Case Study: a global leader in specialty chemicals and plastics company achieves 21% higher polymer performance with Citrine Informatics

How Citrine’s Artificial Intelligence Platform Enabled a 21% Improvement in Plastic’s Mechanical Properties in Just 6 Months

A global leader in specialty chemicals and plastics company faced the challenge of needing to increase the mechanical properties of a specific glass fiber reinforced polymer to meet automotive industry demands, while maintaining its other key properties. To win major contracts, they partnered with Citrine Informatics and leveraged the Citrine Platform to tackle this formulation problem.

Citrine Informatics implemented its AI platform to optimize the polymer's coating recipe from a field of trillions of possibilities. The solution combined the customer's domain expertise with sequential learning to recommend a focused set of experimental candidates for testing. This approach resulted in a 21% average improvement in mechanical performance and reduced process variability uncertainty by 58% within just 10 months.