Swiss chemicals firm Clariant launches consumer-care competence centre here

Singapore

SWISS specialty-chemicals company Clariant on Wednesday unveiled its new consumer-care competence centre in Singapore, in a bid to better align its products with customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

With a total of five application development centres now in the region, Clariant's new Singapore centre, which includes an application lab, is the first that focuses on sensorial testing for personal and home-care products in the Asia-Pacific.

Stephan Lynen, head of Clariant's Asia-Pacific industrial and consumer specialties unit, said that the new centre would help its partners find claims for future trends. "It will serve as the link to our w…