Clariant Announces New Collaborative Innovation Center to Support North America’s Paints and Coatings Industry Beyond Colour
Clariant announces a new collaborative innovation center to meet the challenges of emerging trends, increasing performance requirements, and sustainability needs in the paint and coatings industry. Clariant’s new state-of-the-art laboratory will bring together its research and technical experts in specialty formulation ingredients and additives to foster collaborative product development across all formulation aspects.
Existing capabilities at the Charlotte location, which includes research laboratories and a pilot plant currently used by the technical teams of Clariant Industrial and Consumer Specialties, will be upgraded and expanded with an additional 5000 square feet of new laboratories and office space.
“Clariant has a long-standing customer-centric approach to supporting the paints and coatings industry,” said Ray Gonzales, newly appointed head of sales North America, Clariant BU Additives.