The primary motivation stems from increasing market pressures facing coatings and adhesive manufacturers. They need to optimise products rapidly while balancing performance, efficiency, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. It needs new development approaches to keep the pace and deliver the best outcome for these manufacturers, for our customers. Our automated laboratory addresses the named challenges by dramatically increasing the number, variety, speed, and precision of our formulation tests. The ability to run tens of thousands of tests annually generates structured datasets that our innovators can analyse and compare with historical data, drawing on our long legacy of excellence in the coatings ...