When a liquid manufacturing project involves complex chemistry – unusual fluid properties, advanced formulation techniques, or products that push the boundaries of what standard blending can achieve – Grotech Production has the technical capability to deliver.
As a UK liquid manufacturing specialist with over 40 years of experience, we work across a wide range of challenging formulations, from emulsions and suspensions to oil dispersions and specialist solvents. Here’s one example of that technical capability in action.
Developing a specialist bicycle puncture sealant – a liquid manufacturing case study
Grotech has worked with industry experts to manufacture an advanced puncture sealant – a product designed to seal punctures actively as they happen, without the need for roadside repairs.
The formulation is a unique dilatant fluid containing microfibres 25 times finer than a human hair. When hand-pumped into a deflating tyre, the microfibres are forced into the puncture and bond together with nanospheres to form a robust, airtight seal in just five minutes.
The manufacturing challenge was a significant one. A fluid engineered to block small holes under pressure presents an obvious problem when it comes to filling it into bottles – the same properties that make it effective in a tyre make it extremely uncooperative on a production line. Getting the process right required a thorough understanding of the formulation’s behaviour under different conditions, and careful adaptation of our filling process to handle it reliably at production scale.
This project involved Grotech at every stage – from working with the inventor on the development process through to full-scale production, demonstrating how our liquid manufacturing capability works alongside our technical formulation expertise.
With more than 40 years of experience to our name, our technical support team is well-versed in working with specialist liquid formulations, while our operations side provides bespoke blending processes in batches from 100-5,000 litres.
We have the chemistry know-how and equipment on-site to work with a range of technically challenging liquids, including solvents, emulsions, suspensions, and oil dispersions, filling into a full range of packaging options.
Find out more about our liquid blending services or custom formulation services or give us a call on 01405 761746.
