r+d capabilities
RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT CENTER.
Our annual investment in product research and innovative design accounts for about 7.5% of the Group's revenue, maintaining the company’s ahead of the competition in development and innovation of significant beauty products in the world.
RECOGNITION
Quality, R&D, Innovation, and Service (QRIS) is the working DNA rooted in each Thai Ho employee. Therefore, our annual investment in product research and innovative design accounts for about 7.5% of the Group's revenue, maintaining the company’s profile ahead of the competition in development and innovation of significant beauty products in the world.
In the past 38 years, Thai Ho Group has won several patents in various scientific categories, research, and results. We have a successful record of bankable products that stand out from the competition; this is why both Legacy and indie brands look to us for innovations.
Thai Ho Group has twice won the Shanghai High-Tech Enterprise approved by the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. In 2017, the company won the COSME TECH manufacturing award from the China Beauty Expo Committee; in 2018, it won the Best Research and Development Award of Meiyi Award (the highest award) from the China Beauty Expo Committee.
FORMULATION
In May 2016, the R+D center in Japan was established to develop and innovate formulas, technical processes, and source preferred raw materials. Our facility in Japan employs leading R+D engineers and senior consultants who specialize in skincare, clean formulas, and high-performing color and, powder formulas. Thus building a foundation for Thai Ho to enter the Japanese market at the top of the competition.
FUTURE LEADERS
Since 2018, Thai Ho has signed a cooperation agreement with the Department of Cosmetics and Cosmetics of Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan to cultivate future R+D talents, guide outstanding graduates to enter Thai Ho Group, and establish a platform for industry-university cooperation for future R+D talents. Since 2014, THG has championed the importance of R&D technology, under the trade name Lixin Biotech Cosmetics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
LAB CENTER
Thai Ho Group established a high-standard, national-level testing and control center in Shanghai, know as “ the testing center”). It was established in 2006 with an area of 500 square meters. It has. a microbiology laboratory, instrument analysis room, chemistry laboratory, physics laboratory, and stability and compatibility laboratory.
THE TESTING CENTER
The testing center is a state-certified laboratory accredited by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), and is qualified to have third-party testing authority certification and to issue authoritative test reports. It is one of two testing centers in the makeup industry in Mainland China that have this certification which allow us to provide exceptional services to our clients
To improve the ability of inspection management, our testing center established and implemented a pristine management system in accordance with CNAS-CL01 “Guidelines for Accreditation of Testing and Calibration Laboratories” (equivalent to ISO/IEC17025), and was assessed as a state-certified laboratory by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) in December 2009.The test reports issued by the laboratory certified by CNAS are applicable to more than 100 countries around the world.
Advances
The testing center currently owns inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), microwave digestion instrument (CEM-MARS6) imported from the US, biochemical incubators, high temperature and high humidity incubators, ultrasonic cleaners, centrifuges, vertical electrothermal pressure steam sterilizers and other instruments worth about 13 million Yuan. Test items include heavy metal content, preservatives, sunscreens, total number of colonies, mold, yeast, escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, preservative challenge test, pH, moisture content, breaking force, conductivity, acid value, saponification value, peroxide value, and so on.
EXPERTISE
Lab inspectors have rich experience in testing. They have participated in various training activities organized by China Certification & Accreditation Institute, Shanghai Songjiang Special Equipment Supervision and Inspection Institute, Beijing Agilent Technologies Co Ltd, Shanghai East China Measurement and Inspection Office, and etc., and passedability test of pathogenic bacteria, heavy metal and preservative of cosmetics organized by China CFAPA Testing Technology Company Limited of Dalian in 2017, review and measurement of total bacterial number andheavy metal lead and arsenic in cosmetics in 2015, review and measurement of heavy metal lead and arsenic measurement in cosmetics organized by Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014, ability test of heavy metal mercury in cosmetics organized by Liaoning Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau in 2013, high standard laboratory certification by Estee Lauder Asia Pacific Quality Center in 2011, and etc.
Thai Ho Group has obtained CNAS National Laboratory Certification since 2009, providing quality assurance for global brands and high-end professional brands in China. ThaiHo Group is one of the two companies that have state-certified testing centers in cosmetics industry in China, which provides strong quality assurance and marketing support for customers across the globe and China.
OUR FACILITIES
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, WE CAN MAKE IT.
Thai Ho Group's state of the art facilities in Shanghai, Taiwan, Japan and the US house sophisticated machinery imported from Sweden, Italy, Korea, amongst our advanced manufacturing regions. Our technical expertise and foresight in development set us apart from the competition with our in-house series of patent technology, designed and engineered by us.
As a mass volume manufacturer for global legacy brands, THG pioneered the evolution from a traditional assembly line to a full-line automatic production that provides higher fulfillment capacity. Thai Ho Group's ability to expand its manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure across Asia and the United States is a reflection of its integrity.
If you can dream it, we can make it. This has been our commitment to our clients for the past 40 years. .