A polymer is selected against a process window and an end-use requirement, not against a brochure.
We build plastics and polymers websites that make grades, property data, processing parameters, regulatory and food-contact status, recyclate content and sample requests straightforward for a materials engineer or product developer to work through.
Tensile strength and melt flow index shorten a shortlist, and seldom finish it. A specifier also needs the processing window, shrinkage behaviour, regrind tolerance, colourability, ageing and chemical resistance data, and the approvals the end application demands. We build a grade model that carries all of it consistently, so two grades can be compared on the same terms instead of on whichever properties each datasheet happened to publish.
An injection moulder and an extruder ask different questions of the same polymer: melt and mould temperature ranges, drying conditions, screw and shear sensitivity, cycle implications, die swell. Publishing processing guidance alongside the property data lets a converter judge whether a grade suits the equipment they already run, which is frequently the constraint that settles the specification.
Food-contact, potable water, toy safety and flammability statuses apply grade by grade and market by market, so a buyer asking whether a compound is compliant is asking about one specific grade in one specific jurisdiction. We hold that status as governed attributes attached to each grade rather than as a general statement on a corporate page, and connect it to the declarations your regulatory function maintains.
Recycled content, bio-based content, mass-balance attribution and mechanical versus chemical recyclate each mean something specific, and buyers under their own reporting obligations will ask which one applies. We present these claims tied to the certification or documentation that supports them, and keep them distinct from general sustainability messaging, so the platform stays credible with technical and procurement readers.
We do not test materials, issue declarations of compliance or confirm recycled content. We build the platform that presents what your technical and regulatory functions confirm, structured for a specifier to evaluate.
Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.
The build priorities for a plastics and polymers business are set by grade count, the processing and compliance data a specifier needs, and how sample and tooling enquiries reach your technical team.
What comes up when building a website for a materials or compounding business.
Usually through a combination of polymer family, converting process, key properties, end application and regulatory or recycled-content status, with a parametric filter running across all of them. Which route leads depends on how your customers arrive: a compounder’s customers often start from the application, while a resin producer’s customers frequently start from the family and grade name. The structure should follow the way specifiers already narrow a choice.
Yes, where the attribute data is complete and measured to consistent standards. A selector is only as reliable as the data behind it, so the work usually begins with governing the grade attributes rather than with the interface. A useful selector narrows to a realistic shortlist and then hands complex or borderline requirements to technical service, instead of presenting a definitive answer to a decision that needs an engineer.
As structured attributes on the grade itself, qualified by market, and linked to the declaration your regulatory function maintains. A general statement that the range is food-contact compliant is unhelpful and can mislead, because status varies grade by grade and jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Modelling it as data also means a change in status becomes a single controlled update rather than an edit across scattered pages.
With the specific claim, the percentage, the certification scheme and the attribution method stated together. Buyers with their own reporting obligations distinguish between mechanical recyclate, chemical recyclate and mass-balance attribution, and a claim that does not say which one applies tends to generate questions rather than confidence. Keeping these claims tied to documentation also protects the site as certification scopes are renewed or revised.
Repeat ordering, distributor access and account-based purchasing work well where compounds, masterbatches or consumables are bought regularly against agreed terms. For grades sold in bulk under contract, a request-and-confirm route is usually more appropriate than a checkout. We generally establish which parts of the range are transactional and which are quoted before designing the commerce layer, so the pattern follows the product, the channel and the commercial process rather than a default ecommerce template.
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Tell us how customers compare your grades and what evidence they ask for. We will shape the data model, technical content and sample journey around the real material selection process.