CAPIS is now officially open—bridging knowledge, technology, and industry.
Center for Advanced Polymer & Industrial Solutions
CAPIS is now officially open—bridging knowledge, technology, and industry.
Center for Advanced Polymer & Industrial Solutions
CAPIS brings industrial experience and academic knowledge together around real production challenges, from component performance and service life to process quality and consistency. Our purpose is to identify a suitable route and connect the expertise needed to develop solutions that can be tested and used in industry.
Founded & backed by: Islamic Azad University, Najafabad – Vulkan Industrial Group | Industrial & academic partner network
By combining scientific expertise, advanced laboratory infrastructure, and close collaboration with industry, CAPIS transforms real-world challenges in polymer, rubber, and elastomer technologies into practical innovation projects and industry-ready solutions. From formulation development and materials engineering to performance evaluation, prototyping, and industrial validation, CAPIS partners with industry to accelerate innovation and strengthen technological competitiveness.
We start from the actual failure on your production line — abrasion, downtime, component failure, scrap rate — not from a research title. The service is defined after the problem is understood.
Formulation, laboratory validation, prototyping, pilot scale-up, industrial validation and transfer are handled as one continuous chain — not handed off between disconnected providers.
Reports are citable and standards-based; timelines, confidentiality levels and deliverables are contractual. Credibility is the core of the CAPIS brand.
This is a framework for discussing collaboration. The stages, deliverables and decision points are agreed for each challenge.
Translating a production-floor symptom into a technically well-posed problem with measurable acceptance criteria.
Expected Output
Typical Partners
Root-cause analysis, material characterization, literature and patent review, and definition of the research path.
Expected Output
Related Services
Formulation design, compound development and process design to reach a candidate technical solution.
Expected Output
TRL
Producing representative samples and running the standard test battery against the acceptance criteria.
Expected Output
Standards
Trial runs under real operating conditions, in-service monitoring and verification of the business case.
Expected Output
TRL
Scale-up, transfer of know-how, licensing arrangements and support for domestic manufacturing of the part or material.
Expected Output
Collaboration Models
Long-term performance tracking, continuous improvement, and measurement of sustainability and circularity impact.
Expected Output
Business Impact
CAPIS services are organized into five specialized areas to address the research, technology, and industrial needs of the polymer sector. Each area brings together related services and defines a clear path for collaboration, from problem analysis to technology development and industrial support.
Every industry faces its own technical challenges and innovation priorities. CAPIS delivers research, technology development, and engineering solutions tailored to the specific requirements of each industrial sector.
Mining · Abrasion · Downtime · Liner life
Steel · High temperature · Corrosion
Tile & Ceramic · Abrasion · Part failure
Oil & Gas · Sealing · Chemical resistance
Petrochemical · Material selection · Lifetime
Cement · Wear parts · Maintenance cost
Transportation · Vibration · Durability
Energy · Sealing · Insulation
General · Localization · Quality
Advanced · Smart & sustainable materials
Every technology has an independent page with problem, solution, advantages, applications, TRL, IP status, inventors, related projects and partnership opportunities.
The technology portfolio is filterable by TRL (RFP §23).
Share your technical challenge, production issue, or research need with CAPIS. Our team will evaluate your case and recommend the right path for analysis, technology development, and industrial solutions.
All requests are handled confidentially and can be securely tracked.
Domestically developed compound and part geometry replacing imported liners, validated under real mill operating conditions.
TRL 8 · Mining · Elastomer
Formulation set targeting extended sealing lifetime under thermal and chemical stress, currently in pilot validation.
TRL 6 · Petrochemical · Compounding
Process route to reintroduce reclaimed rubber into industrial compounds without significant loss of mechanical properties.
TRL 4 · Sustainability · Circular
Project reports will be published here once the information is cleared for publication, outlining the challenge, CAPIS’s role, the project stage and the outputs available to share.
Replacing an imported wear part with a domestically produced equivalent — from compound design to in-service validation.
Mining · Localization · 2024
Systematic investigation of repeated field failures, leading to a corrected material specification and supplier criteria.
Cement · Failure Analysis · 2025
A co-funded research project pairing a plant's process data with university characterization capacity.
Tile & Ceramic · Joint R&D · 2025
Technology Trend — Global trends, major players and what the shift implies for Iranian producers. — CAPIS View included
Scientific Watch — Recent scientific publications translated into implications for industrial compounding. — CAPIS View included
Startup Watch — Who is building what, at which TRL, and where partnership is realistic. — CAPIS View included
Patent Watch — Filing activity, key assignees and the freedom-to-operate picture. — Quarterly report
Patent Watch — Which routes are protected and which remain open for development. — Quarterly report
Competitor Technology Watch — Capability build-up and technology sourcing patterns worth tracking. — Quarterly report
Market Watch — Market direction, opportunities and threats for domestic producers. — CAPIS Insight
Standards Watch — What changed, when it takes effect, and how to prepare your lab. — CAPIS Insight
Sustainability Watch — Regulatory direction and its implications for Iranian industry. — CAPIS Insight
Solve a production problem, validate a supplier, or localize a critical part.
Improve compound quality, reduce scrap, and access testing capacity.
Joint research, theses grounded in real industrial problems, and access to industry.
Localization programs, technology policy input, and industrial capability building.
Shared standards work, joint events and sector-level knowledge products.
Pilot testing, validation, scale-up and access to industrial market.
Technology portfolio, due diligence, and co-investment opportunities.
Press kit, fact sheet, statistics, expert interviews and industry reports.
Internships, industrial theses, scholarships, courses and research opportunities.
Skills development is part of CAPIS’s direction: connecting academic knowledge with production experience and strengthening the ability to identify and solve problems. Contact us to describe an organisational training need or an interest in academic and skills-based collaboration.
If you are unsure whether your challenge calls for testing, process improvement or research, send an initial description to discuss a possible route.
Global trends, major players, patents and implications for Iranian industry.
REPORT · CAPIS-TR-2025-04 · 2025 · Free
Governance, IP arrangements and milestone design for joint projects.
WHITEPAPER · CAPIS-WP-2025-01 · 2025 · Free
Full technical narrative including test data and business impact.
CASESTUDY · CAPIS-CS-2024-07 · 2024 · Free
26 August 2026 | Najafabad | Past event
Perspectives from industry and academia on the establishment of CAPIS and its approach to collaboration.
08 Aban — Online · Free · Certificate available
The centre’s scientific foundation: contributing academic and research expertise, providing laboratory infrastructure, coordinating academic capabilities, and connecting researchers and students with industrial challenges.
The centre’s industrial foundation: funding its establishment and equipment, providing an industrial setting, contributing production experience and real business challenges, and enabling validation under actual operating conditions through direct access to industry.
The newsletter is segmented: you receive only the areas you select, not everything CAPIS publishes.
Every path ends in a structured request form with a tracking code, a confidentiality level and a named responsible expert.
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