Navigating Complexity,
Enabling Sustainability
Sustainability, circular economy, and product safety are complex, highly technical, and multi-dimensional topics that are key parts 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 consumer goods industry, we help you succeed in your sustainability journey through a deep understanding of the science and technology involved, by finding actionable strategies, and by 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 sustainability, circularity and recycling, product safety and chemicals regulations.
Our Services
We support you at every stage of your sustainability journey — from building a foundational understanding to developing effective strategies, technology assessment, and creating impactful communication.
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Technical Trainings / Q&A
Crisp 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 understanding of concrete requirements for products and portfolios and to ideate possible solutions.
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Strategy Development
External expert input into 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 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 deep expertise 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 comprehensive technical trainings on sustainability, circularity, product safety and relevant regulations.
Designed for sustainability, R&D, innovation, and regulatory affairs professionals. Dedicated seminars are also 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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Legislation Navigation 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, as well as 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
Graduated from University Putra Malaysia in Applied Linguistics and English Language Studies, with several publications in the areas of pragmatics and language comprehension
Extensive research experience in academia, enabling the provision of comprehensive research background, literature reviews, and professional evaluation of the flow, format, and language precision of deliverables and publications, ensuring high-quality work