NMIMS Mumbai wins National finals of Henkel innovation challenge 2015

Team Dark Side to represent India at Henkel Innovation Challenge 8 Global Finals in Vienna, Austria

NMIMS, Mumbai is the India winner of Henkel’s international student competition – Henkel Innovation Challenge 8. The young team with its innovative idea “Nanobend” will represent India at the Henkel Innovation Challenge 8 global finals in Vienna, Austria from April 8th to April 10th, 2015.

The winning team presented their project “Nanobend”, which is a coating on the walls that eliminates air pollutants and provides a clean air at home. It is moisture absorbent and nutrient rich, facilitating growth of algae similar to vines. The algae would absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

The winning team, Dark Side, has outwitted the other semi finalists, who were from prominent colleges across India – NMIMS, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, IIFT, NITIE, Welingkar Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Management – Indore, Indian Institute of Technology – Kozhikode, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management to name a few.

The 10 teams were selected from a wide variety of disciplines across India where they had to develop a visionary product or a new technology for one of the three Henkel business sectors: Beauty Care, Laundry & Home Care or Adhesive Technologies. Throughout the competition, the teams are provided with extensive support from Henkel managers, who act as mentors, advising the participants on further developing their innovative concepts. This allows the young visionaries to gain priceless, wide-ranging business experience. The Jury members for this elite competition were Mr. Jeremy Hunter, President, Henkel Group – India, Mr. Dilip Chabria, Marketing Lead, team Indus and Mr. Raman, Director, SIBM.

At the event, Mr. Jeremy Hunter, President, Henkel Group India said, “We are overwhelmed by the response received from the students across India for our Henkel Innovation Challenge 8. Innovative ideas presented by the students have been setting a new standard and we had to take a tough call as the ideas presented were brilliant and well researched. At Henkel, through such events we constantly try to seek different avenues where students can participate and shore up to the upcoming challenges in their future.”

Excited about winning the National Finals, winning team of NMIMS said “We are thankful to Henkel for providing us with such a big platform to sharpen our skills and encourage us to develop our idea and compete with the best in India. Now our focus is to make India proud at the global level”.

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