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First European Detergents Conference Report

The First European Detergents Conference embedded in the 52 SEPAWA Congress took place in Werzburg from October 12 to 13, 2005. More than 1200 attendees came to this fine baroque city and were given value in 25 lectures in the field of Raw Materials for Detergents, Cleaners and Washing Aids, Basics of Detergency and Rheology as well as Product Safety, Hygienic Aspects and European Legislation, and Market Situation. Moreover, in the SEPAWA Sections on Cosmetics also some surfactant-related topics were presented. The complete program contained 40 lectures and an extensive poster exhibition. Keynote speaker was Professor H.-J. Bullinger, President of the Fraunhofer Society, Munich, who held an impressive lecture on “The Feat of Innovation – Perspectives of Future Markets and Work”. To initiate the European Detergents Conference the SEPAWA Congress was organised jointly with the Expert Group of Detergent Chemistry of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) for the first time. After the opening address of Dr. Lothar Rasthofer, First Presiding Chairman of the SEPAWA, Dr. D. Schermer, Presiding Chairman of the Expert Group Detergent Chemistry (GDCh), emphasised in a special welcoming address to the First European Detergents Conference (EDC) that the EDC brought to life for the first time is intended to bring together specialists from academia, public authorities and the industry as well as other interested groups on a more general European level.