Production Capabilities

With 10,000 litres total capacity, the facility consists of 19 jacketed reactors available in glass lined and stainless steel. Capacities range from 20 litres to 1350 litres making Varichem ideally suited to small and semi-bulk manufacturing.

• Reactor services: Temperature from -15^oC to 200^oC, shear mixing, vacuum and inert gas
• Filtration: Centrifugation, vacuum or pressure filtration units
• Drying: Fan assisted ovens, vacuum tray ovens or fluid bed dryers
• Product finishing: Milling, sieving and drum blending
• Warehousing: Controlled designation of materials and refrigerated storage
• Environmental: Waste minimisation, chemical treatment and approved disposal agents.
• Hazardous reagents: Safe handling of Br₂, HPF₆, HCl gas, BC_l3, NH₃, DMA.

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R&D and Kilo-Lab Capabilities

Fully equipped laboratories to perform multistep synthesis from grams to kilograms.

• In House Patent and Scientific Literature (Database) Searching
• Schlenk techniques for air and moisture sensitive compounds
• Shear mixers, Pressure autoclaves (< 5bar) and Vacuum techniques (<1mmHg)
• Preparative chromatography and TLC analysis.
• Drying via vacuum oven or 5 litre Fluid bed drier
• Rotary evaporators up to 20L scale.
• Kilo Facility: Jacketed QVF glass lined vessels (25L and 50L) in containment facility

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Analytical Capabilities

Fully equipped analytical laboratories with facilities to handle light sensitive materials.

Chromatography: Agilent HPLC system with Diode Array multi-wavelength detector. Waters GPC system with UV detection Agilent Capillary GC system with FID	Material Sciences: Mettler Differential Scanning Calorimeter SRS Optimelt Sartorius MA-40 Moisture Balance Nikon microscope
Spectroscopy: Micromass LCMS system with APCI Perkin Elmer FTIR with ATR option Unicam UV/VIS spectrometer Multinuclear NMR 600MHz (offsite)	Wet Chemistry: Mettler Karl Fischer Mettler T50 Autotitration Brookfield Digital Viscometer Parr Density Meter and Lovibond Colourimeter