PolyOne Unveils Advanced Innovation Center in Avon Lake

16-May-2011 - USA

PolyOne Corporation opened the doors of a state-of-the art Innovation Center at its Avon Lake, Ohio headquarters. “The Innovation Center bridges the gap between concept and commercialization for our customers, and enables them to cut development time while boosting their profitability,” said Stephen D. Newlin, PolyOne chairman, president and chief executive officer.

This facility will support PolyOne’s Global Specialty Platform customers with leading-edge capabilities for application development, testing, process optimization and color matching. The new facility is a significant extension of the Company’s customer-focused resources, and represents a first-phase investment of over $3 million.

“The combined financial investment and technological expansion underscores our commitment to deliver specialized services and material solutions that create value for customers,” said Dr. Cecil C. Chappelow, vice president, innovation, sustainability, and chief innovation officer.

Part of a network of ten customer-focused facilities around the world, PolyOne’s Avon Lake Innovation Center was designed to provide an environment that facilitates creativity and supports customers in co-developing solutions to the challenges they face. Customers will interact with PolyOne’s dedicated engineers and scientists in real time to streamline the product development cycle and foster innovation.

While the Center will also add new capabilities for long-term product-related research and process development and enhance technical collaboration between PolyOne business units, its most important purpose is to support collaboration with customers. To facilitate an interactive experience, it features modern, comfortable areas where customers can relax, brainstorm, and work; a showroom area to help generate ideas; and a color chip display room to help explore possibilities in color and special effects.

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