23 July 2008 - Syrris launch new custom reactor systems for increased user specificity
Royston, UK 24 July 2008: Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris is delighted to announce that it can now offer users custom laboratory reactor systems from 10ml to 100 litres. Designed and built to the customer’s specification, complete systems including reactors, stirrers, circulators, RTDs, pumps, balances, sensors, etc, can be configured using virtually any manufacturer’s apparatus. Manual control or total automation can be selected using the flexible and easy-to-use Atlas PC Software.
Each customised system offers a range of benefits, such as safe performance, wide reactor volume ranges (10ml to 100 litres) in glass, stainless steel, or Hastelloy, and dosing of gas, liquid or powder, with fully automated, or manual control. Additionally, the system includes high torque stirring and measurement, and can be integrated with pH and liquid control.
The custom reactor systems can also use pressurized reactions so fully controlled hydrogenations and carbonylations can be performed. Highly flexible modular apparatus is coupled with easy-to-use software and an intuitive graphical interface that provides drag and drop icons that enables recipes to be created, edited and run quickly and accurately. The automatic data-logging feature of the software allows responses such as temperature, stirrer speed, pH, etc, to be monitored and logged to one csv file. As a result, the new custom laboratory reactor system can provide a highly adaptable, efficient solution for any chemistry laboratory.
With over 200 man years of combined experience, Syrris chemists and engineers manufacture the highest quality customised systems, which are rigorously tested before installation. For further information, please visit www.syrris.com.
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Syrris Limited
Established in 2001, Syrris Limited is one of the fastest growing science SMEs in the UK employing over 30 scientists and engineers at its facility in Royston (near Cambridge). Founders Mark Gilligan and Richard Gray come from a background of developing automation products for chemists at companies such as The Technology Partnership (TTP) and Mettler Toledo.
Syrris develops general productivity tools for chemists such as the Atlas automated chemistry systems. Atlas can be configured into a wide range of different systems including Lithium and Sodium for round bottom flasks (magnetically and overhead stirred respectively) and Potassium for jacketed vessels. Other Atlas systems, designed for specific applications, including calorimetry, volumetric dosing, gravimetric dosing, pH, etc, are also available.
Syrris also specialise in flow reactors for R&D chemists, including FRX: a low cost flow chemistry system and Africa (Automated Flow Reaction Incubation and Control Apparatus): a modular system for library synthesis, aqueous work-up and reaction optimization that will ultimately reduce the time taken to develop, synthesize, screen and review a chemical entity, thus vastly speeding up the drug discovery process.
In recognition of its technological achievements, Syrris has been awarded a prestigious UK DTI SMART Exceptional Grant. Syrris has also won a significant DTi MNT (Micro and Nano Technology) award which is being used to establish a new subsidiary called The Dolomite Centre Ltd. This new company is focused on design and fabrication of Microfluidic devices for a wide range of applications.