Expansion of worldwide operations leads to year on year growth

Royston, UK – Following the opening of its Brazilian subsidiary in January and new product launches, leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris, has had an exceptionally strong start to 2010. With total sales order values up 42 % on the first six months of 2009, Syrris has expanded its product range with the introduction of the new Asia flow chemistry pump. Reflecting this success, Syrris now boasts a global network of over 30 distributors, including Argentina, Poland and Spain, as well as subsidiary offices in the US, Japan and India. This makes the complete product offering available worldwide, with extensive customer service and support.

“2010 has been a great year for us so far, with a significant increase in customer sales”, commented Mike Hawes, Chief Executive Officer. He continued, “We hope to continue this success in the second half of the year, and are very excited about the upcoming launch of some significant new products.”

Syrris designs and manufactures world-leading flow chemistry, microreactor and automation products for research and development chemists. The company strives to provide a comprehensive, high-quality product portfolio and there will be a number of exciting new releases to the Asia flow reactor and Atlas batch reactor ranges in the second half of the year. With particular success in Thailand, India, US and Australia, the Syrris team has recently announced further expansion in its sales, support, engineering and marketing departments.

For more information about Syrris’s complete product offering, including Atlas, Asia, Africa and FRX, 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.