materials sourcing advice
Finding the best source is not only about price… but it helps 

Raw materials play a critical role in final product quality and regulatory compliance. Finding a reliable partner who can meet your needs is vital to your strategy.

For many high regulatory products such as toys, food contact, and healthcare it is important to have ‘well-characterised plastic materials’ with ‘no changes’ during the product life cycle. As a brand owner you may not have the regulatory plastics expertise to evaluate the different options.

In healthcare there are more ‘medical grade’ polymers, masterbatches and compounds available. Are all suppliers the same ?

Often the supplier claims may only support part of your needs. Do these grades offer the risk management you need? Are they worth the money?

Installing quality agreements with your suppliers may be part of the answer but tend to contain ‘umbrella’ clauses that cannot be met. You may waste time in finding a workable agreement with delays in your product development.

What we offer:
– Understanding your technical, regulatory, and quality requirements and guiding the specification process.
– Identifying suppliers who can solve a particular technical problem.
– Identifying supplier options that best match your requirements.

Experience:
– 30 plus years in plastics and compounding industries covering the majority of polymer types .
– Multiple years in technology leadership and product development.
– Detailed understanding of regulatory requirements for materials used healthcare industry.
– 10 years of writing and negotiating quality agreements
– Sourcing projects for plastics processing equipment.