ReactArray has engaged Micro Reactor Systems Provider to support the marketing of its automated process chemistry workstations
ReactArray systems have been developed in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate high throughput reaction screening and optimisation.
MRSP will use its specialised knowledge of the pharmaceutical and speciality chemical markets to support ReactArray and its existing dealer network, accelerating awareness and market uptake of this world-leading product suite.
MRSP CEO Thomas Schwalbe commented: "We are very pleased to work with ReactArray as it gives us the opportunity to provide best-in-class robotic batch technology to our existing customers.
"Recent extensions to the product suite enable drug stressing, solubility testing and chemical synthesis applications that will be particularly welcomed by chemists world wide.
"The new Solo product will boost the productivity of those process chemistry groups that have been waiting for a lower-cost entry into parallel synthesis workstations".
ReactArray group manager Mark Harding added: "Thomas Schwalbe and Keith Simons (VP business development, MRSP) are both well known and highly regarded in the market place and we are delighted to be entering into this relationship.
"Greater awareness of ReactArray and new applications will help more scientists in both industry and research organisations understand its capabilities and benefit from the solutions it can provide them".
ReactArray workstations have been developed through collaboration between Anachem and chemists within the pharmaceutical industry to provide a proven and robust concept that meets the demand for high throughput reaction screening and optimisation.
Today there are over 200 systems in use worldwide.
Anachem is a leading supplier of laboratory equipment and services, established for over thirty five years with key expertise in liquid handling, chromatography, automation and process optimization solutions.
The ReactArray Workstation was developed in conjunction with GSK, Pfizer and Astra Zeneca.
ReactArray has been designed to fulfil the chemist's need for a compact and rugged, fume-cupboard compatible workstation.
The software, defined by steering group chemists, is now in it's fourth generation and uniquely includes a complete HPLC data handling and control package written specifically for the needs of the user wishing to monitor a process.
The workstation has been developed into the area of automated solubility testing by the addition of a unique (patent applied for) device that is able to take quantitative filtered samples across a wide temperature and solvent range.
The ReactArray Solo product was introduced in 2005 to provide a manual reaction rack with independently controlled vessels.
The Solo rack can be fitted to the workstation platform as any need for improved productivity and data quality arises.
Solo and workstation software software have been designed to ensure any easy transition from manual to automated experiments.
Mark Harding graduated from Leeds University in 1984.
Following a number of years of selling laboratory automation equipment chiefly to Industry, Harding has worked closely with leading pharmaceutical consortia to help define a number of new products in the field of parallel chemistry.
Thomas Schwalbe graduated from the University of Frankfurt in 1989, before joining Professor Barry Trost at Stanford University as a research associate.
Having worked with Degussa, Raychem Chemelex Industrial Division and the Institut fur Mikrotechnik in Mainz, he then spent five years establishing Cellular Process Chemistry as a business, developing the company's technology, markets and industry profiles to their current levels, before founding MRSP in 2005.
He holds an MBA from Insead.
Keith Simons graduated with a PhD from Hull in 1993.
Keith then conducted post-doctoral research with ETH in Zurich, before spending five years as a senior development chemist with Johnson Matthey.
He held business development management positions with Avantium Technologies and the Crystal Faraday Partnership before joining MRSP in January 2005.
