Our customers are our main innovation driver. For us, customer centricity means listening to our customers’ feedback to address their requirements and translate them into our innovation targets. We are revolutionising our approach to innovation by engaging our employees to deliver creative, market-leading ideas and turning these ideas into solutions. Basically, everybody at Armacell is involved in innovation.

The lightweighting trend in the transport industry is a good example. Makers of cars, trains and planes need to save weight to reduce fuel consumption. So we developed PET-based foam products that enable lightweight composite solutions. In automotives, recycled content and recyclability have become more and more important. So together with our academia partners and OEM customers we developed complete solutions for headliners, trunk floors, walls and side trims – adhesive-free and fully recyclable under the PET recycling scheme.

In a very different field, we responded to the need for firestopping solutions that protect assets and save lives by developing the first-ever UL-classified aerogel-based insulation – two products, ArmaFlex® Ultra and ArmaGel® HTF Ultima, that improve visibility and respiration, thus giving occupants more time to escape from a burning building.