Performance Materials

Today’s consumers are well informed and expect more functionality from a product at lower prices. Companies engaged in new product innovation are witnessing increasingly complex products and shortening product life-cycles.

As these products become increasingly complex, gaining enough understanding to be able to innovate requires larger numbers of experiments and correspondingly longer development periods. At the same time, the unit cost of experimentation is also rising. Thus the cost of bringing a product to market is increasing and there is a shorter time within which to make the required return on an increased investment.

hte's superior high throughput technology and approaches enable you to meet these challenges in your quest to deliver innovative new products more rapidly.

The key is increased productivity through the use of laboratory workflow automation. We have created modular, integrated R&D workflow solutions which combine industrial robotics, process control and informatics software. With these you can expand the scope of experimental search without increasing human resource input, even as you reduce time-to-market for breakthrough new products.

We call it innovation productivity - it's the competitive advantage you need in today's rapidly changing, customer driven markets.

hte provides workflow solutions for clients across the performance materials and consumer products industries. Example product categories addressed would be:

•  Coatings
•  Home and Personal Care Products
  
• Cosmetics
• Lubricants and  Fuel Additives
• Food Products
  

Workflow solutions can be implemented directly into the laboratories of our client or operated by hte technical staff at our laboratory facilities in Heidelberg as part of an R&D collaboration.