Plastics Materials, Processing, Equipment & Tool Making Guidance Document

Last update: August 2005

The "Plastics Materials, Processing, Equipment & Tool Making" guidance document deals mainly with plastics processing and mould making issues . A CRA/industry task force is presently completing this document with a final section on scale-up and related issues. The first part of this section deals with validation; it was added in August 2005. Further sections of this chapter will deal with feasibility studies, experimental runs on commercial equipment, prototypes and pilot plants, continuous improvement and technology transfer.

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Another section will be added at a later date to deal with Plastics scale-up, experimentation on commercial equipment work and pilot plants.

Examples

Plastics companies have provided the following examples to their sector industry committee, many based on projects in their actual claims. These examples were provided to facilitate discussion and to help establish a common understanding of the technological aspects of typical SR&ED projects in this industry sector.

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The list of topics covered is not exhaustive. The examples are intended to illustrate how the technical material might be presented. As the discussions that occurred during the preparation of this material showed, there is no single unique way to present the material in a claim.

These examples do not attempt to demonstrate:

• How to maintain internal company technical documentation for SR&ED projects, or
• How to deal with financial eligibility issues in SR&ED projects

For detailed SR&ED project documentation requirements and for the expenditure rules, please consult the extensive reference material available on this CRA SR&ED Web site.

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