authorship of numerous white papers, guidelines, and academic papers
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Talayeh Jalali
Managing partner
More than 10 years of experience in the chemical industry
Extensive experience across roles such as R&D, business development and marketing strategy
Broad experience in several sectors such as paints and coatings, adhesives, and resins
Expertise in sustainable innovation and go-to-market strategies in the plastics and coatings sector
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Sima Sadatmir, Ph.D
Research Analyst
Graduate from University Putra Malaysia in Applied Linguistics and English Language Studies
Several publications in the areas of pragmatics and language comprehension
Brings a keen eye for analyzing deliverable documents for language precision, ensuring high-quality work