Our corporate R&D Laboratories are located in East Kilbride, Scotland, in the UK. We have additional Design and Development centres located in:

Libertyville, Illinois, USA

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Beijing, China

Taipei, Taiwan

Gothenberg, Sweden

Design Centres are strategically positioned  around the world to work actively with customers through proof of concept, project prototyping and design support. Design Centres are equipped to manage all application testing requirements.

Global laboratories are staffed by graduate and post graduate chemists and engineers. We also cultivate close links with universities and sponsor bursaries and research programmes with the academic community.

Our R&D teams work in many areas of material science, chemistry and technology, such as:

• Surface coatings
• Print technology
• Brand protection technology
• Polymer films
• Adhesives
• Surfactants
• Software development
• Automation