Services designed to accelerate innovation
Our whole company is designed to support industry to:
Accelerate innovation
Develop commercially viable products
Identify new market opportunities
Provide world leading scientific advisory services
Our Core Services
Product Development
& Technical Consultancy
With world-class expertise and complete pilot-scale prototyping capability, NIRI exploits fibre and material science, as well as process engineering to design, develop, scale-up and validate nonwoven and fibre products.
Advanced Materials Development
We have a specialist in-house team that focuses on advancing the material properties and functionalities of nonwovens, fibres, binders and coatings through reformulation, characterisation and product development.
Market Insights
& Strategic Advice
We help organisations stay ahead of the competition and make informed decisions about market and product development, diversification and capital equipment investment by providing bespoke market insights and strategic advice.
Collaboration
At NIRI, we believe that collaboration is the key to innovation. That’s why we work closely with our customers and industry partners to develop new ideas and solutions and stay at the forefront of the nonwovens industry. Our services and business models are designed to complement your team, build robust and transparent relationships and deliver business growth for your organisation. NIRI has four business models that can be tailored to your unique requirements:
VP Global Marketing, $5.2 Bn Company
“NIRI has an extensive array of services that complement our R&D capability. They have helped us identify new opportunities and then transition our ideas into full working products”
Our Services
Understand
Unmet need analysis
Concept Development
Reverse Engineering
Benchmarking
Composition analysis
Structure-performance relationships
Market opportunities

New Legislation
Develop
Prototyping
Processability evaluation
Optimisation
Method development
New material evaluation
Proof of concept
Technical feasibility
Value proposition
Deliver
Final design
Final specification
Scale-up
Production transfer
Validation & supporting data
Cost reduction
Industrial problem solving
Market intelligence