From the idea to the delivery ...
Do you have an idea for a new product and are looking for the suitable material?
Thanks to our many years of experience in project work with our customers, we can accompany you safely, quickly and in a target-oriented way through the entire development process until the delivery of the first sheet.
Our extensively and modernly equipped R&D department with its own in-house test laboratory, technical centre and colour laboratory can propose and subsequently realise a material composite with defined design and reliable properties from a single source.
Of course we will be at your side to provide you with competent advice afterwards.
1. Your idea - our product proposal
⇒ Competent advice and support from our sales team
- clarification of the general requirements with regard to the end application (e.g. physical, mechanical, chemical, thermal)
- definition of the product design in terms of surface, colour and gloss
- coordination of the project schedule and negotiation of the purchasing and delivery conditions
2. Start of project development at MITRAS Materials
⇒ Cross-departmental delevopment work based on the requirement profile
- selection of the right raw material and definition of the material structure by the development department
- colour, gloss and design coordination by our colour laboratory and development department
- feasibility testing on the production line by the production and development departments
3. Implementation of colour and design
⇒ Colour matching of the desired colour by our in-house colour laboratory
- selection from our colour archive with over 6,000 own coulor developments
- colour matching based on a RAL or Pantone colour chart
- recipe setting according to any customer sample (e.g. metal, plastic, paper, etc ...)
4. MITRAS colour laboratory series
⇒ Extrusion of a laboratory sample in our technical center
- small sheet sample to judge the colouring and the design for the first orientation for the serial production
5. Planning and execution of sampling production / pre-series
⇒ Approval of the laboratory sample and of the sampling production / pre-series by the customer
⇒ Planning and organisation of the production process
- ensuring the availability of raw materials
- production of the colour masterbatch
⇒ Execution of the sampling production / pre-series
- determination of the process parameters by our production
- verification of the defined specifications by our quality team
6. Approval process by the customer
⇒ Assesment of the sampling sheets
- carrying out thermoforming tests, processing
- evaluation of the final colouring, design, etc.
⇒ Feedback to us and product approval
⇒ Upon request: defintion of reference samples with regard to colour, gloss and surface quality
⇒ By agreement: measurement of furthervalues in MITRAS' own test laboratory
- e.g. colour, mechanical values, UV tests, fire tests, etc.
7. Customer approval: thermoforming and further processing steps
⇒ production of thermoformable sheets
⇒ delivery of the finished product