Evonik strengthens Asian presence with new beauty innovation hub in Shangai
The facility enables the company to support beauty and personal care brands across China and Asia through more diverse, collaborative development models that accelerate the development of next-generation cosmetic solutions.
CHINA – Evonik has officially opened its first Beauty Science & Innovation Centre in Asia at the Evonik Shanghai Innovation Park in China, marking a significant expansion of its research and development capabilities in the world’s second-largest cosmetics market.
The Asia Beauty Science & Innovation Centre integrates comprehensive research, development, and innovation (RD&I) capabilities by combining biotechnology-driven ingredient innovation with formulation expertise and consumer-relevant testing and validation capabilities.
As China experiences rapid market growth alongside intensifying competition, Evonik is expanding its locally developed and manufactured beauty portfolio while investing in advanced innovation capabilities to help customers differentiate their brands and meet evolving consumer expectations.
Fuliang Xia, President of Evonik Greater China, stated, “This new centre brings together multiple innovation capabilities in one place.”
“In a fast-evolving and highly competitive market like China, this integrated approach allows us to translate scientific insights into market-ready solutions with greater speed and precision.”
Xia added, “Our centre reinforces Shanghai’s position as a key innovation hub within Evonik’s global R&D network.”
The centre functions as an integrated hub featuring several complementary facilities.
The Asia RD&I Platform that enables cross-functional RD&I activities spanning from molecular design to industrial scale-up, including enzymatic esterification, polyglycerol ester development, and end-to-end functional ingredient innovation further strengthened through strategic partnerships with external collaborators to accelerate biotechnology advancement.
The Asia Personal Care Applied Innovation Lab works closely with brands across skincare, cleansing, hair care, sun care, and color cosmetics, supporting the complete development journey from trend insights and formulation design through prototyping, stability assessment, sensory evaluation, efficacy testing, and scientific communication to advance the translation of concepts into ready-to-use solutions.
The Chinese laboratory of the global Evonik Skin Institute is specifically dedicated to understanding and addressing the unique characteristics of Asian skin, leveraging high-throughput screening, advanced 3D skin models, clinical study design, state-of-the-art skin imaging, and biomarker analysis to deliver robust efficacy substantiation and credible product claims based on a strong customer-centric foundation.
Additionally, the Customer Experience Center serves as a multifunctional space designed to enhance customer engagement and interaction, providing a platform for solution demonstrations, scientific communication co-creation, and exploration of more flexible and collaborative partnership models.
Evonik Beauty & Personal Care, part of the Care Solutions business line, is dedicated to empowering brands to create eco-friendly products that elevate consumer health and well-being, uniting expertise across skin, hair, scalp, active ingredients, delivery systems, and product protection to deliver tailored, sustainable solutions bridging performance and responsibility.
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