To optimize its research and best meet local market requirements, Lafarge has put into place an international R&D network. Research is centralized at the Group’s Research Center near Lyon, France. The Research Center then works closely with the Group’s technical centers and laboratories around the world for the development and industrialization of solutions at local level.
The Lafarge Research Center: innovation in motion |
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The 250 researchers at the Lafarge Research Center seek to understand physical and chemical mechanisms and elaborate new technologies.
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Working at the Research centerGilles Chanvillard, Materials & Modeling Scientific Director "The Group's Research center brings together, on a single site, all of the scientific experts who are needed to master materials: chemists, physicists, powder specialists, rheologists, etc. Each project is piloted by a scientific support committee, which gathers and circulates information between experts. Ideas are fed into a knowledge base which, in the spirit of shared innovation, is accessible to everyone." |
Product development to meet local market requirements |
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Map of Lafarge cement Technical centers
Technical center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Technical centers and development laboratories work with the Research Center and the Group’s business units to adapt new products developed by Lafarge’s researchers to the needs and specific characteristics of local markets. They also work to improve industrial performance: plants throughout the world can therefore call on a network of local experts to intervene rapidly to improve plant processes, for example optimizing formulas to reflect the availability of local raw materials.
Lafarge has 4 Technical centers for Cement located in:
Lafarge also has a number of concrete development laboratories, which work in close partnership with the Lafarge Research Center to carry out testing to adapt new products to local market conditions.
The Technical Development Center for the Gypsum Business is based in Avignon, France. The Center studies the application of products and systems in real environments. For example, it has a very sophisticated acoustic measurement laboratory which allows it to:
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