New owner for Chemtrix
The AGI Group has acquired Chemtrix, a Netherlands-based maker of flow reactors for industry and academia. It said that this “will bring flow chemistry scale-up capabilities into the AGI Group, supporting both pilot and manufacturing solutions”. Terms were not disclosed.
AGI is based in Japan and supplies precision manufactured glass equipment for chemical processing industries, including pharmaceuticals. It already owns Syrris, which supplies laboratory-scale flow chemistry systems, as well as the AGI Glassplant brand and Premex Reactor, a supplier of high pressure reactor systems and magnetic stirrers for R&D.
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