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Performance Materials

DSM’s Performance Materials R&D focuses on researching and developing high-quality, cost-efficient synthetic materials tailored to meet customers’ performance criteria in terms of specific structural and functional properties. R&D in this area also concentrates on the transition to specialty materials with a higher added value, such as bioterials, making use of knowledge and competences shared with DSM’s Nutrition and Pharma R&D.

Markets served by this R&D activity include the automotive sector, the electrical and electrics industry, coatings, and construction.

Our R&D work in Performance Materials is carried out at a large number of places across the world.

Performance Materials
Business groups

R&D work in Performance Materials is largely driven by the following business groups:


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