Syrris Double Sales in 2009

Royston, UK — Syrris, a leading chemistry automation product innovator, was awarded the “Eastern Region’s UKTI Best Established Exporter” and the “Most Outstanding Export Achievement” at the recent Global Opportunity Conference on International Trade. The UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) trade awards are presented in recognition of successful overseas selling. This success has been further reflected by year on year growth of 130%, and Syrris now boasts a global network of 25 distributers. Combined with their subsidiary offices in the US, Japan and most recently, in India, Syrris’s complete product offering is available worldwide with extensive customer service and support.

Demonstrating its global outreach with 90% of 2009 sales to date from outside of the UK, Syrris design and manufacture world-leading flow chemistry, microreactor and automation products for research and development chemists. Syrris’s flow chemistry products include the FRX, a modular flow chemistry system and Africa, a fully automated microreactor flow system. Syrris’s batch reactor products include Atlas, a manual or automated system for control of one or parallel reactions up to 5 litres in vials, flasks or jacketed reactors.

Vic Annells, UKTI Regional International Trade Director commented, “We are delighted to recognise the achievements of such innovative, entrepreneurial companies who have succeeded in building their business overseas through the help of UKTI”. As such, Syrris is delighted to have received such a celebrated award.

For more information about any of the products in the Syrris portfolio, including the Atlas, Africa or FRX Systems, please visit www.syrris.com.

Syrris Limited

Established in 2001, Syrris Limited is one of the fastest growing science SMEs in the UK employing over 30 scientists and engineers at its facility in Royston (near Cambridge). Founders Mark Gilligan and Richard Gray come from a background of developing automation products for chemists at companies such as The Technology Partnership (TTP) and Mettler Toledo.

Syrris develops laboratory automation products for chemists such as the Atlas automated chemistry systems. Atlas can be configured into a wide range of different systems including Lithium and Sodium for round bottom flasks (magnetically and overhead stirred respectively) and Potassium for jacketed vessels. Other Atlas systems, designed for specific applications, including calorimetry, volumetric dosing, gravimetric dosing, pH, etc, are also available.

Syrris also specialise in flow reactors for R&D chemists, including FRX: a low cost flow chemistry system and Africa (Automated Flow Reaction Incubation and Control Apparatus): a modular system for library synthesis, aqueous work-up and reaction optimization that will ultimately reduce the time taken to develop, synthesize, screen and review a chemical entity, thus vastly speeding up the drug discovery process.

In recognition of its technological achievements, Syrris has been awarded a prestigious UK DTI SMART Exceptional Grant. Syrris has also won a significant DTi MNT (Micro and Nano Technology) award which has been used to establish a new subsidiary called The Dolomite Centre Ltd. This company is focused on design and fabrication of Microfluidic devices for a wide range of applications.