Dispersion analysis that answers the question.
We don’t just hand you raw data — we explain what the numbers mean, so you know what to change, which formulation wins, and whether it will hold.
Whether you have a proven formulation that just needs reliable shelf-life testing, or a complex system failure that requires deep fundamental investigation, we provide the exact level of support you need.
Most dispersion problems are invisible until they aren't.
A product that looks fine on day one separates in the warehouse. An emulsion that passed every check creams in the field. A competitor's version holds and yours doesn't, and no one can say why. The measurements that answer these questions exist. Performing them takes specialized instruments; interpreting them so they’re of value to you takes experience. We bring both.
Does any of this sound familiar?
An emulsion that creams too fast — or worse, breaks. A suspension that settles into a hard cake that won’t stir back in. A product that looked fine the day it was made but came apart in transit or in the warehouse — or a competitor’s version that holds when yours doesn’t. You need to know how long it will really hold, and why it’s failing, without waiting months to find out.
A new formulation that has to be proven before it ships or scales — shelf life predicted, candidates ranked, particle size and stability pinned down. Or an existing one that has to get better: a cleaner label, a lower cost, improved performance, a new ingredient, a longer shelf life — without giving up the quality your customers already trust.
A homogenizer not running at its optimal settings — pressure, temperature, and the number of passes set by feel rather than tuned to the sweet spot that could give you a better product at lower cost.
Foam in the wrong place — disrupting a process, overflowing a tank, slowing a line, and a defoamer you need to choose or prove. Or foam in the right place: a shampoo or face wash whose lather just isn’t rich enough, doesn’t last long enough, or doesn’t look the way customers expect.
Stability defined by particle size — a mean, measured batch after batch, watched for drift. The numbers and the product never quite line up: sometimes the mean creeps up, sometimes the tail thickens, and the size alone can’t tell you whether that’s aggregation, slow coagulation, or real coalescence — or just batch-to-batch variation — in proteins, pigments, and emulsions that were supposed to be stable.
Particles where you don’t want them — off a filter, through a membrane, in an injectable or a fluid that has to stay clean. No one has ever actually counted the contaminants that get through — the fluid is assumed clean because nothing obvious shows up. Until a customer complains about the odd bad batch that no one can explain.
Different industries, different products — food and beverage, coatings, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, nanomaterials — but underneath, it’s the same question: what is your dispersion doing, and why?
This is how we answer the question.
Stability & shelf-life
Whether the product you made today is still that product at month three, month six, or year one — and how much change you can live with along the way. Measured with the rigor and the method the product demands — real time, accelerated, or both — to rank candidates, benchmark competitors, and predict shelf-life. Colloidal change starts long before the eye can see it; we read it early, and tell you whether a change is good news or a warning — and why.
Particle size
How big the droplets and particles in your product really are — and whether they’re growing. Full distributions, not just a mean, from four independent sizing techniques matched to the sample — enough to tell aggregation, flocculation, and coalescence apart, and real change from batch-to-batch noise.
Rheology & flow
How your product pours, pumps, sprays, and holds its structure — flow curves and viscosity profiles, yield point determination, and oscillatory tests that show whether a formulation has the structure to keep particles suspended or is destined to settle.
Particle counting
Single-particle counting and sizing in liquids — how many there are and how big, one particle at a time, at levels where routine tests say ‘nothing detected.’ One continuous measurement spans a wide range of sizes and concentrations, catching rare contaminants and much heavier loads alike.
Foam & interfacial behavior
Foam, measured rather than eyeballed — how readily it builds, how long it holds, how fast it drains, and how to control its stability. Underneath, the first-principles interfacial science — dynamic surface and interfacial tension, interfacial rheology — for the emulsion or foam that needs to be understood, not just sized.
The experience to put it together
Measurements alone aren’t answers. Thirty years of dispersion problems across sectors stand behind every interpretation — knowing which measurement answers your question, what the numbers mean, and what to do next.
A number without context is just a number. The value is in knowing what it means.
The numbers never arrive alone. Every result comes with a plain-language read — what the data say, why, and what to do next. Behind that read: a PhD in colloid chemistry and three decades of dispersion work across specialty chemicals, coatings, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and nanomaterials. Odds are, we’ve seen a system like yours before.
It starts with a conversation — and ends with one.
Tell us the problem — or the goal — and we’ll tell you whether a measurement can get you there. When your report is ready, it doesn’t just arrive in your inbox — we go through it together: what the data say, what they mean, and what to do next. Confidential by default; NDA on request.