Imerys opens its extended European Technology Center for performance minerals in Toulouse, France
Geared towards our clients' operational requirements, the idea behind this investment is to speed up the launch of new products to meet the emerging needs of our key markets.
The 2500m² Toulouse Technology Center hosts 50 experts and features state-of-the-art equipment for the polymer, rubber, paint, ceramic, building materials, fltration, health and food & feed markets.
Imerys is today opening the new facilities at its European Technology Center for performance minerals. Over an area of some 2500 m², the new site will focus Imerys' R&D resources on its key markets, while at the same time enabling knowledge to be shared with our other laboratories elsewhere in Europe, the US and Asia.
Recognised in Europe by manufacturers as a leading laboratory engaged in optimising and developing new mineral-based solutions for plastics (virgin, recycled and biopolymer resins), elastomers and life sciences, the Toulouse Technology Center is also a world centre of excellence for polymer applications. With this new investment, it now boasts experts and equipment for the ceramic, building materials, filtration, health and food & feed markets.
The Toulouse laboratory expanded its capacity at the end of 2020 and now employs more than 50 French and international technicians and scientists. Its location in Toulouse means that the Group will now have access to major university and scientific resources throughout a region that is home to major R&D initiatives.
Imerys' areas of expertise include:
polymers for the automotive, electronics and recycling markets;
agriculture, cosmetics, human food and animal feed and pharmaceutical products;
ceramics for the tile and sanitaryware markets, for tableware and kiln furniture;
innovative building materials, such as mineral insulation and geopolymers;
filtration for industrial and food applications;
paints and coatings for industrial applications.
"Focusing our R&D resources at our Toulouse Technology Center of excellence will help us achieve the critical size required to speed up the launch of new mineral solutions which our clients need in their own quest for innovation and performance", says Guillaume Delacroix, Imerys' Vice President in charge of Performance Minerals for EMEA. "We will be able to use this Center to simulate the way in which our mineral solutions can be used in our clients' production processes. The focus will also be on the life cycle of our new products - an increasingly important criterion in the ecological transition that industry in Europe is currently undergoing".
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The world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, with €3.8 billion revenue and 16,400 employees in 2020, Imerys delivers high value-added,functional solutions to diversifed set of industrial sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. The Group draws on its knowledge of applications, technological expertise and its material science know-howto deliver solutions based on benefciation of its mineral resources, synthetic minerals and formulations. These contribute essential properties to customers' products and performance, including refractoriness, hardness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, fltration, absorption and repellency. Imerys is determined to develop responsibly, in particular by fostering the emergence of environmentally-friendlyproducts and processes.
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As a world leader in mineral specialties for the industry, Imerys offers high-added-value business solutions for a wide range of sectors, from process industries to consumer goods or construction products. The group actively mobilizes its knowledge of applications, technological expertise and materials science know how to provide high-end solutions that value its mineral resources, develop formulations or produce synthetic minerals. All these actions bring about essential properties to its customers' products and their performance such as refractoriness, toughness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, filtration, absorption, or hydrophobicity. Imerys is strongly committed to responsible developmentin particular, to contribute to the development of environmentally friendly products and processes. The activity is organized around 2 areas:
- Performance Minerals: the segment brings together three geographical business areas - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), America and Asia/Pacific (APAC). This segment encompasses functional additives that give unique properties to the products they compose. It serves the plastics, rubber, paint and coatings, filtration, ceramic materials, renewable energy, paper and cardboard, food, health and cosmetic industries;
- Materials and High Temperature Solutions: the segment, managed globally, brings together two business areas - High Temperature Solutions and Refractories, Abrasives & Construction. This segment facilitates production processes involving high temperatures. It serves the refractory, foundry, metals, abrasives and building chemicals markets.
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