BASF plays a leading role in the consortium and provides support across all workstreams, from technology to content.
The chemical industry, as a material supplier, plays an important role in the transition to a sustainable circular economy, and as a leading player in this industry, BASF is closely involved in this transition. By embracing advanced digitization and real-time data exchange across the entire supply chain, Chem-X will enable sustainable and value-creating circular economy models.
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions.
Focusing on the interoperability project part (TP4), Catena-X seeks to share insights on open-source developments as a scalable, interoperable foundation for future data spaces.
During the development phase of Catena-X, the association has gained deep insights into building data spaces. At Chem-X we want to share knowledge, enable interoperability of our common technology stacks and generate synergies to build a global network of networks.
Catena-X is the first end-to-end, collaborative and open data ecosystem for the automotive industry, connecting all players along the value chain. The Catena-X association acts a as neutral governance to enable standardized, interoperable and data-sovereign collaboration and drive innovation, increase efficiency and compliance across the entire data ecosystem. Catena-X is Gaia-X compliant and also serves as a model for all Manufacturing-X initiatives and is shaping the development of standardized data ecosystems in other industries.
We support the creation of standardised, secure and efficient data exchange solutions to enable sustainability and digital transformation in the chemical industry.
Cofinity-X is excited to help shape the future of a sustainable chemical industry. We believe that standardising and digitising data exchange is critical to driving circular economy models and ensuring the industry’s competitiveness in a rapidly evolving market.
Cofinity-X is a leading operator of dataspaces that enable secure and sovereign data exchange between participants. Our mission is to revolutionise collaboration and empower global industries through innovative solutions for sovereign data exchange.
Covestro supports all subprojects and working packages while investing most resources into the content chapter of the digital material passport of the chemical industry and its implementation, respectively. We provide a team of experts ranging from life cycle assessment over product stewardship to IT and business functions.
A harmonized and standardized approach in digital product information exchange will be key to empower industry and consumer in the green transition. For Covestro, Chem-X is an opportunity to limit effort and costs in sustainability data management along the value chain while generating guidelines and possible future standardization in sustainability and circularity information as well as in material declaration.
Covestro is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components. With its innovative products, processes and methods, the company helps enhance sustainability and the quality of life in many areas. Covestro supplies customers around the world in key industries such as mobility, building and living, as well as the electrical and electronics sector.
In Chem X, we add the “downstream” perspective in the value chain to the project: we create paints out of a variety of chemicals and minerals and pass them to professional painters or directly to the end consumer in the do-it-yourself market.
DAW is strongly engaged in sustainable product development. The automated and digitalized exchange of material and product information along the value chain is essential for the transformation to a sustainable society. Consequently, we support Chem-X because we believe that this project will be a motor to thrive sustainable solutions for our coating industry and the adjacent chemical and construction industry.
DAW SE is the largest private manufacturer of building paints and thermal insulation in Europe. As an owner-managed family business, we have been developing, producing, and distributing innovative coating systems for building envelopes, interiors, and industrial surfaces for five generations. Our brands such as Alpina and Caparol improve the performance of buildings and help people to live and work in healthier, more efficient, better designed and more sustainable buildings.
From Evonik point of view a key factor and area of support with Chem-X is, that the design and philosophy strongly supports interoperability and openness for all participants.
Participating in setting industry standards and shape the future business development utilizing established networks is of key importance for Evonik. Evonik has positive experience joining industry collaborations as they provide effective process solutions for our and our stakeholder businesses.
Evonik is a global leader in customer tailored solutions, dedicated to innovation and sustainability. The company focuses on providing high-performance products and solutions across various industries, including automotive, healthcare, and agriculture, fueling the circular economy.
With its contribution to Chem-X, Henkel will build on its past and ongoing contributions to Catena-X and CX-Next, aiming to expand this work in two directions: upstream chemical supply chains with Chem-X consortium partners and downstream industries beyond automotive. Henkel’s contribution spans all work packages; from Standardization of key sustainability and safety metrics to a functional solution (pilots) for data exchange via DMP/DPP for chemical substances. A compelling outcome is to ensure that this DPP model is interoperable. This final work item also includes the transition from concepts to implementation and the development of an MVP to test the practicality of the previous work packages.
As a market leader in adhesives, sealants, coatings and consumer products, we understand the need to address environmental and safety issues. However, there is currently a lack of easily accessible and comprehensive sustainability and safety data particularly within chemical value chains, due to their inherent complexity. Overcoming these challenges with the Chem-X partners will help to improve transparency and data quality in sustainability, circularity, and safety, enabling data informed decisions across the value chain. Our motivation is reflected in our commitment: “We aim to simplify data sharing across the value chain and prepare Henkel for the future with Digital Product Passports”.
With its brands, innovations and technologies, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, holds leading market position worldwide in the industrial and consumer businesses. The business unit Adhesive Technologies is the global market leader for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, while the Consumer Brands business holds leading positions especially in laundry & home care. Sustainability has a long tradition at Henkel, and the company has a clear sustainability strategy with specific targets. Henkel was founded in 1876 and today employs a diverse team of about 48,000 people worldwide – united by a strong corporate culture, shared values and a common purpose: “Pioneers at heart for the good of generations.
Already today, we are offering cyber-physical trust solutions with M-Trust™ for enhanced value chain integrity and will incorporate this expertise in the project.
Merck supports subprojects 2, 3, 4 and 5
We see Chem-X as having the potential to drive digital transformation in the chemical industry and to enhance its resilience, sustainability, and economic competitiveness. As a leading science and technology company, we at Merck can and want to make a positive contribution to this with our extensive expertise.
Merck is a vibrant science and technology company that uniquely combines three specialized, innovation-driven businesses: Life Science, Healthcare, and Electronics. About 63,000 employees in 65 countries are passionate to address some of today’s toughest challenges. Together as one team, Merck is dedicated to Sparking Discovery, Elevating Humanity for a brighter, more sustainable future. This is our promise to millions of customers, patients, and communities worldwide.
SAP unites business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
SAP wants to show how the data relevant for a Digital Material Passport / Digital Product Passport in the Chemical Industry can be derived either from existing business applications or from other supply chain partners via the Chem-X dataspace. Furthermore, SAP wants to support the verification of business partner identities, material identities and the DMP/DPP itself. SAP brings in its experiences from Catena-X and other Manufacturing-X initiatives.
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
Siemens is contributing to the workstreams Material ID& Data Chain, Material Declaration Metrics, Specification of Technical Requirements, Template Design of DPPs, Start-up / SME Tech Ecosystem / Accelerator as well as Demonstrators and leads the workstream on Verification Methods.
Chem-X is an important building block for a circular economy: an open, standardized data ecosystem holds the key to connecting all stakeholders across the value chain. By participating in Chem-X, we want to boost sustainability and efficiency through digitalization and the diverse backgrounds of the consortium partners, benefitting the chemical industry as well as all downstream industries.
Siemens AG is a leading technology company focusing on the fields of industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s mission is to develop technology that improves everyday life for everyone. By connecting the real world with the digital world, it enables customers to accelerate their digital and sustainable transformation. This makes factories more efficient, cities more liveable and transport more sustainable.
Sika is a specialty chemicals partner of Chem-X.
Spherity contributes to Chem-X by developing enterprise identity wallets that ensure secure and interoperable digital identities for stakeholders and designing Digital Product Passports to enable reliable, automated data exchange across the chemical and material supply chain.
Spherity is participating in Chem-X to advance sustainability and digital transformation in the chemical industry. We aim to align the project with European digital identity (EUDI) standards and enable transparent and standardized data exchange based on our expertise in digital identities, credential systems, and data space architectures.
Spherity, a global pioneer in digital identity software, revolutionizes secure identity integration for enterprises, machines, products, data, and algorithms. Leveraging self-sovereign identity (SSI), Spherity streamlines compliance with regulations on data protection and security. The company offers products tailored for supply chains and financial services, including an eIDAS 2.0-compliant enterprise wallet, authentication and authorization for the US pharmaceutical supply chain, and the Digital Product Passport solution mandated by the European Commission.
TfS supports Chem-X primarily in defining sustainability and circularity metrics, by developing harmonised guidelines and contributing to the information models for these metrics.
Committed to create transparency and advance sustainability in chemical supply chains, TfS is participating in Chem-X to proactively shape industry standards for sustainability data and to avoid inefficiencies caused by unharmonised data requests. TfS aims to contribute to the development of digital product passports aligned with regulatory requirements and sustainability goals.
With over 50 member companies, Together for Sustainability (TfS) is a global, procurement-driven initiative created by chemical companies with the goal of assessing, auditing and improving the sustainability practices within their global supply chains. The programme is based on the UN Global Compact and Responsible Care® principles.
WACKER knows what it takes to be competitive in facts of customers, society, and the environment. WACKER has leading expertise in working on sustainability and specialty chemicals topics. For years, WACKER is involved in various TfS project/workstreams on digitalization, sustainability topics and the harmonization of standards. Our experts will participate in each of the Chem-X TPs and look forward to working with the other partners to create a better sustainable future.
We support such a shared and open data ecosystem as it will strengthen the chemical industry as a whole by achieving more resilient supply chains and building the basis for more sustainable products. We believe in the strength of common standards to be faster and more flexible in future.
WACKER is a global company with state-of-the-art specialty chemical products found in countless everyday items, ranging from tile adhesives to computer chips. The company has a global network of 27 production sites, 22 technical competence centers and 48 sales offices. With around 16,400 employees, WACKER generated annual sales of around €6.4 billion in fiscal 2023. WACKER operates through four business divisions. The chemical divisions WACKER SILICONES and WACKER POLYMERS supply products (silicones, polymeric binders) for the automotive, construction, chemical, consumer goods and medical technology industries. WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS, the life sciences division, specializes in bioengineered products such as biopharmaceuticals and food additives. WACKER POLYSILICON produces hyperpure polysilicon for the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries.
