Polyfect Solutions Limited
Polyfect is a spin out from Loughborough’s Institute of Polymer Technology & Materials Engineering.
Polyfect has technology which demonstrates the ability both to reduce the cost of manufacturing plastic products and improve the quality of the plastic from which they are made. The technology achieves this through the highly efficient incorporation of functional fillers into plastics. Functional fillers are the materials which are used to change the properties of a plastic, for example, to make it non-static, to create gas barriers or change its pigmentation.
Conventional processes for incorporating functional fillers in plastics achieve far from optimal results with a significant proportion of the material being poorly dispersed. This necessitates the use of large quantities of filler to achieve the desired properties. The fillers are typically more expensive than the virgin plastic and also degrade the mechanical properties of the plastic. Polyfect’s technology allows significantly less filler to be used, resulting in both cost savings and quality improvements as well as having a positive environmental benefit.
Polyfect’s technology has the potential to enable the mass production of:
- Cheaper plastics using smaller quantities of expensive functional fillers
- Plastics with improved mechanical properties
- New classes of materials with highly attractive properties