Slashing Inefficiencies in Consumer Product Quality with NIR Spectroscopy

Consumer products are complex mixtures that rely on careful formulations and precision chemistry to deliver the desired properties. These properties can be chemical (such as the peroxide content of an oxidizer), physical (such as polymer viscosity) or fungible (such as the reserve acidity of a mixture). Measuring these and other types of properties typically requires a fleet of instrumentation and is often limited to raw material input and final product testing. These testing throughput limits place a high burden on the analytical lab, making product improvement difficult.  Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is a laboratory tool that can relieve the throughput limitation and be deployed to multiple products and problems at the same time. 

Watch this webinar to hear Alex Mattingly, Product Specialist at Chemlink Laboratories, explain how he uses NIR to address manufacturing challenges and increase production efficiency. He will show how he implemented NIR and developed the analytical methods to replace complex wet-chemical assays. Lenzi Williams, Spectroscopy Product Specialist, will give an overview of NIR spectroscopy, including features of the new OMNIS NIR, and explain how the fundamentals of this technique make it well-suited for formulated products.