Run biomaterials on your existing lines with fewer failed trials.
Biomaterials are known for narrow processing windows. They’re sensitive to heat, shear and moisture, and a grade that runs well in R&D scale-up can lose melt strength or stretch cycle times at full production speed. Whether you’re injection moulding, extruding or running blown or cast film, every failed trial costs line time. MAPS pairs a platform that screens materials against your process with a team of processing experts, so fewer trials fail on the line.
Where biomaterials fail on the line
Trials that fail on the machine
One grade that won’t run costs a full shift and a batch of scrap.
How MAPS helps: Spec screens every candidate against your process parameters before a pellet reaches the hopper, and shows why the rest were ruled out.
Datasheets that don’t translate
Each supplier tests differently, often on a process unlike yours.
How MAPS helps: Compare grades within a material class side by side, including drying needs, temperature windows and additive packages.
Scale-up surprises
What worked in R&D drifts at production speed.
How MAPS helps: The Formulation tool tunes the blend and processing window for your line, with design of experiments that tells you which trials to run first.
Committing tooling blind
New moulds, dies and line changes are expensive to get wrong.
How MAPS helps: The digital twin simulates how your formulation runs on your line (flow, cooling, warpage and cycle time) before you commit capital.
Customers looking for sustainable solutions
Brands are pushing their sustainability targets and EPR costs down the supply chain to you.
How MAPS helps: Find materials that meet your customer’s spec and your line’s limits in one search, then request samples directly.
One source at scale
A single supplier is a procurement risk.
How MAPS helps: Multiple qualified suppliers per material class, where the market has them, so you can scale with confidence.
What gets checked first
1. Process window
Will it run on the equipment you already have, at your temperatures, drying capacity and residence times, without new screws or tooling?
2. Performance against your current resin
How does it compare on cycle time, scrap rate and part or film properties before you book line time?
3. Supply you can scale on
Consistent lot to lot, with reliable lead times and more than one qualified source.
Why manufacturers choose MAPS
Built for biomaterials
Simulation and informatics tools are designed around conventional plastics. MAPS is trained on biomaterials and their processing behaviour.
Screened against your process
Material catalogues list everything. MAPS shows only the grades that fit your equipment and targets, with pricing considerations beside each one.
Useful from day one
Most informatics platforms need years of your own data and a data science team. MAPS works on your first search.
The open market
Resin suppliers recommend their own grades as drop-in replacements. MAPS compares grades across suppliers, so you choose what runs best on your line.
Let our team find the biomaterials that work with your existing equipment.
Tell us your equipment, your incumbent resin and your targets, and see which biomaterials fit before you book line time.