Formulate Innovation & Safety

How We Help Clients

• Product Formulation & Innovation

  Exponent's chemists and process engineers understand that chemical products are formulated for a global market, requiring a global view of regulatory and technical requirements. When creating new products and targeting new markets, we provide technical expertise that can make the difference between success and failure.

  We offer support across the product lifecycle with:

  • Assessing the properties of new formulations
  • Compliance review and maintenance for existing products
  • Market analyses
  • Manufacturing process design
  • Product performance and stress testing
  • Regulatory approval support

  Thought leadership

  Opportunities in Europe's Biopesticide Market

  Adopting RNAi and advanced plant protection technologies in a shifting regulatory environment

  

• Regulatory & Compliance

  The complexity of regional, national, and global regulations means that chemical companies that can manage regulatory compliance requirements efficiently may also be able to capture competitive advantage.

  Whether you need support with pesticides, packaged foods, drugs, or cosmetics, Exponent's multidisciplinary experts can provide comprehensive support across a broad range of product types.  

  From active substances (or ingredients) and product formulations to regulatory approval roadmaps and safety in the market, we  ensure you have the knowledge needed to anticipate and correct issues before they happen — or mitigate them effectively. 

  Chemical Review Process

  Our regulatory experts, chemists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, and environmental and exposure assessment professionals can help you navigate the chemical review process and stay aligned with global and regional requirements. Additionally, for North America and Europe, we can act as your registered agent for regulatory approval processes and provide detailed advice on market expansion and global importation requirements.

  Labeling

  To navigate complex labeling rules, our regulatory experts offer support in creating clear, understandable product labels, including required language such as warnings and directions for use. In the U.S., we are seasoned at meeting federal and state requirements to ensure compliant labeling in all 50 states.

  Disposal

  With our broad experience in chemical and biological regulation, Exponent is also well suited to understanding the downstream impacts of chemicals after their disposal and associated regulatory compliance requirements.

• Environment & Sustainability

  The nature of chemical manufacturing places incredibly high stakes on the potential impact of daily operations to human health and the environment. Our multidisciplinary scientific and engineering teams can give you a clear understanding of how your activities may affect the air, soil, and groundwater near your facilities and through your products.

  Across hundreds of projects for chemical and biological companies, we've helped clients:

  • Characterize new chemical compounds through custom testing in our specialized labs or contract research partners
  • Design and deploy water and air monitoring networks
  • Make processes and products more sustainable
  • Model the dispersion of pollutants
  • Understand the environmental fate and transport of chemical compounds

  In the bigger picture, we help you understand the impact of climate change on your business, now and in the future. How will your customer needs change? How might regulations evolve? How can your operations use less energy and prepare for weather extremes?

• Health Sciences & Innovation

  Total product management of chemical products requires expert guidance in both the short and long term. Exponent's specialists in toxicology, mechanistic biology, and epidemiology have conducted detailed studies on the health impacts of hundreds of products including pesticides, paints, and plastics. We've studied chemicals spanning dioxins, PCBs, VOCs, benzenes, PFAS, and more, giving us unmatched breadth of experience across the most challenging chemical compounds.

  Beyond assessing substances themselves, our studies also account for demographics, exposure dosages, and use situations to create a true picture of potential real-world health impacts.

• Industrial Operations & Technology

  Manufacturing chemicals requires great precision across a long sequence of processes — and Exponent assembles multidisciplinary teams to tackle your challenges, drawing from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, combustion and fluid mechanics, materials and corrosion, data sciences, and more.

  Whether it's improving the quality of an existing process ("why is the moisture level so high?") or innovating something new ("how can we manufacture this new type of product?"), we get to the right answers by applying smart science, best practices, and creative solutions.

  Industrial Hygiene

  Exponent also helps you keep workers safe with audits of occupational health and safety. Our experts can assess performance from every perspective, encompassing buildings and machines, the humans around them, and the processes for making your products.

• Risk Assessment & Mitigation

  Our experience with chemical companies and other heavy industries has helped us develop unique insights on sources of potential liability and the smartest ways to address them. We work with clients to develop risk assessment methodologies to solve issues ranging from explosions to worker safety.

  At the highest level, our risk assessment consulting helps you identify maintenance priorities across your infrastructure, based on quantified risk. At a detailed level, our process safety engineers can assess the interaction of humans and processes to spot and fix potential trouble.

  We then develop actionable models, based on real numbers and grounded in science, to help you minimize incidents across your operation. 

• Accident & Failure Investigation

  Accidents or failures in a chemical plant can pose unique challenges and risks. If the unimaginable does occur, you can rely on Exponent's preeminent expertise in uncovering the root causes and contributing factors of what went wrong.

  Our 50+ years of experience across all manner of catastrophes, from refinery explosions to pipeline failures to worker falls, enable us to provide detailed, actionable insights on why an incident happened — and what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

• Data-Driven Insights

  The amount of data in a modern chemical operation can be overwhelming, creating confusion and paralysis when the moment calls for decisive action.

  Our data sciences team can create the clarity and understanding needed to go forward confidently.

  • Strategic alignment on the business challenges that need to be solved 
  • Analysis of what to measure and how
  • Organization, cleaning, and alignment of data across multiple sources
  • Database management and integrations with third-party data sources
  • Advanced data modeling to provide key insights and decision-making support
  • Design of real-time dashboards and custom reports to enable clear communications

• Disputes

  Clients turn to Exponent when they need to objectively understand what went wrong and why. No matter what situation you're facing, our experts bring principled science to every case — telling you what you need to know, not what you want to hear.

  Exponent scientists and engineers represent the science at dispute proceedings by bringing clarity, precision, and the ability to explain complicated topics in understandable ways to judges and juries. We assist clients across all phases of disputes including pre-litigation, fact-finding, litigation expert testimony, and arbitration.