The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector is currently navigating a significant transition driven by a global consumer shift toward "clean label" products and high-transparency ingredient lists. However, replacing functional synthetic additives with natural, sustainable alternatives often introduces complex formulation challenges regarding stability, shelf-life, and performance.
This webinar explores how a "predict-first" digital chemistry platform can mitigate these risks by shifting the discovery from the laboratory alone to a high-throughput computational environment. Central to this digital transformation is the synergy between physics-based simulations and formulation machine learning (ML). While traditional ML often struggles with the "data sparsity" typical of novel natural ingredients, physics-based methods generate high-fidelity, molecular-level descriptors that provide the "ground truth" for ingredient interactions. These simulations allow R&D teams to characterize key properties like solubility, phase stability, and chemical stability of complex, multi-component systems before a single physical sample is synthesized.
Key Highlights:
Rapid Formulation Screening: See how this integrated approach enables screening of tens of thousands of candidate formulations to identify the most robust "clean label" architectures
Predicting Product-Packaging Compatibility: Ensure that novel formulations do not compromise material integrity or lead to chemical migration
A Scalable Foundation for R&D: Bridge the gap between molecular-level physics and macro-scale performance to improve R&D velocity, protect margins, and meet evolving regulatory and consumer demands in an increasingly volatile global market
Speaker: Jeff Sanders, Global Portfolio Leader for CPG, Schrödinger