Our customers benefit from the following skills and modern tools:

Process development
• Broad range of technologies
• Innovative chemistry
• Rapid implementation to full production scale
• Reliable scale-up
• Identification and early resolution of SHE issues
• Analytical method development

Process optimization
• Yield improvements
• Reduction of raw material usage
• Recycling solvents and raw materials
• Reduction of waste
• Improved throughput / productivity
• Statistical process control

Safety data generation
• Safety screening
• Analysis and documentation
• Automation of hazardous processes
• Chemical & operational hazard assessment
• Available equipment: DSC and isothermal reaction calorimeter

Analytical instrumentation
• GC-MS, GC, HPLC, FTIR

Computational modelling
• Experimental design
• Data acquisition
• Modelling and simulation
 

Laboratory and bench scale
• Efficient scale-up
• Automated reactors
• Small scale screening using reactor blocks
• several glass reactors: up to 6 l, temperature range: -60 – 200°C
• Autoclave: 8 l, stainless steel, 50 bar, temperatures up to 200°C
• Cryogenic capability up to several litres; temps down to -90°C
• Isothermal calorimeter; 500 ml; -50 to 300°C liquid & solid feed; gas evolution measurement; pH measurement

Early Manufacturing Units (EMU)
• Multipurpose unit operating to GMP
• 6 GL reactors - capacity range for 45 l to 900 l
• Pressure filter (hastelloy) and vacuum ovens
• Odour containment via carbon bed absorbers
• Hydrogenation capability (7 bar, GL, 910 l)
• Solids and liquids handling to all reactors
• Hot oil (up to 250°C) and chilled water (-15°C )

• Multipurpose unit with 8 GL reactors from 250 l to 1360 l
• Solids and liquids handling to all reactors
• Hot oil (up to 250°C) and chilled water (-15°C)
• Odour containment via carbon bed absorbers
• Pressure filters (hastelloy and SS), portable filter presses and fractionation capability