Innovation at Saint-Gobain

Our passion for materials, our proximity to customers, and our skills allow us to address market’s needs, to anticipate coming needs and to shorten development time.

OUR DEDICATION TO MATERIALS

Materials science, industrial processes understanding and implementation of relevant tests to validate and optimize the performance of products in their end application play an integral part in our expertise. They allow our multidisciplinary team (mechanic, materials science, physics, chemistry, optics and mathematics …) to develop new products which represent an added-value to our customers.

SERVING OUR CUSTOMERS

We are committed to listen carefully to our customers in order to understand their needs and challenges they face. By fully focusing on what our customers want, we develop with them and for them the most adapted solutions at each step of the research project.

Being responsive to the feedbacks of our customers help us evaluating their satisfaction and underline aspects that have to be improved to achieve customer service excellence.

Indeed, to meet and exceed our customer needs and applications, new scientific profiles join our team in research centers: designers, data scientists, sociologists… They bring new approach such as design thinking, new product development, systems and services.

TEAMS AT THE HEART OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Anticipate skills to be developed and explore new areas of technology while caring the future of our planet are in the R&D teams DNA of Saint-Gobain.

To fulfill this vision, we developed new competencies in areas such as data science and electronics, research programs launched related to connected objects, robotics and additive manufacturing.

Thanks to these skills and programs, the R&D teams can support actively support the digital strategy of Saint-Gobain through, for example 4.0 industry topics in order to improve industrial performance or data analysis topics to offer the best quality service to our clients.

As these aspects truly matters to Saint-Gobain, we keep on promoting awareness and training teams in R&D and marketing to the importance of eco-innovation. During the entire course of the project, we highly consider the development of new sustainable solutions and improvement of existing solutions in areas such as health and well-being, energy and climate, water, resources and circular economy.

RESEARCHERS : OUR LIFE BLOOD

We can count on about 3,800 employees working in R&D who are a rich talent pool for Saint-Gobain. To attract and retain these talents, we offer them geographical mobility and evolution opportunities in R&D or in other functions such as marketing or production.
 

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