Process Commercialization Learnings from a Specialty Chemical Business in an Era of Sustainability

In a specialty chemical business, the main purpose of commercialization is to transition a new product from R&D through manufacturing to provide value to the end users. Quality, safety and cost play the traditional major roles in successful implementation of a new offering. Product life-cycle and sustainability are trending as a new aspect to guide process design in adding value for the customer. We have found some common elements while investigating the hand-off from development to manufacturing, which can provide engineers a clearer understanding of what is needed to implement their process designs and improvements in a sustainable manner. The audience will be presented with several narratives which illustrate these learnings.