This case study highlights how ITRI Innovation helped a polymer compounding company to improve their formulation and carry out fire testing to validate the required performance characteristics.

1. POLYMER COMPOUNDING
& FIRE TESTING…

2. The Client
A manufacturer of fillers and additives
for polymers

3. The challenge
 To develop a new formulation that
achieves the performance
characteristics required by their clients

4. The problem
 Timescales. Their previous process
involved sending raw materials to a
compounder to produce a batch of
pellets, which were then sent to an
injection moulding company for
manufacture of test samples. These
then underwent the necessary testing.

5. The Solution
Advice on formulations Compounding of additives, filler
and polymer to create pellets
Injection moulding to produce
samples for fire and mechanical
property testing
 Advice on formulations,
compounding, injection
moulding and testing (fire, tensile
and impact), & repeated…
Cone calorimetry & UL-94 Fire
Testing & Tensile and Impact
Testing

6. The Outcome
 The client managed to achieve their
target levels of product performance
and therefore launch the product, in a
much shorter timescale than had
previously been possible.