Smithers
Who we are
Backed by proven expertise and deep industry experience, Smithers’ portfolio of trusted scientific services and market insights provide you with clarity, and confidence, for the decisions you make.
We provide extensive independent expertise to organisations working with and developing plastics and other materials across a range of supply chains including packaging, medical device, industrial, energy, transport and consumer goods.
What we do
Smithers’ experts will help you:
- Test and evaluate product and material performance to international standards with our ISO17025 accredited laboratories.
- Obtain global regulatory compliance for your product, material or additive.
- Quickly resolve technical issues and failures and implement longer-term improvements.
- Reduce the lead time and risk of your R&D and NPD with full outsourced support.
- Develop and deliver on sustainability initiatives
- Gain market insights and identify opportunities though market studies or bespoke research programmes.
Find out more
Visit: www.smithers.com
Email: [email protected]
Call: +44 (0)1939 250383
Tailored support from the experts:
Plastics expertise: formulation to application support
At Smithers we understand the real-world service-life and environmental challenges polymer materials face. Our experts can help you predict, manage and improve the performance of your polymer-based material or product whilst ensuring its safety and compliance. We truly understand polymer science and through our ISO 17025 accredited facilities in the UK and USA, we offer a range of material testing, whole product testing and technical consulting services.
Services include:
- Design evaluation and optimisation
- Materials selection, testing and specification checks
- Long term property prediction
- Product durability and performance testing
- Compliance and certification
- Failure and technical investigation
- Batch conformance testing
- Expert witness and dispute resolution
- Support with sustainability and use of recycled material
- Training and professional development
Sustainability: practical support to put sustainability into action
Smithers provides expertise in materials, packaging, testing and compliance to help you develop and execute on sustainability initiatives:
- Achieving recyclability by design
- Understanding regulations and directives
- Sustainable material performance:
- Sourcing and supply chain audits
- Selection and characterisation
- Comparative physical testing
- Chemical analysis
- Food contact safety
- Packaging lightweighting
- Shipment optimisation and damage reduction
- Sustainability gap analysis
- End of life: due diligence and waste reduction
Packaging: helping you develop safe, compliant and high-performance packaging
Smithers provides world-class packaging expertise you can trust. We can help you develop safe, compliant and high-performance packaging whilst overcoming environmental and supply chain challenges. Our market experts will help solve your strategic and business challenges with incisive market intelligence, consulting and global conferences.
Our ISO 17025 accredited independent laboratories provide comprehensive support for every packaging challenge. We test to a wide variety of International Standards including ISO, ASTM, Tappi, BS and ISTA, and are also part of the Amazon APASS accreditation scheme. Our experts will help you comply with regulatory requirements, resolve packaging issues, optimise performance and meet specifications.
Services include:
- Packaging materials selection and evaluation
- Primary pack testing
- Print quality and durability
- Specification checks
- Food contact compliance
- Failure and technical investigations
- Distribution testing
- Support with sustainability and use of recycled materials
