The company will showcase innovative ingredient technologies, formulation expertise, and sustainable cleaning solutions that balance performance, consumer expectations, and environmental considerations across home care and industrial cleaning applications.

Sepawa Congress 2026

October 15-17, 2026
Berlin, Germany – Estrel Congress Center
Stand D546-548

What’s new at Sepawa Congress 2026?

Attendees are invited to connect with Univar Solutions experts throughout SEPAWA Congress to explore emerging trends, discuss formulation challenges, and discover innovative ingredient solutions designed to support the future of home care, industrial cleaning, and personal care across EMEA.

Featured highlights at the show include:

• Performance with Purpose™, a concept demonstrating how formulators can balance cleaning performance, responsible innovation, and changing market expectations.
• Expanded access to Dow home care technologies in EMEA, following the recent distribution agreement expansion in North America, providing customers with a broader portfolio of ingredients for laundry care, dishwashing, hand soaps, and surface cleaning applications. We also sell surfactants in EMEA.
• Sustainable ingredient solutions that support evolving regulatory requirements and customer sustainability goals, including bio-based and biodegradable technologies.
• Technical formulation expertise from our Global Solution Centers, including the Essen, Germany laboratory, which supports innovation and application development across the region.
• Home care and industrial cleaning formulation concepts designed to showcase ingredient performance, product differentiation, and consumer-focused innovation.
• Personal care solutions and market insights for skin care, hair care, sun care, and color cosmetics applications, helping brands respond to emerging trends and consumer preferences.

Ingredients and innovation for the future of cleaning

Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions helps customers navigate the evolving cleaning landscape through a combination of leading ingredient technologies, technical expertise, market insight, and supply chain solutions. Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), we partner with global customers and suppliers to develop home care and industrial cleaning products that address changing regulatory requirements, sustainability objectives, and performance expectations.

We also help formulators balance cleaning efficacy, responsible innovation, and evolving consumer demands. Backed by a premier portfolio of specialty ingredients, including surfactants, chelates, silicones, enzymes, microbial technologies, and bio-based alternatives, our technical teams provide formulation support and market expertise to accelerate product development and optimization.

From regulatory support and labeling requirements to advancing sustainability goals, Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions delivers tailored solutions that help streamline production, optimize formulations, strengthen supply chain resilience, and support compliance without compromising performance.

Sepawa Congress

Sepawa Congress is a major European annual meeting and trade event for the detergent, cosmetics, and perfumery industries. It brings together professionals, researchers, and companies in home care, Personal Care, Cosmetics, Fragrances, and Packaging.

Performance with Purpose

At SEPAWA Congress 2026, Univar Solutions will demonstrate how its Performance with Purpose™ concept helps bridge the gap between cleaning efficacy, formulation innovation, and responsible product development. From household cleaning products and dishwashing formulations to industrial and institutional cleaning solutions, the company supports customers throughout the product development journey.

As demand increases for solutions that deliver reliable performance while supporting broader sustainability objectives, formulators face growing pressure to balance effectiveness, environmental considerations, consumer preferences, and supply chain resilience. Univar Solutions helps customers meet these challenges through technical collaboration, market intelligence, and a broad portfolio of specialty ingredients and technologies.

Performance with Purpose™ reflects how the cleaning industry continues to evolve, driven by changing consumer expectations, regulatory developments, and growing interest in responsible innovation. The concept highlights how formulators can create products that deliver strong cleaning performance while supporting broader goals related to resource efficiency, ingredient selection, and product stewardship.

Performance with Purpose™ focuses on:

• Formulation strategies that balance cleaning efficacy and sustainability considerations
• Technologies that help improve product performance across a range of cleaning applications
• Solutions designed to support changing regulatory and market expectations
• Innovation that helps brands address evolving consumer and customer needs
• Collaboration between suppliers, formulators, and distribution partners to accelerate
  development

Personal care industry knowledge

Beyond cleaning applications, Univar Solutions also supports personal care formulators across EMEA with innovative ingredients, technical expertise, and market insights for skin care, hair care, color cosmetics, and sun care applications. Through close collaboration with leading supplier partners, we help brands develop products that align with evolving consumer preferences for efficacy, sensory appeal, and responsible formulation, while accelerating innovation from concept to commercialization.

Our beauty and personal care team will be around to discuss:• Skin care

• Hair care
• Sun care
• Color cosmetics
• Natural and biotech ingredients
• Sensory-driven formulation trends

Home care: Supporting performance across household cleaning applications

Consumers continue to seek products that deliver effective cleaning while aligning with changing lifestyle and environmental preferences. Univar Solutions supports customers with solutions for:

• Laundry care
• Hand dishwashing
• Automatic dishwashing
• Hard surface cleaning
• Bathroom and kitchen cleaners
• Fabric care
• Air care applications

Working with leading supplier partners, Univar Solutions provides access to surfactants, polymers, rheology modifiers, solvents, specialty additives, enzymes, and fragrance technologies that help formulators create differentiated products for today’s market. Featured supplier technologies include solutions from partners such as Dow and other industry-leading innovators that help improve foam control, soil removal, fragrance retention, stability, and overall formulation performance.

Industrial cleaning: Solutions for demanding professional cleaning environments

Industrial and institutional cleaning applications require reliable performance across diverse operating environments. Ingredients + Specialties Univar Solutions supports manufacturers serving sectors such as:

• Food and beverage processing
• Hospitality
• Healthcare
• Facility maintenance
• Transportation
• Manufacturing
• Institutional cleaning

Our portfolio includes technologies designed to support cleaning efficiency, operational performance, and evolving sustainability initiatives while helping customers navigate complex regulatory environments.

By combining technical expertise with local market knowledge and a global supplier network, Univar Solutions helps customers identify solutions tailored to specific application requirements.

Performance with Purpose: Pet care innovations

There has been increased interest in cleaning solutions designed specifically for pet-friendly homes, particularly products that can tackle odors, stains, and other everyday pet messes while also supporting sustainability goals. To address those needs, Ingredients + Specialties from
Univar Solutions recently launched our Performance with Purpose: Pet Care campaign, which includes a collection of pet care cleaning formulations for applications such as odor control, hard-surface cleaning, soft-surface cleaning, and laundry care. The formulations highlight how biological and enzyme-based technologies are being used to solve some of the most common challenges that pet owners face.

These formulations are available in North America, but can be sourced for EMEA.

Global Solutions Centers: Technical expertise that helps accelerate innovation

Successful cleaning products require more than high-quality ingredients. They demand formulation expertise, testing capabilities, and technical collaboration. Our global Solution Centers provide customers with access to experienced technical teams who help evaluate
formulations, troubleshoot challenges, benchmark performance, and accelerate product development.

Capabilities include:

• Formula optimization
• Performance benchmarking
• Ingredient evaluation
• Stability testing
• Technical troubleshooting
• Prototype development
• Regulatory and market guidance

Our EMEA technical teams work closely with customers to bring innovative concepts from idea to commercialization, and our Essen, Germany lab is a hub for the EMEA region to formulate new concepts.

Strengthening supply chain resilience

In today’s marketplace, ingredient access and supply assurance are critical components of product success. Univar Solutions combines a broad specialty ingredient portfolio with local warehousing, logistics capabilities, regulatory expertise, and technical support throughout EMEA. This integrated approach helps customers improve operational efficiency while maintaining confidence in their supply chain strategies.

Across EMEA, formulators continue adapting to evolving regulatory frameworks, sustainability expectations, and consumer demand for high-performing products. Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions combines regional market knowledge with a global network of supplier
relationships and technical resources to help customers navigate these challenges.

Sustainable homecare and industrial cleaning ingredient solutions

The landscape of the homecare and industrial cleaning ingredients market is constantly evolving. Brands and manufacturers increasingly prioritize green chemistry for homecare products and efficacy in production choices while assessing supply chain capabilities with their distribution partners. This shift towards sustainable ingredients is driven by growing consumer awareness and demand for environmentally friendly homecare and industrial cleaning products. Learn more about our sustainable solutions for the cleaning industry.

Recent Home Care & Industrial Cleaning News

• Univar Solutions Expands Homecare and Industrial Cleaning Portfolio Through New Distribution Agreement with Dow in EMEA
• Dow and Univar Solutions Sign Long-term Agreement to Distribute Low-Carbon Solutions
• Univar Solutions Expands Ingredient Portfolio with Exclusive Glycolic Acid Distribution Agreement in EMES
•  Univar Solutions and Italmatch Chemicals Partner to Provide DEQUEST® PB Eco-Friendly Antiscalants/Dispersants for Manufacturers Seeking Sustainable and Biodegradable Cleaning Solutions

About Univar Solutions

Univar Solutions is a leading global specialty chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world’s leading producers. With one of the industry’s largest private transportation fleets and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together.

About Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions

Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions brings the best products, people, and results to specialty customers and suppliers seeking to power modern life. By combining science, innovation, and deep expertise with a leading specialty portfolio, we help find the solutions
needed to safely improve lives and communities around the globe.