Partner Profile

Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC)

Areas of Expertise

XRCC is the global materials research and development centre for Xerox Corporation. We have a 40-year history of taking materials from lab to market in a competitive technology environment. Our core expertise is the design, synthesis, formulation, and scale-up of novel materials. We specialise in process engineering and scale-up, technology transfer, synthesis, formulation, polymers, composites, coatings, nanomaterials and electronic materials. Our group of ~100 staff consists of chemists, physicists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, and a dedicated support team from machinists to millwrights.

XRCC is housed in a 11,000m² facility just west of Toronto, Canada. Our space includes wet laboratories for chemistry, physics, and materials science, as well as state-of-the-art characterisation facilities including advanced equipment for microscopy, spectroscopy, thermal and mechanical analysis, surface science, abrasion and wear. Our process engineering and scale-up facilities include ¹1,000m² of bench scale engineering laboratories, including a new kilo lab facility and a 2,500m² chemical pilot plant with Class I Div. 1 and Class II Div. 1 capabilities. Our pilot manufacturing facility, with vessels sized from 0.5L to 2,000L, is flexible and modular to accommodate a variety of chemistries and processes.

Research Interests

Process engineering and scale-up – expertise to design custom processes and reactors, cost-down new or existing materials and processes, and optimise your process for reproducibility;

Supply and technology transfer – pilot plant, sized to provide developmental materials supply coupled with experience in technology transfer to large scale manufacturing;

Synthesis and formulation – experience in materials design, synthesis of small molecules and polymers, and formulations, including nanomaterials;

Electronic materials – design, scale-up, and supply of electronic and specialty materials. We offer silver nanoparticle inks, semiconducting polymers, printable organic dielectric materials, and more;

Advanced materials (polymers, composites and coatings) – experience in the design and commercialisation of polymers, particles, dispersions and coatings for a wide array of applications using numerous processes including incorporation of CNTs and graphene; and

Sustainable designs – design of sustainable materials and processes; optimisation of synthetic pathways and chemical processes to minimise environmental impact.