Our formulation teams develop application-ready solutions by evaluating new raw materials, optimizing performance, and building formulations aligned to your technical requirements, regulatory needs, and market objectives.
Formulate Better Products, Faster
Accelerate formulation from concept to scale with hands-on expertise across personal care, food and nutrition, additive manufacturing, and coatings. Nagase America works alongside your R&D team to develop, optimize, and commercialize high-performance products.
Your Formulation Partner from Concept to Commercialization
Nagase America is more than a raw material supplier — we are your formulation services partner. Our specialists work directly alongside your R&D team to develop, optimize, and scale formulations that meet precise performance, regulatory, and application requirements.
Our capabilities are anchored in dedicated innovation resources: the Itasca Innovation Lab for personal care, Prinova for food and nutrition, and the Nagase Application Workshop (NAW) for plastics, coatings, and additive manufacturing. Together, these teams provide hands-on formulation development, testing, and validation — helping move your product from concept to commercialization with confidence.
Our Formulation Capabilities
Personal Care
Nagase America’s Itasca Innovation Lab is a personal care formulation hub where our technical managers work directly alongside your R&D team.
We support ingredient selection, formulation strategy, optimization, and scale-up to help bring differentiated products to market.
Capabilities include:
- Formulation development for skin care, hair care, and cosmetic applications
- Concept creation aligned to market trends and consumer insights
- Troubleshooting and application guidance
- Cross-supplier ingredient innovation and formulation blending
- Technical whitepapers and trend-driven formulation concepts
Food & Nutrition
Nagase America’s food and nutrition formulation services are powered by Prinova - a global leader in nutrition ingredients and manufacturing with access to more than 2,000 ingredients and decades of technical expertise.
Prinova’s team works alongside your R&D team from concept through final formulation, delivering products that meet performance, regulatory, and commercialization requirements.
Capabilities include:
- Custom formulation for beverages, gummies, capsules, tablets, powders, and fortified foods
- Trend-led product development across sports nutrition, functional foods, and wellness categories
- Support across ingredient selection, stability challenges, and scale-up execution
Plastics, Coatings, and 3D Printing
Nagase America’s plastics, coatings, and 3D printing formulation capabilities are supported by the Nagase Application Workshop (NAW) — a dedicated R&D facility with application-specific labs.
NAW provides hands-on formulation development, raw material analysis and performance testing across multiple material systems and applications.
Capabilities include:
- Plastics: formulation design, compounding, molded part production, and physical property testing
- Coatings & inks: formulation development, test production, durability, and UV cure evaluation
- 3D printing: formulation design for photopolymers and thermoplastics across FDM, FFF, SLS, and SLA
- Raw material analysis and performance validation
Focus Areas
Ingredient Innovation & R&D
Global Sourcing at Your Fingertips
Nagase America connects your team to a curated network of global supplier partners and specialty ingredients — providing access to thousands of materials across functional categories, supported by regulatory guidance and supply chain expertise.
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