Berger Paints Nigeria Open Innovation Challenge Information Session and Q&A
Join us to find out more about the Berger Paints Open Innovation Challenge: Recycling Plastic to Resin for Paint Production.
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Overview
The goal of Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa’s Open Innovation intervention is to help African companies find innovative solutions to technical problems that their traditional supply chains cannot solve. We do this by promoting cross-sectoral innovation transfer from organisations beyond their usual supply chains. Using our bespoke platform, we run Open Innovation Challenges to match real industry problems for large businesses with innovative companies or academic institutions who can provide novel, market ready solutions to those problems.
About the event
Berger Paints Nigeria Plc (BPN) is seeking innovative solutions for recycling waste plastic into resin for paint production in Nigeria. Resin forms an essential matrix to hold pigment, additives and other paint components, and typically comprises 10-25% of paint volume. Berger has identified an opportunity to explore alternative sources of polymer which also have environmental benefits of converting waste to wealth. BPN desires two separate solutions, one for water-based and another for solvent-based resins for paint production.
Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to pitch their solution to Berger Paints Nigeria. The winning applicant, as selected by Berger Paints Nigeria will get the opportunity to collaborate with them on a trial project. Up to GBP 25,000 seed funding is available (subject to T&Cs) to the successful finalist/s for this collaboration.
Related Opportunities
Open Innovation challenge: Recycling Plastic to Resin for Paint Production
Opens: 01/10/2024 Closes: 29/11/2024
The Open Innovation programme is supporting Berger Paints Nigeria Plc to find innovative solutions for recycling waste plastic into resin for paint production.
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Related programmes
Global Alliance Africa
This Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa 6-year (2019-2025) project funded by UK International Development aims to build new and stronger UK-African partnerships to maximise the creation of inclusive market access, funding and investment opportunities through innovation knowledge transfer between the UK, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
Open Innovation
Open Innovation is the belief that good ideas can come from anywhere, so it is worth looking widely, beyond your usual supply chains. Innovate UK has well-established methods for supporting Open Innovation, having run 200+ innovation challenges across the world. Our model allows diverse collaborators to respond to shared industry challenges in a mutually beneficial way.