Corning and Nalas Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Lab in the United States

Corning and Nalas Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Lab in the United States

Corning and Nalas Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Lab in the United States

Corning & Nalas Announce First U.S. AFR Lab

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Corning and Nalas Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Lab in the United States
Corning and Nalas Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Lab in the United States
CORNING, N.Y. | Corning Incorporated | December 21, 2015

CORNING, N.Y. — Nalas Engineering has established a Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) Advanced-Flow™ reactor (AFR) lab at the Nalas facility in Centerbrook, Connecticut.

The lab provides customers with continuous-flow demonstrations, experimental trials, quick feasibility testing (QFT), and chemical reaction process development using Corning AFR technology. Corning and Nalas customers also use it for process development projects.

This is the first lab in the United States to offer AFR testing and process development services. In addition to being in close proximity to North American customers, this lab enables customers to evaluate Corning Advanced-Flow reactors. It also provides high-quality services and easy access to the Nalas facility.

“This collaboration is a good match,” said Dr. Yi Jiang, global business director for Corning Reactor Technologies. “By working with Nalas, we are able to demonstrate the benefits of Corning Advanced-Flow reactors, highlight the experience of our highly-skilled chemical engineering team, and provide existing and future customers with geographical convenience.  In addition, our customers can benefit from the vast experience Nalas has with companies across the U.S.”

Nalas has extensive chemical engineering expertise in various markets, including pharmaceutical, fine, and specialty chemical industries.  They work closely with small and large businesses throughout the U.S.  Nalas employs chemical engineers who are skilled at applying the principles of mass and heat transfer which are key parameters for the appropriate utilization of AFR reactors.

Corning’s Low-Flow and G1 reactors are available in the AFR lab at the Nalas facility to implement process development and identify appropriate processes that can easily and seamlessly be transferred to industrial production. Plans are under development to place a G4 production scale reactor at the Nalas facility.

“Nalas was formed to offer its customers ‘solutions that scale,’” said Jerry Salan, chief executive officer of Nalas Engineering. “Nalas has developed and commercialized many innovative continuous-flow processes that resulted in safe and low-cost manufacturing solutions for our customers. Corning Advanced-Flow reactors are an obvious extension of our engineering services. Teaming with Corning was the easiest decision I have made as CEO. We are humbled to be part of such a great team.”

Corning reactor technologies enable cost optimization for the manufacture of high-quality chemicals for pharmaceutical, fine, and specialty chemical industries. Compared with traditional batch reactors, Corning Advanced-Flow reactors can enable at least 100 times enhancement in mixing, 1,000 times improvement in heat transfer performance, and seamless and efficient scale-up from the lab to full-scale production. Corning's proprietary reactor technologies are compact, adaptable, and seamlessly scalable.

Corning is working with its partners and customers around the world to develop various continuous-flow manufacturing systems that optimize synthesis and downstream processing results. Economic, environmental, and regulatory benefits are helping to make continuous-flow manufacturing mainstream.

Nalas evaluates existing or new processes and provides recommendations tailored for implementation with the equipment and capabilities of its customers’ facilities. Nalas offers engineering services including all aspects of process development, enabling value-added solutions that scale to meet customers’ needs. Implementation of innovative technologies can result in significant annual cost savings.

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About Corning Incorporated
Corning (www.corning.com) is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science. For more than 160 years, Corning has applied its unparalleled expertise in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical physics to develop products that have created new industries and transformed people’s lives. Corning succeeds through sustained investment in R&D, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and close collaboration with customers to solve tough technology challenges. Corning’s businesses and markets are constantly evolving. Today, Corning’s products enable diverse industries such as consumer electronics, telecommunications, transportation, and life sciences. They include damage-resistant cover glass for smartphones and tablets; precision glass for advanced displays; optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions for high-speed communications networks; trusted products that accelerate drug discovery and manufacturing; and emissions-control products for cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles.

About Nalas Engineering
Nalas Engineering (www.nalasengineering.com) is an independently-owned engineering company, headquartered in Centerbrook, CT (US). Nalas offers chemistry and chemical engineering expertise enabling the development and transition of safe, sustainable, robust and lowest-cost chemical processes.