Whether a customer or a potential customer, our Microfluidics team provides attention and education to each challenge. All lab challenges are asked a full range of questions to best understand each problem and ensure goals are aligned. Our team provides a detailed report of all test results and can be trusted to adhere to a strict confidentiality agreement:
Our Microfluidics Technology lab offers the following services:
- Supporting the development of customers' new products using feasibility tests.
- Identifying improvements to existing manufacturing processes and/or established products.
- Proof of concept for process scaling with a wide range of equipment, from lab-scale to pilot-scale and production-scale.
- Ability to trial equipment before purchasing.
The Microfluidics Lab offers three kinds of tests to best serve our customers and potential customers.
Proof of concept test
Designed to educate our customers on the capabilities of a Microfluidizer® processor.
Potential customers provide a formulation to be processed under varying conditions. By modifying the type of Interaction Chamber™, processing pressure, and number of passes, the processing results are impacted. Measuring particle size as the base of comparison, these changes provide an opportunity to showcase the Microfluidizer technology’s superior results.
Process optimization test
Designed to attain a customer’s specific result.
Our lab application team work diligently with customers to modify formulations to achieve specific objectives and results for a customer’s nano technology challenge. By varying the processing conditions, exact results can be achieved.
Scale-up test
Microfluidics scalability is a key benefit and this test provides an opportunity to prove this benefit on larger volumes.
In performing this test, our lab team splits a large batch of material provided by our customer. Some material is tested on either a lab or pilot scale Microfluidizer® processor and the remainder, of the material, is tested on our production scale Microfluidizer® processor. This allows our application team to prove that by processing under the same conditions (such as the Interaction Chamber™, pressure and number of passes) the exact results will be achieved whether it’s processed on a lab scale or production scale model.
