04 Feb Ready-to-Use R&D Formulations: SPECIFIC POLYMERS’ New Sales Initiative for 2025

SPECIFIC POLYMERS is a research and development company dedicated to the design, development, and production of functional monomers, polymers, building blocks, and high-performance materials. 

Chemicals for Research and the Development of Tomorrow’s Materials 

Among these products, several stand out due to their growing interest within the scientific community. As a result, we are actively working to expand our production capabilities through collaborations with our network of toll-manufacturers. Currently, most of our R&D products are produced in our laboratories at scales ranging from tens to hundreds of grams, even up to a kilogram for some specific references. However, some of our most promising products, particularly those related to environmental applications, energy, and high-performance materials, are being transferred, or are in the process of being transferred, to pilot-scale production. This transition will allow us to reach production levels of up to 50 kg, helping our customers and partners to conduct application-representative demonstrator evaluation. 

A Tailor-Made Formulation Design Capability for Materials 

We specialize in various types of formulations, including structural resins, functional coatings, and adhesives, utilizing chemistries such as epoxy, phthalonitrile, acrylate, vinylester, unsaturated polyester, poly(hydroxy)urethane, and polyurethane and many more – see details)  Since the early beginning of this activity, we have been designing tailored formulations through both industrial and collaborative projects. Our approach most often begins with a detailed analytical assessment of the formulations and products currently used by our clients, allowing us to identify the key performance criteria that will serve as the foundation for future developments. Our expertise in physico-chemical, rheological, and thermo-mechanical characterizations, combined with our in-depth understanding of structure-property-performance relationships, guides us in formulating targeted solutions. For specific topics, our material modeling expertise can further support this process. Using advanced computational methods and molecular dynamics (MD), we simulate and analyze materials at the molecular level, accelerating the discovery of new materials and optimizing existing ones. 

As a next step, our team of engineers and PhDs in formulation and materials chemistry follows an iterative co-development process with our clients. This application-driven and client-centric methodology starts by screening initial developments based on key characteristics and tests conducted jointly with our partners. Once the most promising solutions are identified, we scale up to larger material quantities for real-world application trials, and concluding with final optimizations. For our developments, the main criteria always relate to both the processing methods used (RTM, prepreg, AFP, pultrusion,  coating deposition processes, etc.) and the specific application constraints. These specifications remain central at each steps of our development.