Consumer products

Unlike bulk chemicals, consumer products are based on performance and properties. A typical process to produce performance materials can be divided into two parts: production of the active chemical ingredients and the formulation of the micro and macro structure. PDC supports its customers in selecting and designing the cost optimal process for the chemical ingredients as well as in selecting and designing the equipment to modify the product microstructure. The latter involves technologies such as milling, sieving, emulsification, crystallization, drying, macro and micro mixing etc. PDC's structured conceptual design methodology is able to screen and compare the many possible process alternatives to effectively find the most promising process schemes.

Our experience with industrial clients has shown that the economic performance of an unoptimized flowsheet using the best technology is superior to a highly optimized flowsheet using inferior technology. PDC's process synthesis technology has enabled our customers to signifantly reduce capital and operating costs. An additional benefit of the process synthesis projects is the development of new products as a result of understanding the process fundamentals.

Conceptual design not only helps the development of an economically desirable manufacturing process, but also provides key competitive advantage in terms of faster time to market, flexible designs, and efficient manufacturing.