1st Source Research serves the outsourcing research needs of the coatings, adhesives, building products, adhesives, textiles, cosmetics, and bio-based materials industries. We are a unique company that aids our customers in understanding the needs of the marketplace, developing new products, and performing advanced analytical techniques to add insight to your chemical processes. Since innovation is the key to surviving in the rapidly changing chemical industry we aid our customers in balancing their research portfolios so that they contain a number of long and short term projects that allow for incremental and breakthrough technologies. Recently we have added engineering and operations management consulting support with focus on facility acquisitions, contract manufacture arrangements, greenfield plant design, capacity expansion projects, productivity improvements and supply chain management. 1st Source Research brings a significant level of expertise to the industry.