Research and technology provides the foundation for NOVA Chemicals and sets us apart from our competition. NOVA Chemicals is committed to research and development. We have increased annual research and development spending by 55% since our start up in 1998. Through the diversity of our research and technology sites, we are able to create value for our customers that is unique to our products.  

We know technology is fundamental to maximizing the value of our customers' businesses as well as our own and so are fully committed to maintaining world-class personnel and research facilities. With our constant quest for excellence, technology, whether acquired outside the company or developed within, plays a crucial role in propelling us beyond the competition.   

By continually advancing our technology, we can:

• Develop Products: Leveraging our knowledge helps us to successfully develop new solutions for our customers in breakthrough chemical technology.
• Tailor Products: Our customers do not all require the same properties from our products. We've found that by working closely with them, we're often able to adjust or tailor our products specifically to their needs.
• Improve Products: We direct much of our energy toward improving the products we provide and the processes we use to make them. With focused effort we strive to do it faster, better and less expensively.
• Develop Applications: In many cases, we can save customers money and help them improve their end products through the development of innovative applications using our resins. We work very closely with customers to combine our collective expertise to design and implement new or better applications.