DSM Engineering Materials has launched Lucidiris, an AI-powered tool designed to predict color and mechanical properties to reduce time to market. Lucidiris enables customers to predict these attributes in polymer compounds upon adding color ingredients and the envelope of potential color space that can be produced within critical mechanical properties. It can also prescribe color ingredients to add to a polymer compound to meet targeted properties.

“Lucidiris fundamentally changes our design-build-test-learn development cycle for the customer applications of our materials,” says Erwin Houben, R&T manager digitization at DSM Engineering Materials. 

“This state-of-the-art AI-based digital tool reinforces our strengths in colored materials development and enables us to take on some tough challenges for reusing circular materials.”

“And there is more to come,” says Angelika Schmidt, global R&T manager of performance polymers at DSM Engineering Materials. 

“Lucidiris is our next step into the digitization of product development. Combining human intelligence with machine learning will enable us to get to successful recipes with much fewer iterations and therefore much shorter development times.” 

DSM is releasing Lucidiris, an AI-powered color prediction tool. Leveraging AI
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DSM expansions 
DSM Engineering Materials, a business group of ingredient powerhouse Royal DSM, recently gave the green light to a collaboration with Foundation Earth, an independent, non-profit organization, to issue front-of-pack Eco Impact scores on food products. 

They will cooperate on eco-labeling food and beverages, particularly animal protein products such as eggs, milk, fish and meat. The move is being marketed to empower consumers to make more sustainable food choices based on transparent and credible information.

This move comes after the Dutch nutrition giant’s food & beverage arm delivered growth with volumes up 3% and strong pricing of 11%, with dairy, baking, beverages and hydrocolloids performing exceptionally well.

The company disclosed that its businesses delivered a “solid performance” in the first nine months of 2022, with sales up 19% and organic sales growth of 10%.