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our accelerating, standardizing, digitalizing automated solutions

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Our Technology

Accelerating, standardizing and digitalizing your existing workflows

Choosing or configuring your ideal automation and digitalization solutions have never been simpler with Chemspeed's inherent flexibility and modularity by design as your partner.

Combine a Chemspeed base platform, robotic tools or modules from our extensive libraries, reactors, vessels, racks, vials and software to create a system that compliments and enhances your workflow.

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01 Platforms

Our unique platforms

Chemspeed offers highly-versatile platform / workstation models as the basis for every possible tools to be housed in. 

Based on your application / workflow requirements, incl. throughput, scale, precision our workflow architects determine which platform is most suitable for your application and will design the configuration accordingly. These platforms can even be combined or connected to allow for virtually unlimited scope.

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CRYSTAL
Automated gravimetric solid dispensing in a compact and flexible benchtop solution.

FLEX
A compact footprint (90×90 cm / 3×3 ft.) saves precious lab space, all while maximizing your output. The FLEX systems target maximum efficiency in your lab, supporting your efforts to save time and costs, optimizing your return on investment.

SWING / SWING XL
The SWING platform and its “big partner”, the SWING XL, are designed to automate complex laboratory workflows.

FLEXSHUTTLE
Combine and connect as many FLEX units as you like into one integrated platform with our FLEXSHUTTLE. Dedicated FLEX units for specific tasks work in parallel, whilst samples are shuttled around the platform on the unique shuttle rails.
02 Tools

Extensive robotic tool library

More than 70 robotic tool-features can be integrated with Chemspeed’s proprietary and unique automated robotic tool exchange technology, including proprietary unrivaled overhead gravimetric dispensing of solids, liquids, viscous liquids, pastes as well as waxes, which can operate while mixing, heating, refluxing and cooling. Virtually any combination of these robotic tools is possible.

Action tools

Volumetric dispensing tools

Gravimetric dispensing tools

Analytic tools

Reactor tools

3rd-party tools

Action robotic tools

E.g. crimp capping, screw capping, ultrasonic dispersion, draw down and many more - Chemspeed's action robotic tools allow your solution to accomplish a huge range of tasks.

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Multigripper
  • Versatile multigripper for vial and well-plate gripping / transporting
    • Gripping range: 3.5 - 130 mm
    • Maximum grip: 50 N
  • Optional automated barcode scanner for sample tracking
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Screw capper
Highly versatile screw caps opening and closing
  • Vial diameter range: 10 mm - 50 mm (larger ranges available upon request)
  • Torque range: 0.1 Nm - 3.5 Nm
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Capping, crimping, decapping

Flexible electrical capping, crimping and decapping (N8 / N11 / N13 / N20)

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High-shear homogenizer

High-shear homogenization

  • Speed range: 11'000 rpm - 30'000 rpm
  • Active washing station
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Overhead stirrer
Overhead stirrer
  • Speed range: 20 rpm - 200 rpm
  • Different stirrer types available
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Ultrasonic dispersion and emulsification

Ultrasonic dispersion and emulsification (100 W) with active washing station

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Evaporation with e.g. N2 stripping and degassing with vacuum
Plate for N2 stripping and / or vacuum degassing
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Tool color testing. Blue paint on a glass plate.

Drawdown

Drawdown with disposable or reusable precision spiral and/or gap bars.
Free film generation.
Dip coating.
Spray coating.
Wet-on-wet coating.

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Robotic transfer arm

Robotic transfer arm to serve 3rd party instruments (e.g. centrifuge)

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SMOLE - Step change in R&D synthesis

Gamification of research & development - a paradigm shift in synthesis research.

It enables flexibility, diversity, standardization, and speed in the entire discovery process, i.e. synthesis, purification, sample management, reformatting and biology testing based on an unprecedented automation concept combined with SMOLE.

SMOLE is a disruptive, easy-to-use, standardized and ready-to-apply chemicals consumables technology which is key towards Gamification of synthesis research.

Volumetric robotic dispensing tools
High precision, chemistry proven volumetric dispensing of a wide range of liquids with extensions like heated needles, filtration needles, disposable tips, pH - eliminating any guesswork.
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Volumetric aspirating and dispensing of liquids

Liquid handling powered by 4 high-precision syringe pumps

  • Syringe volumes: 1, 10 or 25 mL
  • Viscosity range: 1 mPa.s - 100 mPa.s
  • Optional extensions:
    • Disposable tips (1'200 μL)
    • Filtration tips
    • Heated needles (up to 100°C)
    • pH measurement and control
    • Temperature measurement and control
    • Spray needles, coated needles, PEEK needles
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Volumetric liquefied gas dispensing

Volumetric liquefied gas dispensing with optional gravimetric control extension

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Parallel pH measurement and adjustment
Extension of liquid handling tool with up to 4 pH probes combined with dispensing needles for adjustment either from basic or acidic regime
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Parallel volumetric heated transfer
Extension of liquid handling tool with up to 4 heated needles
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Parallel filtration with volumetric liquid handling
Extension of liquid handling tool with up to 4 filtration tips at different porosities
Overhead gravimetric dispensing tools
Advanced tools used to perform automated, gravimetrically controlled dispenses of a vast range of solids / powders, extrudates, liquids, vicous liquids, pastes, waxes in the sub-milligram to multigram scale - even while sample processing.
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Overhead gravimetric dispensing unit for powders / solids (mg - g)
Overhead gravimetric medium dispensing of solids and powders
  • Dispensing container volume of 100 mL
  • Balance resolution: 1 mg  (100 μg or 10 μg with an on-deck balance)
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YODA Dispenser
Fast and highly precise dispensing of versatile solid materials.
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Gravimetric pick and dispense of solids and powders (μg - mg)
Overhead gravimetric matrix-to-matrix / 1:1 'pick & decision dispense' of solids and powders
  • Directly from virtually any source to any destination
  • Disposable pick & dispense glass tips (no dead volume)
  • Recommended dispensing range: μg to about 5 mg
  • Balance resolution: 100 μg or 10 μg
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Gravimetric pick and dispense of sticky liquids and semicrystalline solids
Overhead gravimetric 1:1 'pick & decision dispense' of liquid to sticky compounds directly from virtually any source to any destination
  • Disposable pick and dispense glass tips (no dead volume)
  • Balance resolution: 10 μg
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Overhead gravimetric dispensing unit for powders / solids fine dosing (mg - g)
Overhead gravimetric fine dispensing of solids and powders
  • Dispensing container volume of 30 mL
  • Balance resolution: 100 μg (or 10 μg with an on-deck balance)
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Powder L
Gravimetric dispensing of large amounts of solids and powders
  • Dispensing container volume of 5 L
  • Recommended dispensing range: 500 mg - 1 kg (can vary depending on substance properties)
  • Balance resolution: 10 mg
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Overhead gravimetric dispensing unit for highly viscous liquids
Overhead gravimetric dispensing of highly viscous liquids, pastes and creams
  • Weighing range: 1 mg - 100 g
  • Viscosity range: 1 mPa.s - 500'000 mPa.s (based on Newtonian substances)
  • Dispensing container volume of 65 mL
  • Balance resolution: 1 mg (or 10 μg with an on-deck balance)
  • Optional aspiration feature
  • Optional transfer of hot raw materials (up to 90°C) via heatable cartridges (e.g. for waxes)
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Overhead gravimetric aspirating and dispensing unit for (viscous) liquids with positive displacement tip
Overhead gravimetric aspiration and dispensing of (viscous) liquids
  • Viscosity range: 1 mPa.s - 15'000 mPa.s
  • Disposable positive displacement tips (0.1 to 12.5 mL)
  • Balance resolution: 1 mg (or 10 μg with an on-deck balance)
Analytic robotic tools
E.g. imaging with image analysis, pH, conductivity, NIR, particle size distribution, viscosity and many more - Chemspeed's analytic robotic tools assure measurement quality and can tackle any challenge.
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On-deck weighing module

Weighing Module, including:

•On-deck balance
•Resolution of down to 0.01 mg
•Balance holder & vial adapter
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Density measurement
Density measurement on the fly, while aspirating / dispensing
  • Aspiration technology
  • Balance resolution: 1 mg (or 10 μg with an on-deck balance)
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Brookfield Viskosimeter RVDV-II+ Pro BK

Brookfield viscometer

Brookfield viscometer (RVDV-II + Pro BK)

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Blue haze gloss unit. Applying blue paint on a panel.

Coating analysis
  • Tri gloss measurement
  • Thickness measurement
  • Color measurement
  • Precision tack-cure
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Particle size distribution measurement for suspensions and emulsions
  • Observation of e.g. dissolution, particle size distribution
  • Dynamic light scattering with temperature conditioning
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Injection ports for online analyses (e.g. HPLC, UPLC, GC, GPC, NMR, UV-VIS)

Types of online analysis available for connection include HPLC-(MS), UPLC-(MS), GC-(MS), GPC, NMR, UV-VIS

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Imaging with automated image analysis
Automated imaging with image analysis for e.g. homogeneity assessment
Reactor tools
Chemspeed offers a wide range of processing solutions like vials, tubes, plates, array reactors, process reactors, formulation vessels / blenders to allow for a large experimental space of chemistries and formulations, including various integrated analytics.
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Individual and parallel pH measurement and adjustment.

pH measurement and adjustment combined with process reactor for e.g. swinging pH-control per reactor

 

pH double needle system (stainless steel needles) to allow automatic pH measurement
and control. Alternative to the pH probes in each reactor

• incl. one pH probe (glass probe in stainless steel needle) with installation kit
• one dispensing needle in stainless steel
• allows for flexible pH measurement on-line 
• directly in formulation vessels, reactors and vials
• up to four parallel executed measure and control tasks possible
• pH control is possible through dedicated task, P-controller
• Washing station simultaneous washing of 2 pH probes
• pH  0 ... 14  (+/- 0.1) 
• installation for wet storage of pH needle.

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In situ NIR and MIR with quality by design process reactors
Extension of process reactors with per reactor NIR or MIR probes (PAT)
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Shakable, heatable and / or coolable racks for e.g. vials, plates
Shaking speed up to 1'000 rpm and temperature control from -20°C to 150°C.

Alternative mixing solutions like tumble stirrer for well-plates, parallel heat / cool / stir rack with magnetic bars for vials bottle sizes, dual asymmetric centrifuge for mixing whatever.
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Well-plate based small-scale / microL library synthesis
Flexible well-plate based fully automated reaction preparation, parallel synthesis, work-up, analysis enhanced with disposable glass reactors, pivotal SWILE for small-scale (μL) synthesis, and SMOLE (revolutionary, standardized, ready-to-apply chemicals consumables).
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Well-plate based CATSCREEN and SPEEDCHEM
CATSCREEN - unattended catalyst preparation and screening at ambient and elevated pressure in versatile 96-well plates with disposable glass vials / reactors.

SPEEDCHEM - automated, parallel library synthesis in verasatile 96-well plates with disposable glass vials / reactors under accelerating superheated conditions (van't Hoff rule).
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ISYNTH - parallel library synthesis in disposable glass vials

Multi-functional, high-precision disposable or reusable glass reactor arrays with screwless and self-sealing opening / closing and array integrated mixing by shaking (avoidance of grinding in case of solid-phase synthesis), heating, cooling, refluxing, vacuum, inertization, filtration, and drying compliant / in conjunction with overhead gravimetric dispensing of solids, …

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Microwave assisted library synthesis
High throughput MW-assisted library synthesis (e.g. small molecules, polymers, porous materials, cathode materials) with Chemspeed’s exchangeable robotic tools for gravimetric liquid handling, gravimetric solid dispensing, capping, de-capping, crimping and gripping, combined with e.g. Biotage, CEM microwave technology.
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High precision process reactors for optimization and scale-up
Quality by design (QbD), proven acceptable range (PAR) driven high-output process R&D / chemical development, preparative synthesis, work-up, and analysis
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High-precision 100 mL formulation vessel

Formulation vessels
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Solid-phase extraction
Work-up by solid-phase extraction (SPE) with variable cartridge sizes
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Liquid / liquid phase extraction and separation
No need for phase-boundary detection - extraction, the aspiration of all phases, and separation of organic and aqueous via phase separation cartridges.
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White vials. White plates. Dispensing unit. Tubes.

Filtration rack with heating for e.g. solid content measurement
  • Slurry transfer, filtration, heating and / or vacuum for drying
  • Combined with on-deck balance - weighing of filter cartridges for e.g. solid content measurement
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White reactors for ph crystallization screening on a white paper

Well-plate based crystallization and solubility screening
Crystallization screening via cooling, evaporation, anti-solvent on integrated glass-plate compliant with e.g. Bruker XRPD for subsequent measurement.
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Cutout laboratory unit. White chemical test tubes, black pin racks.

Sample racks / plates for offline analysis
  • Various sample racks for offline e.g. HPLC, UPLC, GPC, GC, NMR
  • Various sample plates for offline e.g. MALDI-TOF, AFM
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Close-up calorimetry high precision unit.

Parallel Calorimetry with Quality by Design Process Reactors
Extension of process reactors with per reactor calorimetry probes (PAT)
3rd-party tools
With Chemspeed's long history and experience of integrating the finest technologies from manufacturers across the world, we utilize the latest innovative tools to ensure that any process you require is able to be automated as part of your Chemspeed solution. This is a great advantage, as it allows for an optimization of a workflow that you already know.
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Centrifugation for e.g. solid / liquid separation
Centrifugation of vials, tubes, plates at 11'000 - 30'000 rpm
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Blue and white mixing unit for chemistry. White buckets. Filling paint into buckets.

Dual asymmetric centrifuge for ultimate mixing

Ultimate dual asymmetric centrifuge mixing which equals "mixing possible"
  • To overcome potential limitations of mixing by shaking, magnetic bars, stirring
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Robotic unit applying blue and green substrates. Blue and green paint panels.

Ovens for heat curing
Various ovens for e.g. heat curing, calcination, solid-phase chemistry
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Compacting / pressing
Various presses for e.g. tablet pressing, coin cell closure
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Blue centrifuge.

Mills for sample homogenization
Various mills for sample homogenization by milling - e.g. planetary mills, dual asymmetric centrifuge for mixing and milling / grinding
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Cut-out of a spin coating unit applying green paint on a white paper.

Spin coater
Formulation and spin coating for e.g. paints, optoelectronics with subsequent heat curing.
03 - FLEX Modules

Chemspeed FLEX module library

Our huge library of FLEX platforms contains a multitude of dedicated automation systems providing leading-edge technology to streamline your lab processes. Our unique tools such as patented overhead gravimetric dispensing technology, our reactor / vessel technology for synthesis or formulation, or our revolutionary gravimetric decision dispensing tools for solids / powders, liquids or honey-like compounds can all be integrated in these platforms.

Formulation and sample preparation

Logistics
Liquid dispensing
Powder dispensing
Mixing

Application

Logistics
Application
Curing

Characterization and testing

Liquid characterization
Liquid testing
Solid characterization
Surface testing

Miscellaneous

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FLEX BEAD DISPENSING

Automatic gravimetric dispensing system for beads (glass, zirconium...)

  • For beads diameter between of 0.4 to 2.0 mm diameter
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FLEX SCREWCAPPER

Automatic screw capping / decapping system

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FLEX LIQUID M (Gizmo)

Fully integrated automatic liquid dispensing system for medium amounts of liquids

  • Recommended dispensing range: 20 mg – 50 g (can vary depending on substance properties)
  • Viscosity range: 0.3 mPa.s – 100'000 mPa.s
  • Built-in weighing module 1 mg resolution
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FLEX COOLING

Automated cooling system for liquid samples

  • Cooling of a liquid sample during formulation process
  • Controllable cooling time
  • Various cooling liquids available (typically water/glycol)
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FLEX DISPERSION (dissolver)

Fully integrated dispersing system for stirring / dispersing / milling a variety of materials

  • Controllable speed and time
  • Various dissolver disk and impeller sizes (default: Teflon impeller disk, diameter 30 mm)
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FLEX FILTRATION (work-up)

Automatic work-up system for e.g. modified starch

  • Allows for filtration and transfer into a separated vessel, washing, drying, crumbling and grinding
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04 Software

Software that scales

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AUTOSUITE
Quickly design, execute, analyze and report experiments with your automated Chemspeed workstation. Start with a prebuilt workflow or design your own by dragging and dropping any number of predefined tasks to create your own application.
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ARKSUITE
Coordinate and orchestrate your laboratory workflows. Design flows to include any number of Chemspeed systems or even manual lab processes. Workflows, experiments, messaging, status and inventory management are all centralized within ARKSUITE.
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