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About Applied Separations, Inc.

Applied Separations was started in 1987 with the mission to provide sample preparation products to today's analytical laboratory. In the advancement of that mission, a strategic decision was made to supply both consumable products and instrumentation to this marketplace.

Applied Separations was one of the early participants in Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Partnership, located on the Lehigh University campus, an incubator program for high technology start-up companies. The company secured research grants to develop manufacturing methods to produce consistently high quality Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) chromatography sorbents. The line of consumable SPE cartridges was marketed under the trade name Spe-ed - solid phase extraction and elution device.

In 1992, Applied Separations entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a low-cost supercritical fluid extraction instrument that overcomes many of the shortcomings of the instruments currently in the marketplace. The culmination of this effort, two years later, was the Spe-ed SFE. Two of the foremost experts in supercritical fluid extraction, Dr. Jerry King and Dr. Robert Maxwell, have lent their names to the Spe-ed SFE project. Market acceptance of the Spe-ed SFE was overwhelming.

Applied Separations continues to be on the cutting edge of SCF technology, developing new systems to meet customers demand. The SCF line now includes: the Spe-ed SFE-Prime for teaching SCF in the college laboratory; the original SCF bench-top laboratory systems; the Helix modular SCF system; the 2Tech-L/S Movable/Small Pilot system; Custom designed and Large Scale Production SCF systems. These SCF systems are used for a multitude of applications such as the development of the breast cancer drug “tomoxifen” (taxol), nano-particle research, MIM debinding, archaeological restoration, aerogel drying, medical device cleaning, and natural products, just to name a few.

In the late 1990s, Applied Separations added two product lines. The fast PSE and one PSE were developed to answer a need in the pressurized solvent extraction field. The PSE replaces slow traditional extraction methods, saving time, money and solvents

In addition, Applied Separations has expanded their extensive SPE line to include Flash Chromatography products. Applied Separations now works hand-in-hand with Xenosep to produce Oil and Grease disks and QuEChERs.

Applied Separations also offers custom filling in DNA-free clean room facilities for the contract filling of filters, packings, sorbents (proprietary or generic) in spin baskets, polypropylene cartridges, and 96-well micro-titer plates, or any other configuration.

In May 2001, Applied Separations received an Allentown Downtown Economic Development Achievement Award. The award is given annually to "...a corporation, partnership, or organization which has undertaken and/or completed a physical development project, such as the reuse or rehabilitation of an existing building or the construction or a new building, resulting in significant investment, job creation, and overall positive impact on the economy of the City of Allentown."