Innovation partnerships
Innovating to power your growth
Anticipating and responding to our customers’ changing needs through innovation is the bedrock of our successful, long-term customer relationships. Continuous research and innovation allow us to develop game-changing products, processes and technologies that are helping to redefine the future of minerals.
This means new ways of thinking, fresh ideas, new technology platforms, and new ways to deliver more sustainable solutions for future generations. It means working with our partners across the value chain to bring together expertise in mineral applications and materials science to discover as yet unknown solutions.
Our Science & Technology teams have several hundred years of combined mineral expertise, along with unrivaled applications knowledge to improve customer formulations. We partner with our customers and the world’s leading research institutes to deliver tomorrow’s innovations and drive growth.
Hand in hand with customers…
Pooling our expertise groupwide at our Technology Centers, we work in close partnership with our customers to develop new, unique solutions to solve technical challenges they may be facing, or helping them to find new solutions.
And with research institutes worldwide
Our Science & Technology teams are also engaged in applied research, working extensively with universities and external institutes in Europe and the USA to ensure we draw on knowledge and expertise that’s at the forefront of technology.
Each year, we introduce new products onto the market, including continuity innovations, resulting from improvements to the existing range, and disruptive innovations, based on the development of new concepts.
Our latest innovations
Working at our Technology Centers in John's Creek, Atlanta (USA), Tianjin (China), Cornwall (UK), Bironico (Switzerland), Villach (Austria), Lyon and Toulouse (France), our S&T teams focus on finding ground-breaking applications for our minerals and new formulations to improve existing applications and meet future needs.
Learn more about our pioneering innovations.
Imerys’ ITC Tianjin marks a decade of pioneering research, global partnerships and product innovation, advancing solutions for diverse industries, from refractory to performance minerals.
A project to test calcined clay as an ingredient in low-carbon concrete has proven its sustainable potential to reduce the cement sector's environmental impact from its current level of 8% of global CO₂ emissions.
Imerys Al Zayani Bahrain is celebrating the inauguration of a 4.7-megawatt solar power plant, marking a significant stride towards sustainability and cost reduction. The collaborative effort supports Imerys’ 2030 goal to align its activities with the 1.5°C trajectory, contributing over 15% reduction in GHG emissions for the white fused alumina production plant.
Conductive carbon blacks are essential for clean and efficient energy solutions such as lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells. As demand for these products rises in automotive and other energy transition sectors, Imerys is continuously improving its innovation, research and production efficiency to deliver beneficial product solutions to its customers. This commitment recently led to the inauguration of the cutting-edge Carbon Black Pilot Plant at Imerys Willebroek.
