Reverse Engineering
Deformulation, or reverse engineering of a chemical formulation, is a detailed analytical process that uncovers the composition of formulated products and examines how their components interact. This process helps identify the chemicals, substances, or materials used in a product's formulation, providing insights into each ingredient’s role and function.
Our analytical chemists utilize their background in industry to perform reverse engineering and de-formulation projects, which allow you to learn more about chemical formulations or products and, more importantly, how the individual components behave and react. It's not just an element list or "menu" that we offer, but an organized, strategic approach.
This information can be very useful to your company in terms of making decisions about product innovation, quality control, product performance improvement, and exploring possible patent infringement and looking into situations where the patents have expired. Our analysts assist your formulation or product development by strategic reverse-engineering analytical programs in which we use multi-technique approaches to build a comprehensive profile of a particular formulation or material and explain why it works.
We can contribute data to further the knowledge of the many aspects of a formulation, concentration of ingredient, and how these aspects and ingredients interact and behave. Because our experience supports top innovators in their fields such as chemical, beauty personal care, cosmetics, food, cleaning products, wipes.
We are experts in chemical technology because it gives a purpose to formulations like fragrances or pigments and dyes, preservatives, food products and many other solutions.
Our reverse engineering projects are essential for addressing patent infringement, supporting innovation, resolving quality control issues, and facilitating the market entry of specific chemical technologies. Through a coordinated approach, we collaborate closely with our clients to offer confidential and independent testing expertise. Our services include advanced techniques in separation science, spectroscopy, extraction, elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, and physical testing.