Rapra Technology is Europe’s leading independent plastics and rubber research and technology organisation. Rapra provides comprehensive consultancy, technology and information services for the polymer industry and for industries which use plastics or rubber in any component, product or production process.

Based on two sites in the UK, Rapra’s 120 employees support over 5,000 clients every year in over 60 different countries. The Technical Department carries out over 2,000 separate confidential client projects annually, involving materials, processing and design-related issues. Rapra’s experts are backed up by extensive testing and analytical laboratory facilities, as well as a factory area for trial processing projects. The Information Department produces the World’s largest bibliographic database specialising in polymers, as well as producing a wide range of technical and scientific publications, and organising an ongoing programme of conferences and training courses.

Rapra is increasingly taking a leading role in developing and managing a series of innovative industry-based R& D programmes. Much of this is driven by Rapra’s role as joint lead partner of the Faraday Plastics Partnership, managing and exploiting active links between the UK’s plastics industry and its academic science and technology base.