Our reverse engineering and deformulation services support product development, material benchmarking, competitive analysis, quality investigations, supplier evaluation, formulation optimization, and research and development.
By combining chemical analysis, material characterization, microscopy, thermal analysis, spectroscopy, and other laboratory techniques, a product can be systematically evaluated to determine its constituent materials, structural features, formulation characteristics, and performance-related properties.
1. Reverse Engineering
Product reverse engineering is the process of examining an existing product or component to understand its materials, construction, dimensions, functional characteristics, and other measurable attributes.
Depending on the project, reverse engineering may investigate: material composition, component structure, dimensions and tolerances, layer structure, surface characteristics, manufacturing features, polymer or alloy type, coating systems, functional materials, assembly configuration
2. Deformulation
Deformulation is the analytical characterization of a formulated material or product to determine its constituent components and, where possible, their relative amounts.
Deformulation may be applied to: polymers, adhesives, coatings, paints, inks, resins, rubber compounds, sealants, lubricants, composites, chemical formulations, personal and consumer products
other formulated materials
Reverse engineering & deformulation services can help you: competitor product analysis, resolve manufacturer issues, marketing claim verification, product failure analysis, contamination identification raw material analysis, batch-to-batch variation, regulation analysis
Our testing capabilities include:
full identification & quantification of all chemical components
semi-quantitative identification of major and minor ingredients
identification of major or substrate ingredients
quantification of specific components
full deformulation & reformulation (duplication/reverse-engineering)
The experts in our laboratory provide a variety of custom services as your needs and requirements.