Evonik is driving the internationalization of its research & development (R&D) for the cosmetic industry forward. “Evonik is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of products and active ingredients for the cosmetic industry. The distinctly expanded global structure of Innovation Management strengthens our position as strategic partner of our customers close to their local markets and thus supports profitable growth,” says Hans-Josef Ritzert, member of the Board of Management of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH.
The company recently opened innovation centers in Midrand (South Africa) and Singapore, which develop product solutions in the area of personal care for customers in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The new facilities supplement the worldwide network of laboratories of Evonik’s cosmetic business, which also includes sites in Essen, Guarulhos (Brazil), Hopewell (USA), and Shanghai (China). Evonik has just added a hair laboratory to the applications laboratory that has existed in Guarulhos/Brazil since 2012, in order to support its customers in Central and South America in the development of innovative hair care products. More than one hundred employees worldwide work in research & development for the cosmetic industry. In the past years, Evonik has put new large-scale plants for the production of active ingredients for the cosmetics industry into operation in China and Brazil. With this, the company is also active in these attractive growth markets and can serve local and regional customers from a local base even better.
