Expansion of worldwide operations to meet global demands
Royston, UK (1st February 2010) – Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris established its new Brazilian subsidiary at the beginning of January 2010. With offices on four continents and an expanding distributor network, the new office in São Paulo will enable Syrris to provide efficient and direct support to its rapidly expanding Latin American customer base.
Syrris designs and manufactures world-leading flow chemistry, microreactor and automation products for research and development chemists. The company’s flow chemistry products include the FRX, a modular flow chemistry system, and Africa, a fully-automated microreactor flow system. Syrris’s batch reactor products include Atlas, a manual or automated system for control of one or parallel reactions of up to 5 litres in vials, flasks or jacketed reactors. Within this innovative Atlas range is the Atlas Calorimeter, a high performance reaction calorimeter for heat flow and power compensation calorimetry.
“With a significant increase in customer sales in 2009, this is an extremely exciting way for us to begin the New Year”, commented Mike Hawes, Chief Executive Officer. He continued, “Establishing a subsidiary office in Brazil not only reflects the increasing interest in our product range worldwide, but more specifically the increased requirement for our complete product range within the Brazilian and Latin American research and development chemistry industry.”
Syrris’s new Regional Manager for Brazil, Leandro Nogueira, is a polymer chemistry engineer with ten years’ experience of supplying high technology systems to the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and ceramics industries, as well as universities and research centres.
With a global network of 30 distributors and subsidiary offices in the US, Japan, India, Brazil and the UK headquarters, Syrris’s complete product offering is available worldwide with extensive customer service and support. For more information about the Atlas, Africa or FRX product ranges, or for more detail about the development of Syrris Brazil and Latin America, please visit www.syrris.com.
Editors’ notes
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 laboratory automation products 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 has been used to establish a new subsidiary called The Dolomite Centre Ltd. This company is focused on design and fabrication of Microfluidic devices for a wide range of applications.
