Aspen Materials™ Services

Aspen Materials™ Services, an element of Aspen Research Corporation, provides industry with expert material services that span the product lifecycle. We work with companies to invent and develop new materials and products, improve existing ones, reduce costs, and solve technical challenges. Aspen's production and development facility is equipped with twin-screw compounding technology. Our materials engineers have found ways to reliably produce challenging materials and find ways to streamline processes while simultaneously improving quality and reducing cost. We offer toll production to help our customers avoid fixed costs in purchasing new equipment.

Our material scientists provide our clients with full-service by using Aspen's full-scale analytical laboratory to validate product performance and quality, and conduct investigations to solve product and process problems. We can develop reliable test methods to quantitatively analyze most products and materials. Aspen has extensive experience in determining the long-term performance of products and materials. We combine data analysis, virtual testing, accelerated testing, real-world testing, and the expertise of our material scientists to develop an understanding of how products will perform.

Services

  • Material Selection & Substitution
  • Process Development, Validation & Scale-up
    • Production Cost Modeling
    • Process Streamlining/Optimization
  • Convert Batch from Process to Continuous
  • Quality Control Development & Support
  • Full-scale Production & Custom Tolling
    • Mass customization
    • Primary, secondary or emergency back-up
    • Specialty small lots

Processing Capability

  • Twin-Screw Continuous Compounding
  • Multiple Addition Points
  • Solids
  • Liquids
  • Gases
  • Highly Filled Systems
  • Reactive Systems
    • Condensation reactions
    • MDI-based products
    • Radically initiated polymerization
  • Extrusion

Feed Capability

  • Covey materials into processing equipment from totes, gaylords or bags
  • Crammer feeder
  • Drum and pail unloader
  • Gear and piston pumps
  • K-tron gravimetric feeder
  • Liquid injection
  • Micro-ingredient feeders
  • Side feeders
  • Vent stuffer

Post-Compounding Capability

  • Air knife
  • Classifier
  • Clumber grinder
  • Drier
  • Pellet Cooler
  • Pelletizing
    • Hot-face pelletizing
    • Underwater pelletizing
    • Waterslide
  • Sheet die
  • Strand die

Packaging Capability

  • Drum filling
    • Bottom-fill
    • Follow-fill
    • Top-fill
  • Gaylords
  • Totes

Materials Experience

Thermoplastics

  • ABS
  • Butyl & Polybutadiene rubber
  • Ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers
  • Nitrile rubber
  • Nylon
  • Paraffin & Chloroparaffin
  • Polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE)
  • Polyacrylic Acid
  • Polyamide
  • Polycarbonate
  • Polyethylene
  • Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
  • Polylactic acid (PLA)
  • Polymethyl methacrylate
  • Polypropylene
  • Polystyrene
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
  • Polyvinyl acetate
  • Polyvinylidene flouride (PVDF)
  • Polyvinyl chloride

Thermoset

  • Hot Melt Moisture Cure (HMMC)
  • Epoxidized Polybutene

The capabilities mentioned here are incomplete.  For an up to date and complete list please contact us.

 

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