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Alfa Kimya A.Ş. is a Türkiye-based manufacturer of alkyd and acrylic resin systems for coating applications in the building, industrial, transport, and other demanding sectors. The company combines in-house R&D capabilities with pilot-scale and industrial manufacturing facilities, enabling the development, validation, and scale-up of innovative resin and coating technologies from laboratory to industrial production. Alfa Kimya’s expertise covers polymer synthesis, resin modification, formulation development, performance evaluation, and industrial scale-up. The company is actively developing more sustainable coating solutions, including bio-based, high-solid, low-VOC, water-based, and environmentally safer material systems, with a focus on reducing environmental impacts while maintaining durability and functional performance. The company is particularly interested in collaborative R&D activities addressing sustainable materials, safer-by-design approaches, reduction of hazardous substances, PFAS-free and low-migration coating technologies, circularity, resource efficiency, and the environmental performance of industrial products and processes. Alfa Kimya is also interested in applications where sustainable coating technologies can contribute to ecosystem protection, pollution prevention, and the green transition of industrial value chains. With its combination of industrial production capacity, applied R&D expertise, and pilot-to-industrial scale-up capability, Alfa Kimya can contribute as an industrial partner, technology developer, demonstration partner, and validation partner in Horizon Europe projects. Alfa Kimya is seeking international collaborations within Horizon Europe, particularly projects connecting sustainable industrial transformation, advanced and bio-based materials, safer chemical solutions, biodiversity protection, ecosystem resilience, and circular economy approaches.