Case Study: Natural Fiber Welding consolidates R&D data to accelerate innovation and save weeks of team time with Uncountable

Natural Fiber Welding consolidates R&D data to accelerate innovation, improve collaboration, and position for scale

Natural Fiber Welding (NFW), a material‑science company developing plastic‑free leather, rubber, and fabric alternatives, was hampered by a patchwork of spreadsheets and a homegrown system that made permissions management painful and required constant manual work to connect and maintain R&D data. To address these challenges, NFW turned to Uncountable and its all‑in‑one web‑based R&D data management platform.

Uncountable centralized recipes, processes, and measurements, integrated instrument and lab systems, and enforced granular permissions, enabling faster collaboration and visualization. The change reclaimed hours of work—R&D Manager Maggie Fuhrman estimates she saves roughly 10–20 hours a week analyzing data, tasks that once took hours can now be done in two to three minutes, and teams report saving weeks searching and preparing historical data—while onboarding about 70 users (≈25% of the company) with plans to scale to hundreds.

Natural Fiber Welding

Skylar Clement

Material Development Engineer