Members & Research Programme

Members are largely multi-national manufacturing companies in the speciality chemicals, pharmaceutical, personal care, food and energy sectors - the breadth of Membership showing the wide applicability of the work.  All industries face common challenges of rapidly developing high performance innovative products in an environment with increased regulations, quality assurance requirements, and pressure on costs.  FMP focusses on providing critical information required for this not available anywhere in the public domain.

FMP continuously expands its mixing knowledge through a research programme driven by Members.  New performance correlations with guidance on the safe limits of their application, good practice guidelines and scale-up methods are developed using data obtained in its own lab.  Here tests are performed at a broad range of scales and using a vast collection of industrially relevant mixing equipment.  Most stirred vessel and in-line mixing tests are performed in transparent tanks and pipes, allowing visualisation of the process which massively aids understanding and interpretation.  FMP also tests the validity of publicly available information under industrially relevant conditions.