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Our partnerships
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Many industrial and university partnerships
When it comes to R&D, Arkema’s approach based on partnerships with other industrial companies and with university research units makes it possible to combine the skills of the various stakeholders in joint projects. To be fully effective, these partnerships must involve long-term cooperation. This is the case, for example, with the framework agreement signed in 2008 between Arkema and French research institution, the CNRS, that greatly facilitates scientific exchanges and the transfer of know-how between Arkema and public laboratories.
In France, Arkema is involved in structuring R&D in the Region, within the framework of numerous local partnerships, typically favoring tripartite collaboration between university, research and industry, which is a key factor in its innovation policy.
In this way, Arkema has enhanced its cooperation with the academic and scientific world through its involvement in the creation of the first partnership-based foundation in France, created at the initiative of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. This innovative foundation serves as a frontrunner for the next stage in relationships between universities and companies, contributing not only financial resources, but also technical and strategic expertise, to the foundation.
With the formation of “CANOE”, the Aquitaine Consortium for Innovation in Nanomaterials and Organic Electronics, in 2008, Arkema and the Regional Council of Aquitaine strengthened their partnership with a memorandum of understanding for structuring a European technology innovation platform, devoted to expanding the nanostructured materials industry, a project built around Arkema’s Lacq research center (GRL).
In coordination with ENSIC (National Higher Institute of Chemical Industries, Nancy) and the Lorraine Region, via the Carling research center (CRDE), Arkema is a partner of the Lorraine center of expertise in process intensification.
In the same way, Arkema contributes to the economic development of the Regions, through its involvement in research projects at a number of competitiveness clusters:
Arkema works with its partners to develop new technologies and new products.
The Group is thus involved in more than thirty collaborative R&D projects, a dozen of which are Europe-wide, including the Genesis program:
This program brings large industrial corporations, small and medium-size enterprises and a number of university laboratories together around Arkema, a leader in the field of nanostructured materials and the only European producer of controlled-architecture functional copolymers, in a partnership that directly links the design of materials and their applications for various markets selected for their technological innovation potential: automotive, cabling, structural composites, energy, the environment, and information and communication technologies.
