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.

Technical Trainings / Q&A

Crisp comprehensive introductory presentations, trainings, and Q&A sessions tailored to your specific needs.

Tailored Workshops

Design and moderation of workshops to develop understanding of concrete requirements for products and portfolios and to ideate possible solutions.

Strategy Development

External expert input into your sustainability strategy, with support in identifying key patterns, and relevant legislative and market requirements.

Technology Assessment

External expert input into your sustainability strategy, with support in identifying key patterns, and relevant legislative and market requirements.

Recyclability Testing

Support in defining, executing, and documenting recyclability tests, based on deep expertise and involvement in the creation of testing standards.

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.

Creation of Technical Documents

Creation, review and editing of white papers, guidelines, academic publications, technical position papers and standards/norms.

Communication Support

Translation of complex technical subject matter into clear, accurate and credible messaging for product brochures, company presentations, announcements, websites and newsletters.

Our team

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

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

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

Selected Clients

A snapshot of organisations we work with.

Memberships

Emerging Motif is proud to be part of the following organisations.

Contact details

email: info@emergingmotif.com
Phone: +49 211 96291230