PERFECOAT 24 Months Project Meeting in Essen (Germany)

17-19 April 2023 in Essen, Germany
PERFECOAT project team in April 2023 outside of a concrete building

The PERFECOAT team gathered for a 3-days meeting in Essen, Germany.

The consortium enjoyed a very fruitful and intense project and general assembly meeting. We discussed the most promising paths towards our bio-based paint and coating ingredients. Especially the development of binders shows various promising paths like alginate and POSS. Other ingredients have turned out to be more challenging.

Still, the project is already able to celebrate success stories like the innovative fungal red pigments developed by Chromologics.

Besides a workshop on binder design at the Remmers facility, the partners also had the opportunity to see how their ingredients perform in formulations and how the final paint and coating applications are tested.

Thanks to our project partners Evonik and Remmers for hosting the meeting and sharing the lab experience!

Chromologics Fungus Alternative to Carmine and Red 40 Food Colorings, different shades of red in cuvettes

Chromologics red fungal pigment

Lab environment, two women looking at a white coloured sheet, wearing white lab coats and lab goggles, two men in the background looking at the same sheet
Abrasion testing at Evonik
Woman holding a red card and explaining something, differently coloured cards in the background pinned to a blue board
Workshop at Remmers