Capabilities

We work closely with our customers, under confidentiality, usually beginning early in the catalyst development process to ensure that reliable, high-quality, cost-effective supplies are available when needed for commercial production. Our technology and expertise enable us to demonstrate cost-effective manufacturing processes at the research and development stage, and then efficiently scale these up to manufacture commercial volumes. We have been synthesizing and scaling up complex, air- and water-sensitive organometallic catalysts since the early 1980's.

We develop advanced syntheses of organometallic catalysts for our customers drawing upon an experienced team of Ph.D. organometallic chemists. We are equally adept at independent development process or close collaboration with customers' R&D teams. Process development and scale-up to kilogram quantities of single-site organometallics and supported catalysts are guided by experienced process engineers at our R&D center in Mountain View, California, Chester, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Maryland and Worms, Germany. We have extensive analytical equipment and experts to support R&D and commercial operations in the following areas:

• nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
• infrared spectroscopy (IR)
• gas chromatography (GC)
• high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)

We use a broad array of equipment to meet our customers needs. The commercial reactors range in size from 200 to 5,000 liters with a variety of metallurgy (glass-lined, stainless steel, Hastelloy). We have capabilities to handle both high temperature with hot oil and steam systems and low temperature with liquid nitrogen and glycol refrigeration. We have a complete line of auxiliary equipment to handle all typical unit operations. All manufacturing is done to the highest health, safety, and environmental standards, including the use of difficult chemicals or solvents.