Lubrizol Accelerates Specialty Chemicals R&D with AI and Digital Foundations
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Specialty chemicals manufacturer Lubrizol is building digital foundations that connect business processes, modern data platforms, and cloud infrastructure to help its R&D teams validate ideas faster and develop more sustainable materials. The company uses a 'fusion team' model in which scientists, data scientists, and IT staff work together, leveraging digital modeling to evaluate more formulations while exploring starch- and corn-based alternative materials. Its VP of IT, Girish Rao, expects AI, automation, digital twins, and connected data to gradually converge, making labs smarter and factories more efficient. On November 9, 2026, MIT Technology Review reported on the company's use of AI and digitalization to innovate specialty chemicals R&D; this is currently the only public report, with no follow-up developments yet.
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Specialty chemicals maker Lubrizol is building a digital foundation that connects business processes, a modern data platform and cloud infrastructure, helping R&D teams validate ideas faster and develop more sustainable materials. Through fused teams of scientists, data scientists and IT staff, the company uses digital modeling to evaluate more formulations and explore starch and corn-based alternative materials. IT vice president Girish Rao expects AI, automation, digital twins and connected data to converge gradually, making labs smarter and plants more efficient.
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