PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Led by a Ph.D. scientist, our product development team uses a disciplined stage-gate process to develop and deliver innovative solutions to meet current and emerging demands of the resurfacing market.
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Use technical formulary expertise to develop differentiated and sustainable solutions for resurfacing market
- World class laboratory located at our corporate Headquarters in Wheeling, IL
- Proximity to UL, University of Illinois (Chicago), Northwestern University, and Argonne National Laboratory
- Extensive capabilities - washability tester, pencil hardness, slip testing, sag resistance, and many other testing and coatings performance instruments
- 40+ years of paint and coating-related experience and staffed by the industry’s top paint and coating experts
Utilize cross-functional, disciplined stage-gate commercial development process to manage New Product Development projects
- Five distinct gates to New Product Development: Ideation, Predevelopment, Development, Pre-commercialization, and Commercialization
- Accelerates speed-to-market
- Increases the likelihood of product success
- Introduces discipline into a sometimes-chaotic process
- Reduces re-work and other forms of waste
- Achieves efficient and effective allocation of scarce resources
- Ensures a complete process - no critical steps are omitted
Close collaboration with customers on specific projects with clearly defined goals and milestones, commitment from management on both sides- The Formulary Approach
- Partnership - working with customers to understand their needs
- Develop a formulation using Design of Experiment (DOE) to meet and exceed the expectations
- Validate the formulation/product with parallel evaluation
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