• Unilever signed a Partnership Growth Charter with Galaxy Surfactants, extending a 45-year supplier relationship into a co-invested innovation partnership.
• Collaboration targets next-generation surfactant chemistries to speed product upgrades across home care, personal care, beauty, and wellbeing categories.
• Charter also prioritizes supply resilience via bio-based inputs, lower-carbon technologies, strategic capacity investment, long-term planning.
• Parties plan shared capacity in North America to locate production closer to consumers.
• Cost competitiveness to be pursued through value-chain innovation and closer technical collaboration.

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