Dynamic changes from Systag
Research and development in the chemical and life sciences industry is going through dynamic changes, leading to a growing supply industry. Proteomics and Microarrays, combinatorial chemistry and HTS all produce a growing number of chemical compounds that could potentially produce marketable drug candidates. However, with such an expansion bottlenecks are found, especially in process development.
To help overcome this Systag, of Ruschlikon, Switzerland, has developed the FlexyLab. The system leads to an improvement in efficiency and reproducibility in process research, development and optimisation. Two, four or six reactors can operate in parallel or independently for the development or optimisation of a process. Several parallel and reproducible experiments with slightly differing variables for an experimental series can be performed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Due to the modular nature of the FlexyLab the company says it is a cost effective option, and special attention has been made to ensure an easy handling of the system. The set-up and construction of the reactor and the gravimetric dosages, which have been integrated in the standard system configuration, enable process optimisation at an early stage of development. FlexyLab is suitable as a versatile tool for screening in small 100ml glass reactors, for quantitative and qualitative process optimisation, typically in 250ml reactors as well as for early scale-up studies in 400ml reactors, optionally with calorimetric measurement. It offers an individual, independent programmable run-control for each reactor. Data acquisition, display of experiment data on the trend graphics, and the versatile data evaluation package, SysGraph, are included in this compact high-tech system.
Hall 6.1, Stand G9-G10
