MIAMI, FL, November 7, 2025 – Please join us in congratulating L’Oréal and SLAM on their recognition as one of two finalists, receiving High Honors at this year’s SEFA Lab of the Year Awards competition!
It’s with great pride and immense pleasure that we celebrate the accomplishments of all L’Oréal and SLAM team members who contributed to achieving this remarkable milestone.
This year, the top honor was awarded to Emory University’s Health Sciences Research Building II, designed by HOK. SLAM extends sincere congratulations to Emory University and HOK for their outstanding achievement and well-deserved recognition.
The award recognized L’Oréal’s Research & Innovation (R&I) Center in Clark, New Jersey, a facility that strengthens the company’s capacity to advance the scientific and technological research behind products and services designed to meet the diverse beauty expectations of consumers in the U.S. and around the world.
With the R&I Center focused on beauty innovations across hair, skin, and makeup categories, L’Oréal continues to pioneer new discoveries through strategic scientific fields, like Green Sciences and Beauty Tech.
As the international organization that annually bestows the industry’s most prestigious laboratory award, the Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA) received more than 30 submissions for consideration this year. Of these, 10 deserving organizations were accepted into the competition, with two finalists ultimately emerging: L’Oréal/SLAM and HOK.
From the very beginning, this year’s SEFA competition required an extraordinary strategic effort—one that positioned L’Oréal as an organization with unique project drivers, a rich history, unmatched industry leadership, and an end-to-end product development process (from discovery to retail shelves), all under one roof.
The Lab of the Year project has been a significant undertaking with outstanding results that have made a lasting impact on L’Oréal. As the company’s community fully embraces the new R&I Center, employees are thriving in this state-of-the-art facility. To learn more about the project, read the case study, outlining the project’s details and objectives.
Congratulations to L’Oréal and SLAM on this exceptional recognition and for representing innovation, collaboration, and excellence on a global stage.
