Faraday Packaging Partnership offer a range of services, benefits, opportunities and research-derived knowledge to support the development of packaging and consumer products. Their core services include: delivering a programme of understanding workshops and a portfolio of collaborative R&D projects; creating successful packaging designs using radical new techniques; providing free access to materials related news, events and courses, reports and publications; providing new ideas, insights and future opportunities to challenge you to create enhanced consumer products and packaging.  As well as promoting opportunities for the whole packaging community.

Tannpapier is a member of the TRIERENBERG Holding AG, an Austrian company, and a global player in its core competence area of developing, producing and distributing printed specialties. The portfolio covers papers for the cigarette industry, self adhesive tear tapes, soft packs, innerliner and labels.  Production sites are located in Europe, Asia, South America and Canada with about 1300 employees.

MacDermid was founded in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1922 by a Scottish immigrant named Archie J. MacDermid. In the 60's and 70's, MacDermid expanded from its metal finishing roots into plating on plastics and electronics, and also expanded globally into Europe and Asia.   Beginning in the mid-80’s MacDermid invested in a number of acquisitions increasing its reach into the current business segments and expanding into new markets such as graphic arts.

MacDermid, Incorporated is in the international business of researching, developing, acquiring,  manufacturing, marketing, and servicing specialty chemicals and systems for the metal and plastic finishing, electronics, graphic arts and offshore oil industries – in accordance with accepted ecologic and social considerations.

Grupo Temper is a holding company specialised in manufacturing, assessment and the commercial distribution of professional and household products for electrical and telecommunications installations. Temper’s range of products covers everything from process and interface automation components to DIY products and company-manufactured household electrical appliances.

microTEC was founded in 1996. The company supplies customized production services for companies working in biotechnology, genetics, medicine and medical supplies, and optics. They use a proprietary RMPD® technology makes the creation and production of micro components and micro systems simple and efficient. They also offer economical solutions for short production runs and RP, since market success depends on timing as much as on application-oriented product design and fast turnaround times during testing.

The Grupo BUK, is a group of companies that specialises in providing innovative quality solutions in the interior decoration and furniture sector. Established in 1975, Bricobuk can boast of extensive experience in the following areas: Design, manufacturing and fitting of built-in wardrobes and customised furnishing for the home; sale and installation of kitchen fi ttings; manufacturing of CORIAN® worktops; design and installation of customised solutions for industrial clients; design and installation of decoration projects, such as hotels.

Royal Philips Electronics is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest. It is a global leader in Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology based product and service solutions. Philips Design has its headquarters in Eindhoven and is a separate field of business inside Philips. An interdisciplinary team of about 450 experts is working on functionality, usability, ergonomics and aesthetic aspects. The Philips design site in Amsterdam is contributing to Syntex as member of the business interest group.

Visual Recognition is a company that has been established to commercially exploit promising research from the ISLA Laboratory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Visual Recognition can also provide scientific consulting on a host of topics in the field of object recognition and general computer vision with an emphasis on colour.

RetailBranding is an Austrian consulting company that helps the retail industry to design products and shops. They perform operational research that focuses on consumer behavior and commercial trends. Their efforts are based on developmental and basic groundwork that has lead to the concepts of Storebranding, Mallbranding, the Less-Is-More Philosophy, and in particular, Neural Marketing.