By Helen Gilbert

Technology has potential to create "significant savings" for polymer processors.

July 14, 2008 – Polyfect Solutions, which says it can reduce the cost, and improve the quality of manufacturing plastics products using functional fillers technology has secured £400,000 funding.

Polyfect has been spun out from the University’s Institute of Polymer Technology & Materials Engineering. The firm was created by Ipso Management, which is supplying the funding, under its Framework Agreement with Loughborough University.

The technology will be licensed by Polyfect to operators in the plastics supply chain to integrate into their existing processes.

The technology achieves savings and quality improvements by incorporating functional fillers – the materials which are used to change the properties of a plastic such as changing its pigmentation – into plastics.

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