"The new challenges around sustainability open opportunities for new materials and formulations"

Ruben Subira joined Milliken’s Chemical Business in 2005 and works out of the company’s Barcelona office.

In his more than 15 years at the company he has held several sales roles in different markets from inks and detergency to polyurethane and petrochemicals.

This experience has given Ruben a broad market vision and knowledge which he brings to his role supporting new business developments in the polyolefins field.

Tell us about what you currently do at Milliken, what does it involve?
"My role involves working across the entire polyolefin value chain with partners, converters and specifiers, listening and translating market needs into innovative products and formulations. This is always with the objective to assist in the circularity of materials with a focus on the packaging, housewares and industrial segments."

What do you like most about your position?
"We are facing a paradigm change in the industry. The new challenges requiring the need for sustainability open opportunities for new materials and formulations. It also helps, now more than ever, to work towards a closer dialogue among the different stakeholders across the value chain in order to strengthen partnerships that drive efforts to find common solutions together."

What’s special about Milliken? What do you like about the company?
"Its passion for innovation, its international culture, the curiosity and determination to solve challenges, the partnerships with customers and the will to provide solutions for the market. I’m also proud, for example, that our European Team has recently received the Corporate Customer Centricity Innovation Award. This is a great recognition to the team for the value we deliver as a global and instrumental sustainability partner."

What’s one piece of advice you have for someone looking for a job or internship at Milliken?
"Don’t think twice, join us! The tremendous engagement of the team and the hunger for innovation, together with the values the company supports around integrity, ethics, excellence and sustainability, make Milliken unique in the chemical industry."