Slashing Inefficiencies in Consumer Product Manufacturing 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.
Register for 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.
Join these experts after the presentation and get your specific questions answered during the live Q&A.
Presenter: Alex Mattingly (Product Specialist, Chemlink)
Alex Mattingly is a Product Specialist at Chemlink and a graduate of Kennesaw State University’s chemistry program. Since joining the team at Chemlink, he has focused on developing spectrometric techniques for determining a variety of chemical characteristics in raw materials and finished goods. His quantitative models for peroxide analysis, using near-infrared spectroscopy have enabled a new level of productivity and efficiency in the lab.
Presenter: Lenzi Williams (Spectroscopy Product Specialist, Metrohm USA)
Lenzi Williams is the Spectroscopy Product Specialist at Metrohm USA in Riverview, Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL where her thesis focused on quantifying excited state dynamics of unique nanomaterials using ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Lenzi joined Metrohm USA in February 2024, focusing on Raman and NIR Spectroscopy.
