Henkel, a German consumer goods manufacturer with its North American headquarters in Rocky Hill, has broken ground on converting a two-story office building in Trumbull into a new research and development facility.
The Dusseldorf-based company announced Monday that the Henkel Center for Research & Development, at 9 Trefoil Drive, is its largest non-manufacturing capital investment in North America in the past decade, with a total value of more than $70 million.
The 45,000-square-foot, two-story building will bring together Henkel’s North America Consumer Brands R&D teams, currently working across three separate Connecticut locations, into one site. It will join two other Henkel buildings, at 4 and 30 Trefoil Drive, on a 10-acre campus containing more than 110,000 square feet of interior space and employing more than 200 workers in 27 laboratories and three pilot plants.
Scheduled to open at the end of 2027, the Henkel facility will feature new amenities, including a cafeteria, EV charging, outdoor workspaces, and modern collaboration zones.
Henkel, which has a consumer brands regional office in Stamford, bought the building for $4.9 million in December.
