With the new building, the company is promoting the interdisciplinary research dialogue between its two divisions, Scent & Care and Flavour & Nutrition.
Dr Heinz-Jürgen Bertram, CEO of Symrise AG, highlighted the role of the new research centre: “Around the world, new trends are coming into existence every day and consumers are developing new needs. We strategically incorporate these strong dynamics arising from individual markets and segments into our research work in order to develop innovative solutions early on. That is why we cross-link our business units and pool our research activities. In this way, we realise interdisciplinary projects and can optimally make use of our competencies in the areas of fragrances, functional ingredients and flavours.”
Symrise has invested €10m in the new building. Each year, the group spends more than €100m on research and development.
“With our new research centre, we want to strengthen our expertise in research and development, which is the basis for a competitive position as well as for accelerated growth,” said Bertram. “A special point of emphasis was put on researching functional ingredients for healthy nutrition and conscious personal care.”
The company paid special attention to sustainability issues during construction of the building; waste heat from the surrounding laboratory buildings is used in the form of steam condensate to provide at least 75% of the heating for the new building.
Source: Symrise
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