The Research and Development Department is responsible for technical services to customers, new product development and technical service to the Manufacturing Department. A major emphasis is technical services for Neville's customers. Neville's technical service group strives to develop a close working relationship with its customers by helping them achieve optimum applications performance with Neville's products and provide assistance in solving technical problems. Customer technical service is one of Neville's strengths.

R & D also develops new products for customers and markets Neville presently serve in addition to new opportunities. New product development initiatives center on projects imparting superior performance in adhesives, inks, rubber and coatings applications. A new product line of resins targeted for urethane and epoxy resins is being developed, which are light in color and have hydroxyl or acid functionality.

When the Manufacturing Department experiences difficulty, the R & D Department supplies technical service to assist in the situation. R & D technical service to manufacturing includes raw material qualification, feed blend qualification and assisting in process improvement and problem solving.

The Research & Development department can be contacted by email at labenvenuti@nevchem.com