Alejandro Gutierrez

Alejandro Gutierrez

Innovation Manager Van Loon Chemical Innovations

Biography

Alejandro Gutierrez is the Innovation Manager of VLCI (Van Loon Chemical Innovations), an independent laboratory providing innovative and practical R&D services within the formulation industry. With the unique approach by combining applied formulation science with High Throughput (HT) screening, VLCI aims to move the formulation industry to a higher level, creating flexibility, predictability, new insights/products and efficiency.

Alejandro Gutierrez holds a MSc in Chemistry and Postgraduate studies in Innovation Management and New Product/Service Development. He has become a multidisciplinary expert after 10 years of technical experience in formulation science, part of the VLCI team since 2011. Nowadays he is located at VLCI-BCN facility and in charge of VLCI Technology Distribution Centre, helping to connect companies to the most promising formulation technologies and solutions.

VLCI serves a broad range of clients from small companies to large multinationals all over the world, in a wide variety of markets: coatings, personal care, household, agricultural, EOR and polymers. Besides performing projects on customer demand, VLCI is actively pushing (new) formulation technologies in the market, for example HSP (Hansen Solubility Parameters) and HLD-NAC (Hydrophilic Lipophilic Difference – Net Average Curvature). These predictive formulation methods are utilized in combination with HT screening to practically generate and implement data, allowing R&D processes to be way more efficient.

Specialties: ingredients, formulations, coatings, personal care, household, agricultural, EOR, polymers, applied formulation science, Hansen Solubility Parameters, HLD-NAC, solutions, dispersions, emulsions, High Throughput, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, R&D


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