Croda Selects Dotmatics to Deliver R&D Digital Program
Dotmatics has been selected by Croda International to implement a comprehensive electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution across all global R&D sites, enhancing Croda’s data-driven innovation capabilities, accelerating product development through improved data science, collaboration, and knowledge management, and supporting sustainability-driven growth by enabling advanced data analytics, sample tracking, and external partnerships in biotechnology, chemistry, and formulation research.
Project Supports Croda’s Global Research & Development Digital Program Across All R&D Locations
Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company focused on automating laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, announced it has been selected by Croda International Plc to implement its Research and Development (R&D) digital program. Croda is known for high-performance ingredients and technologies used in major global brands, creating and selling specialty chemicals relied on by industries and consumers.
This project will enhance Croda’s ability to innovate collaboratively, both internally and externally, by delivering improved data science capabilities across the company’s global R&D knowledge base through the implementation of Dotmatics’ electronic lab notebook (ELN).
With this initiative, Croda aims to accelerate innovation delivery, enhance customer collaborations, and generate growth through impactful, sustainability-driven solutions. By intensifying its data-driven approach to innovation, Croda will move towards data mining, providing a foundation for artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts to shorten product development lifecycles. Investment in a knowledge management platform supports Croda’s strategy to further innovation and increase its proportion of new and protected products.
Dotmatics will provide Croda scientists with a complete ELN solution, including experiment capture, entity registration, sample tracking, data retrieval, and full data analytics. The unified platform will support Croda’s workflow across biotechnology, synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, formulation, and claims substantiation. This will allow researchers to trace, share, secure, and exploit all their R&D data internally, as well as facilitate collaboration with external partners, including customers and academic institutions.
Executive Comments
Steve Gallagher, CEO of Dotmatics:
“We are delighted to have been chosen as a partner by Croda to implement their R&D digital program and we warmly welcome them to the Dotmatics community of global scientific organizations.
Implementing Dotmatics’ unified platform will allow Croda researchers to better leverage valuable corporate R&D knowledge and data. Web-based rapid capture, search and retrieval of data combined with advanced analytics will support global shared decision-making: further empowering scientists to innovate.”
Damian Kelly, Vice President Innovation & Technology Development at Croda:
“At Croda, the role of R&D is to develop our Smart science to improve lives™. Our R&D digital program will further support our existing capability to provide sustainable, innovative, technology-rich products to our customers. The Dotmatics platform is an important part of our digital program and will enable rapid and easy access to research data.
Our scientists are driving our digital transformation program with the goal of accelerating the development of our technology platforms and delivering the best sustainable solutions to our customers.”
About Croda
Established in 1925, Croda is the name behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands. Croda creates, makes, and sells specialty chemicals relied on by industries and consumers everywhere.
Croda is a FTSE 100 company with over 5,600 passionate and innovative employees, working across manufacturing sites and offices around the world with a shared Purpose to use Smart science to improve lives™. With around two thirds of its organic raw materials already from bio-based sources, Croda has committed to being the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients, aiming to become Climate, Land and People Positive by 2030.
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