Identify an alternative to an existing material
Court-appointed
Material selection
Filab Genium helps manufacturers identify, compare and select materials suited to their needs, from defining selection criteria to validating candidate solutions.
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The context and
your challenges
Material selection often determines a product’s performance, durability and feasibility. With so many solutions available, identifying the one that truly meets application, process and operating-environment constraints can be difficult.
Your needs
Industrial realities
Replace a regulated material
Develop a new product
Diversify your supply sources
Replace a material that is no longer available
Improve a product’s performance or service life
Understand why an existing material fails to meet performance expectations
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.
01
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.
02
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.
03
Material search & comparison
Using materials databases and our supplier relationships, we provide a list of materials objectively ranked and scored against your specifications.
04
Experimental validation
Laboratory-scale testing and support with industrial scale-up.
Know-how
Expertise brought together
A material cannot be selected independently of its use. This approach goes beyond identifying what might work to determine what is appropriate for your application.
Materials and chemistry expertise
Understanding industrial processes
Scientific and literature data
Supplier technical data
Regulatory and environmental constraints
Performance criteria defined with your teams
Material selection support using Granta Selector
our key strength
Validation through evidence
When available data is insufficient to distinguish between solutions, Filab Genium can draw on Filab’s analytical and experimental laboratory capabilities. Candidate materials can be characterised, compared or subjected to specific tests to verify the hypotheses. This continuity between consulting, selection and experimental validation progressively strengthens the decision and reduces the risks of choosing a new material.
Business value
Customer benefits
Make material choices based on objective criteria
Reduce the risk of incompatibility between material, product and process
Identify suitable alternatives faster
Support technical decisions with objective evidence for your teams and partners
Validate solutions before industrial implementation
Accelerate development and substitution projects
Customer case study
Developing a new product
While developing a new product, a company needed to identify a material meeting several performance and operating requirements.
A step-by-step selection process narrowed the list of candidates before the most suitable solutions were experimentally validated.
3-4
months per project
2
products meeting the requirement as a minimum
100 000
materials available in the database
Are you looking for the right material for your application?
Need to replace a material, develop a new product or improve performance? Speak with our consultants.
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.
Based on your operational expectations, we develop a specification for physicochemical properties, weighted according to the importance of each product function.
Material selection for industry
Material choice determines an industrial product’s performance, durability and cost. A structured selection process allows objective comparison of candidates against actual operating constraints.
Material specifications
Translating a functional need into measurable, weighted physicochemical properties is the key to reliable selection: it makes material comparisons objective and traceable.
Alternative materials and sourcing
Unavailability, supplier dependency or regulatory changes: identifying a qualified alternative material limits shortage risks and supports production continuity.
Experimental validation of materials
Characterisation, comparative testing and accelerated ageing confirm a material’s actual behaviour before industrial implementation.