Beyond The Surface
We deliver technical due diligence and roadmap verification for material science investments, specializing in advanced polymers, sustainable packaging, and closed-loop recovery systems.
Science-based audits
Strategic Perspective
Bridging the Technical Gap
Sustainability and the Circular Economy have evolved beyond ethical aspirations into complex, high-stakes technical dimensions that define modern industrial success. While the current landscape attracts the growing number of new ventures and early-stage startups eager to enter the market, it also creates a significant gap between a visionary pitch and industrial reality.
Standard financial due diligence identifies market potential and profit, but it often lacks the science-based capability to identify the technical barriers, hidden risks, and structural weaknesses that cause technologies to fail at scale. Overpromises, optimistic assumptions and unverified "green" claims create a standard of negligence that leads to a loss of time, capital, and credibility. At Cirma Consulting, we secure industrial innovation through a deep understanding of the science and technology involved.
By closing the technical gap, we ensure your sustainability journey is verified.
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Cirma Consulting is a technical advisory firm specializing in the intersection of material science and industrial scaling. We act as the technical filter for high-impact investments, ensuring that scientific potential translates into industrial reality.
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Our work is grounded in clarity and collaboration. We start by listening, understanding the science, the context, and the goals behind each project. From there, we work alongside our partners to turn technical complexity into actionable insights. Every engagement ends with something we stand behind: a result that is both rigorous in its analysis and realistic in its recommendations. We aim to bridge the scientific world to business, helping both sides communicate with precision and clarity.
Our goal is to make technical due diligence not just a compliance step, but a strategic advantage.
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We partner with venture capital funds, institutional investors, and incubators that require deep technical due diligence before committing capital to complex material‑science or circular‑economy projects.
Focus Areas
We focus on the technical foundations that make sustainability scalable.
Packaging, Sustainable Polymers & Coatings
Not every bioplastic creates value.
We evaluate the functional performance and true drop‑in viability of sustainable materials, helping distinguish innovation from well‑packaged imitation. Beyond materials, we navigate the full landscape of sustainability claims: from recyclability and compostability to bio‑based content and carbon impact, assessing whether technologies perform as promised. Our work cuts through vague terminology and marketing language, delivering evidence‑based insight into what is feasible, scalable, and sustainable in practice.
Advanced Polymer Science
From advanced materials to industrial‑scale applications, we assess the chemistry behind innovation. Our audits verify material performance and integrity, ensuring that promising technologies can move from lab to market with confidence.
Circular Strategy & ESG Integration
Sustainability has shifted from green aspiration to a systems‑level industrial challenge. A credible circular strategy must satisfy both financial rigor and the realities of industrial infrastructure. Both factors determine whether a resource loop stays closed or collapses under operational pressure. Any new model must be evaluated against the elements that truly drive change: the recovery pathways that support it, the purity and usability of secondary raw materials, the efficiency of its processes, and its alignment with regulatory and ESG frameworks.
We review circular models to uncover hidden technical risks and structural barriers. By auditing these critical aspects, we help ensure that new systems are not only conceptually circular, but capable of creating long‑term value in practice.
Methodology
Technology Assessment
Evaluation of technical viability based on scientific expertise, physical chemistry, and intellectual property strength.
Scalability Analysis
Validation of circularity, regulatory, and LCA data to ensure “green” promises hold scientific weight.
Lifecycle Verification
Benchmarking lab-sclae performance against global industrial manufacturing constraints and chemical engineering limits.
Team
Iuliia Konko, PhD
Iuliia Konko is a Technical Expert and Strategist focusing on the sustainable packaging and advanced materials sectors. She remains deeply embedded in the industrial sector and currently leads technical initiatives within a global, market-leading Life Science organization (DAX), where she oversees the strategy of sustainable and circular packaging for the EMEA region.
Prior to this, she spent years as a Sustainable Packaging Scientist at Johnson & Johnson Consumer (today Kenvue), where she led upstream research, established technical business cases for chemical recycling and bio-based polymers, and directed the industrial qualification of recycled plastics (including PCR, PIR, PET, and HDPE). Following her doctoral work, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Network for Asian Open Research (NAO) jointly established by BASF and the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This role provided her with firsthand expertise in advanced polymer structure analysis within one of the world's primary manufacturing hubs. Additionally, her experience as a Global Consultant for PreScouter allowed her to scout and systematically audit emerging sustainable technologies for international corporate R&D divisions.
Iuliia holds a PhD in the Physics and Physical Chemistry of Polymers from the University of Strasbourg, specializing in polymer structure-property relationships and soft condensed matter.
Location
Strasbourg, France
Languages
English, French, Ukrainian
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