- August, 2023
Axcentive has accepted a position on the External Advisory Board (EAB) in the Horizon 2020 Project: BIO-SUSHY.
The BIO-SUSHY project aims to develop innovative coating solutions that meet the EU’s chemical strategy for sustainability by creating safe and durable water and oil-repellent coatings.
Effective water and oil-repellent coatings today are almost solely fluorine based.
Fluorine based coating raw materials have been scrutinized due to their persistence, i.e., they are difficult to breakdown by nature and toxicity. Recently, Europe ECHA has announced its proposal to ban certain fluorine based compounds, also called forever chemicals, from 2027 on forward. USA and China governing bodies move in similar ways.
The BIO-SUSHY development project is planned over 4 years in which the research on viable F-free alternatives is supported by lab work, the use of computational modelling, toxicity assessment and SSbD (safe and sustainable by design) methodology.
Arno Schut, Innovation Manager at Axcentive is excited about the project: “Axcentive has been active in the market for water and oil-repellents with products free of the targeted fluorine chemicals. Hence, we are in a good position to advise on research directions and especially to find further improvements in current technology.”
Part of the BIO-SUSHY project is Materia Nova ASBL research institute, strategic partner of Axcentive in sol-gel and related technologies.
