A Dutch SME produces ecological brushkeepers for paintbrushes and is looking for commercial agreements with distributors and wholesalers in the paint sector that serve sustainable products

Summary

Profile Type

Business Offer

POD Reference

BONL20250328020

Term of Validity

28 March 2025 - 28 March 2026

Company's Country

Netherlands

Type of partnership

Commercial agreement

Targeted Countries

Norway
France
Germany
Sweden
Italy
United Kingdom
Belgium
Poland
Finland
Spain
Denmark

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General information

Short Summary

A Dutch SME is producing ecological brushkeepers and paintbrushes. The brushkeeper protects a brush from drying out and damage. The brushkeeper solves the problem of throwing away a brush in its early lifecycle and the microplastics collected in the brushkeeper can be emptied in the waste bin preventing emitting of tons of CO2 and microplastics into the environment. The SME is looking for commercial agreements with distributors and wholesalers that are serving sustainable paint products.

Full Description

A Dutch SME invented and produces ecological paintbrushes and brushkeepers.

The brushkeeper is a professional as well as a consumer oriented product that solves the problem of drying out and damaging resulting in unnecessary throwing away of many paintbrushes. With a brushkeeper users always have a ready-to-use flexible brush. The brushkeeper is a handy bottle with a rubber-like spout-shaped opening in which a paintbrush can be easily inserted (without cleaning first) during a paint job (up to 5 days) or with a liquid for a longer period of times (months, years), so that the brush doesn’t dry out or damage. If a user wants to use another colour just a small amount of liquid has to be put in the brushkeeper and the brush can be cleaned in a few minutes by shaking. Together with ecological professional paintbrushes, suitable for both acrylic and alkyd, the brushkeeper forms a perfect match resulting most durable paintbrushes.

The Dutch SME is looking for commercial agreements with stock keeping distributors, wholesalers and resellers that serve paint products to professionals and end-users at home interested in sustainable solutions.

Resellers are supported with:
• Free test materials to distribute to customers and receive responses from the market.
• Marketing support by offering content and promotion materials.
• A representative that can support resellers in contact with their customers.

Advantages and Innovations

The brushkeeper cares for and ensures easy short time or long time storage of the paintbrush saving hustle and time, cleans automatically hence prevents microplastics to getting into the environment, has a small CO2 footprint and it is very handy.

This all results in:
• No more messing around with foil or sandwich bags
• No more dried out paintbrushes in a jar
• No more microplastics in the environment
• No more disposable brushes needed.
• No more waste of foil, turpentine and time
• No more problems with breaks because you can stop at any time and start again with a perfect paintbrush.

Only in the Netherlands alone the brushkeeper prevents from throwing away millions of brushes each year.

Stage of Development

Already on the market

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 13: Climate Action
Goal 14: Life Below Water
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Goal 15: Life on Land

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner

Type of partner:
Distributors, wholesalers or resellers that have access to the paint market

Role of the partner:
Business development and sales on the basis of having access to networks of professionals and end-users. The partner will be supported with all needed demonstration and marketing materials.
The Dutch SME also has a representative that supports the partner in contact with their client.

Type and Size of Partner