The executive president of Colep Consumer Products Portugal told Lusa this Wednesday that “99% of the work carried out” in the new Vale de Cambra innovation center, an investment of 3.5 million euros, “is for outside Portugal” .
Colep Consumer Products Portugal, which operates in the cosmetics and beauty, personal care and wellness segments, opens its new ‘Innovation Hub’ (IH) in Vale de Cambra, an investment that consolidates the company’s position as a leader in innovation in the sector and reinforces its commitment to research and development of differentiating products, says the group.
When asked which markets the innovation center will work for, Pierfranco Accardo said that, “Currently, 99% of the work carried out at IH is carried out outside Portugal”.
The ‘hub’, which is already operational, There will be 50 “highly qualified” jobs, pointed.
“Currently we have 15 members with university training, 20 with a master’s degree, 1 doctorate —we have eight nationalities (Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain and Venezuela)— [e] “We intend to strengthen the team” in the near future, stated the CEO.
The Innovation Hub “is cataloged as ‘unique in the Iberian Peninsula’ because brings together, in a single space, all aerosol technologies (‘Standard Aerosol, Bag-on-Valve, Naturally Propelled Aerosol [nitrogen]’, among others), also has the ability to develop liquids and creams“It includes a 359 square meter laboratory that includes a laboratory entirely dedicated to ‘packaging’ testing, which allows us to test the products we develop ‘indoors,’” said the CEO.
“Portugal is the place where we have a highly experienced and qualified team, Colep Consumer Products has developed, over the years, a highly professional and qualified team and this was the basic foundation, a launching pad for this school,” the manager continued.
Asked if this innovation center will use artificial intelligence (AI), the person in charge said “not at the moment.”
But “We are working to develop new partnerships and pilot projects to work with AI”he added.
Right now, “the work we are doing is trying to discover how AI can help us here, so we can then apply it,” he concluded.
Colep Consumer Products Portugal is a company with a global presence, operating in Portugal, Poland and Mexico. It has a strategic partnership with One Asia Network, an alliance of three manufacturers (Daizo from Japan, Pax from Australia and Wonder Products from India), which allows it to cover various needs in the Asian market.
Source: Observadora
