What we do:

  • Contract Research

  • Routine Analysis

  • Small Volume Manufacturing

  • Materials Prototyping

A visitor to Bay Materials will see a bustling wet lab, a complete analytical lab for developing and evaluating polymer materials, and a scale-up facility with conventional mixing methods and small-scale compounding, extruding, and converting capabilities.

Bay Materials has handled many projects of many sizes, and has a range of staff experience, equipment and supplies that defies easy categorization, but we feel these areas summarize our top capabilities and expertise:

  1. Contract Research

    You come in with a problem and leave with a well defined research plan we will act on to understand, and then resolve your difficulty.  Developing something new is hard enough without trying to become a materials expert and buying specialized analytical tools at the same time.  Bay Materials can provide the specialized R&D muscle you need to get past these kinds of problems and on to a finished product or working process.  more>>

  2. Routine Analysis

    Bay Materials has a range of analytical equipment with trained technicians including an Instron universal material tester, rheometers, a full thermal analytics laboratory, microphotography, non-contact profilometer and other laboratory equipment.  We offer fixed sample rates for routine work, as well as provide analytical support to our contract research clients.  more>>

  3. Small Volume Manufacturing

    Bay Materials has the tools, the expertise and the systems to manufacture small-to-medium scale production runs of custom polymer materials, and will support the transfer of production to higher scale manufacturers when needed.  Bay Materials has a documentation and QC system that broadly meets the needs of industry quality standards.  more>>

  4. Materials Development & Prototyping

    For many applications the only good way to evaluate whether a material will work is to produce a sample via a new process, in a form factor close to the final part and test it.  Bay Materials has equipment which allows us to compound or blend polymers, gels, adhesives, or solutions, then convert these formulated materials to extruded shapes, films, or compression molded parts for further use and evaluation. This tends to be much more powerful testing than lab-scale experimentation on raw materials, yet much less expensive than high volume compounding and molding runs.  more>>