Dr James Rixson (PhD organic chemistry) is excited to take on a change in role title to the newly established position of Epichem’s Head of Production – broadening his responsibilities to oversee Fine Chemicals and Technical Services as well as Reference Materials.

As part of our ISO 17034 accreditation, we use the “100%” method to assess the purity of our reference materials.   This method is very accurate, except in the case of molecules with poor chromophores or inadequate HPLC.   We have recently used qNMR more frequently to assess final purity of our reference standards. Our … Read more

Our new steroid category is growing and consists of both fully characterised reference standards made under our ISO 17034 and ISO 17025 accreditation such as EPL-AA211 (Δ9,11-promestriene) and our high purity fine chemical steroids such as EPL-DV4 (17α-methyltestosterone).   We are also proud to announce that Epichem has made its first sale from the new … Read more