news 中文 日本語 order online about ▼ industries ▼ products ▼ sustainability ▼ services ▼ investors contact us Home > About > Ashland innovation and technology Ashland innovation and technology responsibly solving for a better world Ashland has been at the forefront of designing, synthesizing and producing specialty additives and ingredients that are essential to everyday life. We design our materials to deliver key functional attributes including sustainability, rheology, solubilization, film formation, stiffness, flexibility, and more that enable our customers’ products to provide the benefits consumers demand. Our solutions address key global megatrends and our products range from oral solid dose pharmaceuticals, natural, nature-derived and biodegradable ingredients for personal care, and water-based solutions for paint. Ashland supports this broad range of products and applications because of our solid expertise in polymer science. With deep understanding of polymer design and assembly, Ashland produces a wide variety of homopolymers, copolymers, graft copolymers and crosslinked copolymers on platforms constructed from natural and synthetic building blocks. From our broad base of materials and capabilities, Ashland quickly adapts to new market trends as consumer preferences and needs change. In addition, Ashland is well positioned to be a critical partner to new and emerging application fields, especially where new polymer functionalities are required. Ashland's core technologies include natural extracts & biofunctionals, functional nutrition solutions, polysaccharides, acetylenics, polyesters, polyethers, monomers and functional molecules. Ashland global technology brings together scientists in applied research, biodegradation, encapsulation, measurement science, process technology, process safety and digital innovations to enable a comprehensive team approach to collaboration, execution and delivering on the most challenging technical projects to help our customers provide solutions to the consumer. Ashland innovations Previous functionalized natural feedstock enabling multiple end uses Who loves whiter, brighter smiles? We do. Our solvers have developed technology that is both nature derived and biodegradable. read more > view video > next-gen controlled release polymers Who brings R&D to controlled release? We do. We developed newer versions of controlled release polymers, which allow production of controlled release tablets at much higher production rates. read more > view video > Next 1 2 3 mega trend solutions 1 2 Next Previous technology & business innovations efficacy usability allure integrity profitability about industries products sustainability services investors contact us general sales terms and conditions global code of conduct privacy sds search suppliers and vendors terms of use transparency in supply chain disclosure efficacy usability allure integrity profitability ©2021, Ashland. All rights reserved. We use cookies to personalize and enhance your experience on our site, aid in navigation, analyze the use of our products and services, assist with our marketing efforts, and provide content from third parties. By clicking the "accept" button, you are consenting to receive and store cookies from our site. If you do not accept the deployment of cookies, some of the functionality of our website will be lost. Once accepted, you can delete the cookies at any time from your browser. To request any information collected via cookies to be deleted, follow the instructions in our use of cookies, on our Privacy Policy. accept