The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem)

The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem), brings together a wide spectrum of organisations and individuals looking to boost sustainable chemistry, industrial biotechnology and chemical engineering research, development and innovation in Europe. As part of this goal, SusChem is working to build a supportive environment in Europe for innovation and research in partnership with society.

The technologies and activities covered by SusChem are an important contribution to future sustainable development initiatives and are critical to continuing and increasing competitiveness of European enterprises across all sectors.

Suschem was founded in 2004 by six European bodies representing the main stakeholders from academia and industry in the sector with financial and consultative support from the European Commission.

The six founding partners were:

• Cefic;
• DECHEMA e.V. - Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology;
• ESAB - European Federation of Biotechnology Section of Applied Biocatalysis;
• EuropaBio  - the European Association for Bioindustries;
• GDCh - the German Chemical Society;
• RSC - Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Suschem secretariat is based at Cefic.