Reach Separations (Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Onyx Scientific (Sunderland, United Kingdom) will collaborate on a strategic alliance to deliver specialist purification and separation services to the global pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
Reach Separations (Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Onyx Scientific (Sunderland, United Kingdom) will collaborate on a strategic alliance to deliver specialist purification and separation services to the global pharmaceutical and biotech industry. As part of the deal, Onyx will be able to offer custom separation for companies in drug discovery and intermediate environments. This includes chiral, reverse phase and normal phase chromatography using supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
“We have strong experience in the pharmaceutical outsourcing sector so understand the challenges and issues clients face. Our role will be to bring our expertise to the table and work as part of the Onyx team to ensure clients’ requirements are always met and timelines never exceeded, “ said Phil Abbot, technical director, of Reach Separations’ technical group.
Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific,added: “We were very impressed with the major equipment investment at Reach Separations and the team’s exceptional knowledge in understanding our clients’ challenges in small scale purification. Given this is an area that we have limited expertise and one that clients look to outsource, it made perfect sense for us to plug the gap and complement our existing services by working with Reach Separations.”
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