Quality, training and process improvement consultancy. Supply to pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Preparing for regulatory inspections, quality systems development, cost savings, solving intractable or recurring quality issues, lean manufacture, culture change, training, auditing (including PS9000).

Technical, commercial and environmental capabilities with respect to all aspects of minerals and metals. Services include design and feasibility studies, due diligence, benchmarking, market and strategic studies, environmental reviews and advice in insurance and legal disputes.

Plastics technology, injection moulding, compression and transfer moulding, extrusion; plastic materials selection; failure investigations of plastics and some rubbers; litigation and expert witness investigation.

MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility

Failure and accident investigations for metals, components, cracks, repairs, wear and misuse in all classes of industrial machinery, road and rail vehicles, power plant and structures. Full metallurgical investigations, chemical analysis, mechanical testing, melting and casting, hot and cold working, x-ray and electron microscopy with analysis, SEM. Electronic measurement and recording for vibration, loads, noise, pressure, stresses, strains and working characteristics in structures and machinery using strain gauges, etc.

Smithers Rapra Technology Limited provides information, testing and consultancy on rubber and plastics materials.

Materials testing and advice including fatigue testing of materials and components, testing of products to specified standards, failure analysis, electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, X-Ray diffraction, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis, optical microscopy and general microstructural examination. We can also provide standard chemical analysis services, especially with respect to metals.

Designs for corrosion mitigation and monitoring; cathodic protection design, specification, materials evaluation and system maintenance; consultancy for corrosion control and materials selection in oil and gas industry.