STYLE AND TECHNOLOGY: INNOVATION ACCORDING TO ALCANTARA®

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The demand for innovation represents a specific need for the most selective consumers and it calls for the capacity to provide tailor-made solutions, a perfect synthesis of style and technology. A demand that provides Alcantara® with the opportunity to express its wealth of values and its uniqueness in comparison with other materials. Alcantara® can speak several languages, it is a contemporary material, nice to look at and to touch. A material to experience, with unlimited expressive potentials.

For many years, the company has been thoroughly dedicated to innovation, in both styling and technology. Bespoke solutions require an integrated company approach and the capacity to listen to the market and its needs. In this process, the Alcantara® R&D role is fundamental. Unique in Europe, the department deals with the identification of new products and polymers, searching for new processes to use for future market opportunities. The company currently invests 4,5% of its sales  proceeds in R&D.

The opening towards technological innovation is also supported by strong relationships with the most important European Universities, active in all research fields related to Alcantara® products. These partnerships are of key importance: not only for acquiring and sharing basic and applied research data but also in view of client collaborations, to help provide them with both products and customized solutions. Alcantara S.p.A. has an impressive technological know-how that allows it to satisfy both technical and style-related needs. Also thanks to its Applications Development Center (C.S.A.), it can develop colors and product typologies upon request, following the most complex briefs. The Alcantara® C.S.A. is organized in two areas. In the Behavioral Tests Lab all evaluation activities occur in relation to product performance; while the Applied Technologies Lab deals with studying and developing new technologies and working processes. The C.S.A. is thus able to deal with material characteristics in order to provide the client with unique applications that truly respond to his or her specific needs.
 
This partnership approach has allowed the company to strengthen its link with the most demanding international companies operating in several sectors, and has brought to surprisingly positive results.
Alcantara®’s capacity to customize its offer on the clients’ requirements has fostered the creation of a true “renaissance” that in the last few years was translated in a successful company image as well as in solid economic results.

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