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Updating innovation﻿ in cleaning

One of the first events at the American Cleaning Institute’s weeklong annual conference is a ceremony at which the consumer-product maker Henkel hands out awards to its raw material suppliers for innovations and other contributions. One of the last events of the conference, which took place late last month in Orlando, Florida, is an innovation showcase at which raw material suppliers reveal new products. In between those bookends are countless meetings where cleaning product makers and their suppliers bang out agreements about prices, logistics, and other nitty-gritty of industrial commerce. Still, innovation is a theme that runs through the conference, and in interviews with C&EN, company executives made clear that they are changing how they innovate and who they innovate with. Henkel’s first prize for laundry and home care innovation went to a new enzyme, licheninase, that the Danish enzyme maker Novozymes developed for Henkel’s Somat automatic dish-washing detergent line.