Chemicals · R&D
R&D software for chemical manufacturers
R&D software for chemical manufacturers. Formulation trials, charge weights, yields, pilot batches and scale-up sit on the live product record, so lab work turns into a manufacturable, compliant specification.
Today
A formulation works in the lab, then misses spec at pilot scale, and the trial history that would explain why is spread across notebooks, spreadsheets and one chemist's memory.
Generic project and lab tools record that a trial happened. They don't hold composition, hazard classifications, registration scope or the commercial constraints the formula has to satisfy, so feasibility is discovered late.
With Worldover
Worldover's chemical product development software connects trials, charge weights, yields and scale-up results to the formula version, the raw material specifications and the customer brief they belong to.
Development output is a specification production can run and regulatory can defend, rather than a formula that needs re-proving.
What's in it
What R&Ddoes inside Worldover.
The operational outcomes come first. Open any area to inspect the underlying controls, records and technical detail.
Standards and regimes
01R&D Lab SoftwareDigital lab covering raw materials, formulations and regulatory screening.
Raw materials workflow management
Build a raw material library with custom workflows across multiple material types, document types and field types, all defined by you during onboarding.
Composition management
Add ingredients to raw materials as ranges or exact percentages, with full impurities management at ppm.
Table management
Customisable views by coding system, part number, type or cost.
Complex cost management
Manage raw material costs with customisable costing modules, currency settings and automatic currency conversion.
Gap analysis
Reports showing which documents are present against which are missing.
Raw material administration
Codes and sub-codes to organise the library the way your team already thinks.
One workflow, end to end
A Thursday in the lab
The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.
Where work breaks
Trials are stored, not connected
An ELN or shared drive records the result. It can't tell you that the winning trial used a raw material grade you're no longer buying.
Cost and MOQ arrive after the science
Formulators optimise performance, then discover that the solvent has a 200-litre minimum order and a nine-week lead time, so the work is redone.
Compliance is a review gate, not an input
Classification, registration scope and market restrictions are checked at the end, when a change is expensive rather than free.
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A customer asks for a lower-VOC variant of an existing coating at the same cost per kilo.
- 02
Today: the formulator starts from a copied spreadsheet, chases procurement for prices, and asks regulatory whether the new solvent is registered in three markets.
- 03
In Worldover: the existing formula is cloned as a new version with its cost, supplier and compliance context attached.
- 04
Candidate solvents show their price bands, MOQs, lead times, hazard classifications and registration status while the formulator is still choosing.
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Trial results attach to the version with charge weights and yields recorded, and the version that passes becomes the released specification without re-entry.
With Worldover
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Brief lands with its constraints
Target cost, performance, market and hazard requirements are visible in the lab, not held in the commercial team's inbox.
- 2
Trials build on the product record
Every trial references composition, supplier grade and lot of raw material used, so results remain interpretable months later.
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Pilot batches carry the evidence forward
Charge weights, yields and deviations at pilot scale link to the same version, so scale-up problems are diagnosed against known lab conditions.
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Release is a version, not a handover
The winning trial becomes the approved specification production runs against, with its test methods and limits attached.
Connected inside Worldover
One product workflow.Every consequence connected.
Formulation is substance work. Worldover stores CAS numbers, hazard classifications, supplier grade, purity and registration status on the material itself, so a chemist sees the constraint at the moment of choosing rather than at the review meeting. Change a supplier grade and every trial that used it's flagged.
Willow
Useful AI starts with live operational context.
Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.
- Which trials used this raw material grade, and what were their yields?
- Draft a comparison of the last three solvent options we trialled, with cost per kilo and registration status.
- Which formulas in development contain substances under evaluation, and for which markets?
Buyer confidence
A specialist system, without a specialist-system rollout.
Worldover combines detailed operational control with a practical route to a live first phase.
- 50+
- Enterprise customers across cosmetics, chemicals and supplements
- 4 to 7
- Point systems typically retired, most within 6 months of go-live
- 12 to 16 weeks
- To a live Phase 1, not a multi-year programme
- 1 record
- Per substance, everywhere it appears
See it on your operation
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