API Institute

Polymers for Profit
API Institute turns knowledge into cash flow. We strengthen your business opportunities by supporting you to integrate our scientific knowledge in your Research & Development programme and/or production processes. We can also offer you technology assessment of new concepts by you or others.

The core competences of API Institute:

• Laboratory scale and pilot-plant scale polymerization and solid-stating of polymer chips, including twin-screw compounding development activities
• Spinning, drawing, and winding of (multifilament) fibers using different kinds of melt spinning technologies
• Analytical evaluation and physical characterization of polymers and polymer products

A major advantage is that these activities, essential to the support of new processes and/or product developments, are concentrated within API Institute.

Customer benefits
The knowledge and expertise at API Institute enable you to:

• Leverage the joint experience of a unique group of high-level specialists in the field
• Talk with a team of experts who understand your challenges and translates them into solutions
• Have direct access to a state-of-art polymer laboratory with all chemical and physical techniques to analyze and characterize all polymers and polymer products
• Move smoothly from laboratory to process in our well-equipped Pilot Plant facilities in the area of polymer synthesis, reactive extrusion, compounding, injection moulding, and fiber spinning
• Our experience and extensive know-how regarding the relationship between process settings, physical structure of the product, and its mechanical properties, allows you to develop new customer specified products, in record time.  

Contact API Institute 

API Institute
Postbus 2250
7801 CG Emmen
Eerste Bokslootweg 17
7821 AT Emmen
The Netherlands

T +31 (0) 591 69 2117
F +31 (0) 591 69 3456
E info@api-institute.com