Materials Formulation
In the increasingly competitive consumer healthcare market, ensuring the safety and performance of your offering is critical in gaining consumer trust. Materials formulation and characterisation play a huge part in ensuring not only safety and performance, but also adherence to legal requirements and environmental concerns, as well as impacting upon product and processing costs.
Our knowledge of material properties and materials formulation, coupled with our analytical capabilities, make CERAM the ideal partner for:
- Raw material analysis - fit for purpose & legal compliance testing
- Materials formulation and application - advice on how properties can affect and improve performance
- Materials selection - sourcing cost-effective alternatives without compromising quality
- Novel material formulation development
- Dry powder characterisation - particle size, surface area, porosity (granulates), strength
- Powder suspension characterisation - rheology, zeta potential, electrolyte concentrations (ICP, AA)
- Product design and development - validation of performance and development consultancy
- Failure analysis - identifying packaging failures
- Environmental analysis - consultancy regarding the sustainability of the product and process.
We offer:
- materials and surface characterisation, including chemical analysis, physical testing, microstructural and surface analysis, to ensure correct material selection and optimise material performance
- contract and bespoke research & development