DSM is going to invest approximately €100 million in three new R&D facilities in Delft and Sittard-Geleen (both in the Netherlands) over the next two years.

The investment in Delft concerns a new laboratory for biotechnological research as well as a DSM contribution to the recently formed consortium for the Bioprocess Pilot Facility (BPF) for bio-research.

In Sittard-Geleen a new materials sciences research building will be realized on the Chemelot Campus.

The laboratories in Delft and Sittard-Geleen, where some 700 researchers will be working, are expected to open their doors in 2014. .