COLUMBUS, OH - Hexion Inc., in collaboration with Innoget, is offering an exclusive opportunity for individuals and teams to submit technical proposals based on new renewable resins and raw materials that can be used to formulate more sustainable, lower yellowing coatings. The Open Innovation challenge, “Create the Future with Lower Yellowing, Renewable Resins and Raw Materials,” focuses on leveraging innovative technologies and formulations for novel coating applications that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through longer life and single layer coatings.

“Hexion is committed to developing products that meet our customers’ needs, enhance safe applications, protect the environment and benefit society,” said Craig Rogerson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hexion. “The innovation challenge provides an opportunity for thought leaders within the open innovation community, research centers, universities, individual research and development leaders, and companies of all sizes to help commercialize renewable solutions for lower yellowing technologies. By working together to accelerate innovation, we can accelerate the development of more sustainable high-performance resins for anticorrosive coating applications.”