yet2 manages and maintains Colgate-Palmolive’s Open Innovation portal.
Colgate-Palmolive is actively looking for innovation and partnership solutions in the Oral, Personal, Home categories.
Colgate-Palmolive is particularly interested in exploring potential partnerships that would enable it to expand its capabilities in the following platform areas:
- Quantified Health and Analytics
- Advanced Skin Care
- New Delivery Forms
- Naturals/New Sources of active ingredients
- Sustainable Packaging materials and Products
- New Business Models
- Underserved consumers
- Manufacturing of the Future
- Supply Chain Digitization
Specifications:
Colgate-Palmolive is looking for technical solutions/approaches (Oral and Home Care) for:
- Odor control
- Cleansing/soil removal
- Novel/unique skin and mouth feel solutions
- Controlled release/deposition of active ingredients
- Reduction of inflammation
- Antibacterial ingredients/boosters of antibacterial ingredients
- Improved skin and gingival physiology/function (healing)
- Non-peroxide tooth whitening/anti-stains (all approaches)
- Novel formula preservation strategies
- On-the-go solutions
- Self-cleaning solutions
- Quantified health (predictive and diagnostics)
- Oral Care solutions for individuals with specific health needs (geriatric, diabetics, etc)
Colgate-Palmolive is looking for technical solutions/approaches (Personal and Skin care) for:
- Future of Sun Care: Ingredients that can enhance current approved monograph actives (US/EU)
- Anti-pigmentation: Alternative ingredients to hydroquinones, peels
- Anti-wrinkle: Solutions providing fast results for anti-ageing benefits
- Alternative chemistries to aluminum salts for sweat protection
- Personal Care solutions for individuals with specific health needs (geriatric, diabetics, etc)
Colgate-Palmolive is looking for technical solutions/approaches (Packaging) for:
- Advanced Dispensing Systems: Structures enabling superior UX via improved application, dosage, evacuation, or cleanliness
- Degradable / Compostable: Capable of degrading to benign/beneficial materials within specific timeframe & conditions
- eCommerce Packaging Solutions for Shipping: Packaging designed for eCommerce channel with a focus on transit
- Fully Recyclable: Packaging which can be reprocessed into new materials at scale
- Renewable Source Materials for Packaging: Substances that can be replenished faster than extraction demand. Includes bio- & non-plastics
- Reusable / Durable: Structures that can be used for multiple full use cycles
- Advanced Product Packaging: Packaging systems that enable improved stability and product performance
- Reduced and Affordable Packaging: Solutions that minimize and eliminate the amount of packaging materials or that enable very low price point
- Intelligent/Connected: Methods to communicate directly with users via packaging systems
- Improved Manufacturability: Improvements to processability, speed, & efficiency from a manufacturing & filling perspective
- Predictive Testing Capabilities: Processes and systems enabling improved forecasting of packaging performance testing results [e.g. shelf life, top-load, etc.]
- Personalized Packaging: Customizable Packaging Solutions
Colgate-Palmolive is looking for solutions/approaches (Manufacturing and Logistics) for:
- Zero touch manufacturing for: Material movement, Quality, Changeover
- Flexible & modular manufacturing
- Connected Worker: Digital workflow and manufacturing systems
- Machine Learning for predictive quality, predictive maintenance
- Augmented reality for manufacturing and learning
- Energy, Health and Safety, Warehouse and Logistics Monitoring & Automation
- Advanced sensing technology
- Robotics Process Automation for Supply Chain