ThalesNano
匈牙利ThalesNano www.thalesnano.com
H-Cube(R) 流動加氫催化反應器是一個獨立運作的臺式加氫催化反應設備。它獨樹一幟地結合流動化學原理，自帶靈活的氫氣發生系統以及可處理的催化劑柱。相較過去的傳統技術而言，H-Cube(R) 更加安全、迅速、高效及高產。ThalesNano 公司發明的 H-Cube 在內的一系列新型的加氫催化反應器具有縮短研發時間，增加成本效益，以及降低對環境所造成的影響等優勢，從而給新藥研發過程帶來巨大的利益。
ThalesNano is specialized in developing and providing microscale flow instruments for chemistry, by exploiting benefits of combining microfluidics, mesofluidics and nanotechnology with flow chemistry. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Budapest, Hungary.
The company is widely recognized for its expertise in transforming chemical processes to microscale continuous-flow operations and developing manual or robotic continuous microreactors for the chemical industry.
ThalesNano is a technology-intensive company whose results are strictly founded on its own R&D activities, which directly realize the company’s goals along with newer and newer innovative endeavors. H-Cube® hydrogenation reactor by ThalesNano has been awarded the R&D 100 Award 2005 by R&D Magazine and the Hungarian Industry Innovation Prize in 2005.
The company provides solutions for leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from all over the world.
ThalesNano is also a member of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association.
ThalesNano is a world-leading provider of continuous process technologies and flow chemistry instruments in the rapidly developing market of laboratory and process scale flow reactors.
The company has the widest portfolio of bench-top continuous process instruments. Its H-Cube® continuous-flow hydrogenation reactor and the pilot plant scale version H-Cube Midi™ are used in hundreds of laboratories in four continents and have become the new industry standard for hydrogenation.
Flow chemistry, an emerging technology, allows the rapid optimization and synthesis of organic compounds, including reactions with unrealizable hazardous reaction conditions. Additional benefits are seen in the area of Green Chemistry and lab automation. This technology also promotes the rapid scale-up from mg to kg quantities which in the long run will result in lower CAPEX and OPEX.
The miniaturization of chemical reactors offers many fundamental and practical advantages to the pharmaceutical industry in the synthesis of compounds for high-throughput screening.
Reactions performed in microreactors invariably generate purer products in higher yields and in shorter periods of time than the equivalent batch reactions. Sufficient quantities of product are produced to perform full instrumental characterization. One of the obvious applications of these systems is combinatorial chemistry and drug discovery, where the generation of compounds with either different reagents or under variable conditions is an essential factor. In short, microreactor technology has the potential to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry because the number of potential drug candidates that can be prepared and screened can be considerably increased. Therefore, the likelihood of developing new drugs is enhanced.
Microreactors are also more convenient and cost-effective than conventional systems. When running the same process in a microreactor array the scaling effort is prevented and fewer personnel are required to operate the continuous process. In a cost comparison calculation, it is assumed that yields are increased and the solvent consumption is reduced thanks to lower thermal buffering requirements.
Combinatorial chemistry and parallel synthesis of new drug candidates in microscale is an untapped area. ThalesNano has worked on this model and has developed a variety of chemical reactions with optimization at several levels. Combining these processes in series enables ThalesNano to perform combinatorial chemistry in a microfluidic environment on an industrial scale.
