Tucson Facility

4231 S. Fremont Avenue

Tucson, AZ 85714

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Our Tucson facility specializes in world-class R&D services including process development, custom polymer synthesis, product commercialization and small to medium-scale production. Our technical staff have extensive knowledge of difficult polymerizations and are ready to help to commercialize your new or revised products. Whether you require a proof-of-concept study, a complete process development program or a manufacturing partner, Polymer Chemistry Innovations is prepared to work with you to meet your goals.

In addition, we understand that the solutions and services we provide must be commercially viable - and we work closely with our customers to achieve realistic final product costs that are realistic within their end-use market's economics.

Equipment & Capabilities

Polymerizations
A series of small stainless steel reactors are used for scale-up, producing from 2 to 45 gallons of material, carried out in our 6-gallon or 50-gallon reactors. Small-scale production is carried our in our
50-gallon, 175-gallon and 430-gallon stainless steel reactors. All of our reactors are equipped for high-viscosity bulk polymerizations and run under an inert atmosphere of nitrogen.

Reaction/Distillation Pilot Plant
Two packed distillation columns of 6-inch diameter with up to 100 HETP perform continuous, batch or semi-continuous distillations. The facility is also equipped with one 35-gallon SS316 reactor rated for 160°C at FV/45 psi internal and 160°C at 125 psi jacket.

Production Scale
PCI has various stainless steel reactors and related processing equipment dedicated to specific customer requirements, and the ability to rapidly place additional equipment on-line for new projects.

Analytical services available through cooperative agreements with the University of Arizona

NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)

• 200-, 300-, 500-MHz instruments available for a variety of one-dimensional and two-dimensional experiments with probes for 1H, 13C, 31P and 19F spectroscopy
  
  
• 200-MHz solid-state magic-angle spinning (MAS) and cross-polarization (CP) for polymer analysis.