Physicochemical profiling instrument manufacturer has doubled the size of its applications service facility to meet increasing demand for its range of assays
Physicochemical profiling instrument manufacturer Sirius Analytical Instruments has doubled the size of its applications service facility to meet increasing demand for its range of assays.
The UK-based manufacturer has implemented a totally new 40m2 applications laboratory on its premises, in which to test compounds from pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agrochemical manufacturers.
The applications laboratory is principally used by customers to determine pKa by UV absorption and/or potentiometry, logP by potentiometric assay, and logD by isocratic chromatography, intrinsic solubility by potentiometric assay, and miniaturised shake flask solubility and permeability by the Pampa method.
Instruments located in the laboratory include the Sirius GLpKa, D-PAS, ProfilerSGA, ProfilerLDA, Pion pSOL, mSOL and Pampa Evolution.
The new applications laboratory tests hundreds of samples per year, and is managed by two full-time chemists.
The laboratory has been totally refitted and designed to offer the applications service.
All the instruments in the laboratory are dedicated to analysis, and are available for commissioning all year round.
No research is performed in the applications laboratory.
All new research work is undertaken in a separate research-only laboratory.
The applications laboratory is fitted with production standard instrumentation running released versions of the instrument software packages.
