Custom polymer systems, highly filled materials, and composite architectures are engineered for demanding performance requirements. Expertise spans morphology control, reinforcement strategies, and multifunctional material design.
Helping Innovators Incubate
Interfacial, a Nagase Group company, creates advanced materials and manufacturing platforms that enable breakthrough products. Interfacial partners with leading innovators to bring new technologies to market across transportation, construction, medical, consumer, and emerging industries.
Advanced Materials Innovation from Concept to Production
Interfacial specializes in technology development and de-risking across specialty compounding, advanced composites, sustainable materials, morphology control, and additive manufacturing. These platforms accelerate material discovery, optimization, and scale-up for innovators.
More than a research lab, it integrates R&D, manufacturing, and IP development to move technologies from idea through commercial production. With experience spanning more than 6,000 materials, these systems enable confident innovation at the speed of business.
Interfacial Core Divisions
Development Services
Development Services collaborates with customers to design materials, processes, and custom solutions aligned to project goals. Capabilities include R&D services, plastic compound formulation, additive manufacturing prototyping, chemical synthesis, and material characterization.
Specialty Materials
Specialty Materials develops and produces custom compounds and masterbatches for demanding applications. Rapid development cycles, flexible production volumes, and proprietary platforms enable tailored material solutions with consistent performance.
Engineered Substrates
Engineered Substrates produces composite sheet materials from high recycled-content plastics. These lightweight, dimensionally stable substrates deliver durability, flame resistance, and sustainability benefits for structural and transportation applications.
Advance Materials Through Specialty Compounding
Engineer Sustainable and High-Performance Materials
Recycled-content composites, bio-based materials, and dimensionally stable substrates enable lightweighting, durability, and circular material strategies. These platforms maintain structural and thermal performance while supporting sustainability goals.
Enable Additive Manufacturing and Novel Material Design
Additive manufacturing materials and process platforms enable next-generation geometries and multifunctional performance. Capabilities include custom feedstocks, material characterization, and application-specific AM development.
Accelerate Innovation with High-Throughput Development
High-throughput R&D systems integrate robotics, data-driven experimentation, and rapid iteration to reduce development risk and timelines. These platforms enable efficient discovery, optimization, and commercialization.
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