Product Development
Expand your product line and grow your business with product development support from Sierra Coating Technologies. Sierra provides development services and trial coating services to shorten product development time to market.
- We have a proven development process with systems for research, testing and approval.
- We’ll share our ideas to help you develop your intellectual property. Confidentiality guaranteed.
- Our production equipment and technical resources are available to meet your demanding development and travel schedules.
The goal is to develop a product that can be manufactured to defined quality specifications in a repeatable and economically viable process.
Product development stages
- Product options, material definitions and vendor identification.
- Cost analysis for material and production options.
- Small trial runs on production equipment to define coating method, quality specifications and production speed.
- Formal quotation and quantity price breakdown.
- Production ramp-up trials to create sales samples and test final converting and packaging.
Toll Coating
Toll coating or contract manufacturing can take many forms.
Sierra’s customers rely on our equipment and systems to manufacture their product.
- Customers often manufacture or use large amounts of one of the raw materials and want to supply that item.
- Customers develop their own coatings or formulas that Sierra applies.
- To meet very competitive price points products are supplied to reduce additional markups on raw materials.
- This allows customers to purchase raw materials at volume pricing or produce their own goods. Sierra® takes no markup on supplied material.
The goal is the same: to make a product at the correct economic price point to be successful.
Our customers may also choose to have Sierra supply raw material and manage the logistics of supply and inventory.
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