Manage a supplier change with confidence
Industrial challenge
Replacing a material
Identify, compare and validate an alternative material suited to your product and process.
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The context and
your challenges
Replacing a material involves more than finding an equivalent. It requires understanding the product’s essential properties, anticipating effects on the process and demonstrating that the alternative meets the expected performance.
Your needs
Industrial realities
Reduce reliance on a material
Reduce environmental impact
Maintain product properties
Identify a viable alternative
Our approach
The approach at Filab Genium
Filab Genium supports every part of the value chain in selecting and securing raw materials so they never hold back your development. Using materials databases, close supplier relationships and in-depth knowledge of materials and chemistry, we can quickly identify suitable options for your needs.
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Defining requirements
What operational performance do you expect from your product? How do you use it? Our teams can examine and refine these requirements during a site visit.
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Translating requirements into material specifications
Based on your needs, our teams establish a specification for physicochemical properties, weighted according to the importance of each function.
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Material search & comparison
Using materials databases and our supplier relationships, we provide a list of materials objectively ranked and scored against your specifications.
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Experimental validation
Laboratory-scale testing and support with industrial scale-up.
Know-how
Expertise brought together
Materials science consulting
Materials characterisation
Comparative analysis
Supplier search
Developing validation test protocols
our key strength
Validation through evidence
Candidate materials can be tested and characterised to support a confident replacement decision.
Business value
Customer benefits
Reduce material-change risks
Make confident technical choices
Accelerate qualification of an alternative
Customer case study
Reducing the environmental footprint
A manufacturer wanted to introduce a more sustainable material while maintaining product performance.
Our support identified a suitable alternative and demonstrated its technical feasibility.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to the questions our industrial customers ask most often. Have a question about your project? Our experts will respond within 24 hours.
By analysing the material’s actual function in the product and process to distinguish essential properties from secondary characteristics.
Industrial material replacement
Replacing a material requires understanding its technical functions, identifying available alternatives and demonstrating equivalent performance under actual conditions of use.
Qualifying an alternative material
Qualification combines laboratory characterisation, functional testing and verification of compatibility with the existing manufacturing process.
Reducing supplier dependency
A second material source limits supply risks and strengthens industrial resilience against shortages and price increases.
Sustainable materials and ecodesign
Introducing materials with a lower environmental impact requires an objective performance comparison to preserve finished-product quality.