Innovation is the keystone of our sustainable approach. That is why our innovation and development strategy is based on:
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Designing products to meet social,
environmental and market expectations:
 by contributing to energy
efficiency in construction, transportation and renewable energy
by considering lifestyle
requirements: Flexible packaging, disposable hygiene articles, user-friendly
consumer and DIY products
by reducing the cost of
manufacturing: eg. cars, construction components, etc
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Developing
functional adhesives:
Which increase customer value by fulfilling functions beyond bonding
and sealing (such as stretchability, sound-deadening, fire-protection and
insulation) as for examples
compostable
food packaging adhesives
self-debonding
label adhesives during bottle recycling process
adhesives
for buildings insulation and fireproofing, insulating glass sealants
sound-deadening
flooring adhesives
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In order to be competitve, we are
innovative, and have structured our innovative efforts around five main axes:
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Corporate Department of Innovation to set guidelines and encourage productive exchanges
annual meetings and Innovation Forum gathering experts for enhanced cross-fertilisation of ideas
in-house
prizes to stimulate and reward creativity
dedicated
communications tools
various
processes to generate, secure, accelerate and monitor innovation
In order to further optimize this organisation, Bostik uses the Stage-Gate new product development process which insures maximum
efficiency in product development from the idea stage to the commercial launch
of the product.
This method has two major assets: it integrates all the appropriate players at
exactly the right moment, from R&D through to Production and Marketing, and
allows a stringent selection of the best projects.