Rheology and Extrusion/Compounding for Material Characterization

Playing a crucial role in enhancing the value of materials in almost any industry

Thermo Fisher Scientific understands your need to gain precise control over material shape, texture, and performance characteristics, which leads to innovative materials, improved functionality, cost-effectiveness, and overall product quality.

Confident material characterization

Our technologies help address the challenges of dissolving, taste-masking, dosages, and stability in pharmaceuticals, attaining ideal texture, mouthfeel, and shelf life of food products, getting the right flow of lotions, gels, pastes and other fluids, and ensuring your compounding process is structured and stable.  

 

We help you take your material analysis to the next level while creating the products of tomorrow.

 

Featured products

Our range of cutting-edge rheology and extrusion products are designed to help you address challenges in material development, processing, and manufacturing where texture and taste are critical to success.

Material development

Complete workflow solutions: pilot and small-scale compounders, up- and down-stream components, injection molding tools, and rheometers for polymer melts, DMTA and extensional rheology.

Drug formulation & manufacturing

Meet the challenges in pharmaceuticals of API solubility and processing stability, taste-masking, enterics, and specialized dosage forms.

Food rheology & extrusion

Create, process and monitor food products to have ideal texture, shape, mouthfeel, processability, shelf life and more.

Battery manufacturing

Help ensure efficient screen-printing process and develop new formulations while helping to optimize the manufacturing processes to make batteries safer, more powerful, longer lasting, and more cost-effective.

Cosmetics / personal care

Deliver quality cosmetic and personal care products that have the right feel, texture, and application quickly and consistently.

Support & services

All-you-need training and service for our viscometers, rheometers, torque rheometers, extruders and mixers.

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.