Research & Development

With over 60 years of combined technical expertise in the field of polymer chemistry, the Lavergne Group provides material development solutions for your most challenging problems.  We excel in developing products which solve your technical and financial issues, whether design, processing, tooling, or secondary operations.  Our R&D efforts have resulted in the development of proprietary compatibility enablers and modifiers, opening the door to new families of alloys.  We have achieved continuity and maximization of alloy properties by combining reactive extrusion and nano-dispersion of phases during alloy compounding.  We also continue our successful efforts in developing new grades of non-halogen flame retardant compounds.

Whether you need us to perform simple tasks such as part function analysis, evaluate environmental resistance, analyze cost effectiveness, or provide solutions to complex situations involving production, shrinkage, mold flow, and part performance, our R&D experience and abilities will make your product development process easier and faster.  We help ensure that the part you design is the part you get.

Our R&D efforts are committed to researching and creating engineered thermoplastics that are used to lower total system cost and deliver value in applications requiring stiffness, strength, temperature resistance, durability, and excellent electrical properties.