Nouryon Opens New Innovation Center in Shanghai
Nouryon has opened a new innovation center in Shanghai to boost localized innovation, customer collaboration, and sustainable development in key industries across China and the Asia Pacific region, featuring advanced labs and a customer experience center to accelerate co-development of tailored solutions.
Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Nouryon today announced the opening of its newest innovation center in Shanghai, China, a state-of-the-art facility designed to strengthen the company’s commitment to localized innovation, customer co-development, and sustainable growth in China and across the Asia Pacific region. The center more than doubles the space of the company’s previous facility in Shanghai. It significantly enhances its technical capabilities through investments in testing and analytical equipment, focusing on high-growth sectors such as agriculture, electronics, construction, and pharmaceuticals. And specific to the personal care sector, a highlight of the new facility includes a customer experience center.
“The launch of our innovation center in Shanghai marks another important milestone in Nouryon’s future in China,” said Charlie Shaver, Chairman and CEO of Nouryon. “It deepens our commitment to innovation and customer intimacy, while enhancing our ability to co-develop high-performance, market-tailored solutions. This center will play a critical role in supporting our customers’ growth across key industries and accelerating our strategic ambitions in China and the broader Asia-Pacific region.” Shaver added that the center – currently the 14th in the company’s global innovation network – supports rapid prototyping, performance testing and the development of solutions tailored to Chinese industries.
The innovation center enhances Nouryon’s capabilities in China and features eight specialized laboratories, including new labs dedicated to its products. A key highlight of the facility is a customer experience center for Nouryon’s Personal Care business, offering hands-on customer collaboration through workshops, live demonstrations, and formulation development. Nouryon will be able to showcase product performance in real-world applications and accelerate the co-creation of market-ready solutions aligned with local consumer needs.
The center also supports Nouryon’s sustainability goals by accelerating the development of eco-friendly solutions, including low volatile organic-compound coatings, fully biobased chelates, biopolymer-based personal care products and more sustainable microspheres.
Nouryon also recently announced that in 2026, the company will open an organic peroxides innovation center in Tianjin to provide specialized polymer application capabilities for faster product development and enhanced customer support.
