Projects and cases
You need great innovations to excel in your markets, and that is what we do best. At Azelis we listen, analyse and get to work to come up with innovative solutions that will help you gain competitive edge. Here are some examples of great innovations:
How to achieve a clear coat flooring varnish that exposes ultra-high mechanical resistances? Our team at the CASE lab in Germany took up the challenge with an extra requirement: they were asked to use only water-based, non-hazardous raw materials and, moreover, the final coating formulation needed to work and dry at room temperature. Our people put heads together and got to work.
Cross-functional teamwork proved essential in this case. Thanks to the excellent cooperation between the lab, customer, sales manager and principals – not to mention the amazing synergies of the raw materials we selected – we developed a coating that not only met our customer’s needs, but it even beat the industry benchmark.
Finding it difficult to make the medicine go down?
We found the best flavour to cover a bitter nutraceutical active, and enhanced it for an even better taste.
Tired of topical creams not giving your skin the softness and brightness cosmetic solutions do?
We have worked tirelessly on skin feel modification for better aesthetic results for medical creams.
At our Pharma labs we carry out blue skies research in order to better understand the materials we offer. We have most recently focussed on the flavour portfolio and have also dug into topical ingredients to design products around concept areas, such as eczema or acne treatments. Our exhaustive research, together with own tablet coating machine and technical expertise, enables us to build hands-on experience for a deep understanding of the processes and parameters that affect the end solution.
Good news for our health: now more than ever, sport is in. And so is sport nutrition! Our customer, a spice blender with more than 20 years’ experience, decided to expand business toward this thriving market. Endurance running seemed to be the main interest, so we ventured out for an isotonic drink.
Co-creation is king. Our customer had the food know-how and equipment. We had the experience we had with new ingredients, new segments, labelling and other regulatory matters. Together we completed the recipe, defined the right labelling and hit the mark.
The product was launched and now lies on the shelf under the new brand “Restart Energy”.
Enduring coatings that outshine and catch the eye? We were asked to improve a customer's product by performing exposure tests to better present their products to their customers. Many companies in the Industrial Coatings market do not have the lab capabilities to perform testing in this area, but in Americas we do. We carried out a whole range of tests including UV/QUV, adhesion and Taber abrasion. Results showed that our customer's products were excellent, and the test results enabled them to provide more comprehensive data to their customers and gain new business.