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Acryate R&D Ltd is an independent manufacturer of Bespoke Speciality additives. Marketed under the trade name ACRYMER™ these monomers are widely used in high tech applications. Acryate is mainly involved with the ophthalmic (Contact Lens and NLO materials), Inkjet manufacturers, Dental and Biochip industries. Chemical ExpertiseThe Company has over 20 years combined experience in the speciality chemicals industry with expertise in the following key areas: • Silylations and Ring Opening Polymerisation (ROP) of Siloxanes
• Acrylation / methacrylation / Allylation / (Meth)acrylamide formation
• Ketoxime formation
• Ketal and acetal formation and the deprotection to their respective analogues
• Bromination
• Epoxidation
• Quaternization
• Dehydration
• Esterification / Transesterification
• Ultra-High Vacuum Distillation through a Specialised ‘Short-Path / Wipe-Film’ Evaporator.
• Formulation ‘know-how’ for Silicone Hydrogel and IOL polymers. Quality ControlAcryate R&D Ltd have extensive analytical equipment and offer an Analytical Services to customers who may need to outsource testing, inspection and certification of materials. Analytical capabilities Gas Chromatography (GC) utilising:
• Flame Ionisation (FID)
• Thermal Conductivity (TCD)
• Split / Split-less Capillary High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) utilising:
• Gradient or Isocratic Elution techniques
• Ultra-Violet Light Detection
• Refractive Index Detection
• Light Scattering Detection
• Gel Permeation (GPC) / Size Exclusion (SEC) Chromatography
• UV-Visible Spectroscopy
• FTIR Spectroscopy
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
• Karl-Fisher Titration
• Melting Point Analysis For analysis requiring specialist equipments such as 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, Mass Spectroscopy (MS) and MALDITOF Acryate R&D Ltd have close links to Manchester, MMU and UMIST Universities. Contract R&D & ManufacturingAcryate R+D Ltd offer a highly confidential custom R&D and manufacturing service. Single and multi-stage synthesis is carried out under technology transfer from the customer to ARD.
Acryate R&D can manufacture existing materials or develop materials for specific applications. Custom ManufacturingProducts are manufactured for a single customer, using ARD technology, usually under long-term supply agreement.
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