Syrris for Beginners - Syrris - Learn About Syrris

This page is for people not familiar with the world of chemistry. If you are not a chemist, please read on...

Syrris designs, manufactures and sells high quality, easy to use, automated products for laboratory chemists. We have hundreds of customers throughout the world including all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, etc) and many major academic institutions.

What our customers have in common is they spend most of their time performing or optimising chemical reactions i.e. mixing chemicals together and monitoring what happens. The chemicals being synthesised can be virtually anything e.g. new medicines, lubricants, soaps, pesticides, bio diesels, nanoparticles, paints, etc.

Syrris product range

Syrris products are typically referred to as chemical reactors and can range in size from very small (for reactions in microlitres) to very large (up to 250 litres). What makes our products unique is that despite offering unrivalled sophistication and quality, they are the easiest to use and most versatile products available in the world.

Our head office is in Royston (near Cambridge) in the UK where we design and develop our products. It is also our manufacturing, testing and distribution centre. We have subsidiary offices in the USA, India, Japan and Brazil for sales, marketing and customer support. As well as our own sales and support staff, Syrris also has over 30 distributors worldwide who represent Syrris products.

Batch reactor systems

Chemistry is typically performed by mixing chemicals in glass reactors with heating/cooling and stirring. This is known as batch chemistry. Syrris sells very sophisticated batch reactors that can be totally automated i.e. they can control the reaction temperature, reaction time, stirrer speed, etc. by using our PC software. They are also extremely chemically resistant and are designed to keep working even when spillages occur.

The main product family for our batch reactors is called Atlas and it is designed to be the easiest to use reactor system anywhere in the world. It does not need any tools as everything just clicks together and devices such as sensors are detected and their data recorded automatically. For more information, see our Atlas product page and watch our Atlas overview video.

'Flow chemistry'

Syrris also develop and sell products that use a novel and more controlled way of mixing chemicals known as flow chemistry. In flow chemistry, the chemicals (dissolved in a liquid solvent) continuously flow together at a “T-junction” or “cross roads” in what is known as a microreactor. The performance (efficiency and purity) of a chemical reaction is very dependant on the reaction conditions.

Our flow chemistry reactor systems allow parameters such as reaction temperature, reaction time and the amount of each chemical used to be quickly changed and to analyse the result of these changes. This makes optimising chemical reactions extremely fast.

Contact us if you would like any further information.

The Syrris overview video gives a good insight into the company, click here to watch.