Corning and University of Liège Announce First Advanced-Flow Reactor Qualified Lab in Europe

Corning and University of Liège Announce First Advanced-Flow Reactor Qualified Lab in Europe

University of Liege Opens Corning AFR Lab

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Corning and University of Liège Announce First Advanced-Flow Reactor Qualified Lab in Europe
Corning and University of Liège Announce First Advanced-Flow Reactor Qualified Lab in Europe
CORNING, N.Y. | Corning Incorporated | November 03, 2017

The University of Liège in Belgium recently established a Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) Corning® Advanced-Flow™ reactor (AFR) qualified lab at its Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis (CiTOS). Using AFR technology, the lab provides customers with continuous-flow demonstrations, experimental trials, feasibility testing, and chemical reaction process development.

This is the first qualified lab in Europe to offer AFR testing and process development services. Corning also has AFR-qualified labs in the United States and China. The lab at CiTOS is in close proximity to European customers and enables them to utilize Corning Advanced-Flow reactors.

“This collaboration with CiTOS is great for Corning, as we align with an academic institution that has passion and knowledge around continuous flow processing,” said Alessandra Vizza, regional commercial manager of Corning Reactor Technologies. “They offer expertise for our regional customer base while educating the next generation of chemists and chemical engineers.”

CiTOS specializes in continuous-flow organic chemistry and provides expertise to its customers to perform safe, complex, multi-step sequences; scale up; and fast lab-to-market transitions.

“Becoming the first European Corning Qualified Laboratory is a great honor for us and is the next level for our longstanding collaboration with Corning,” said Jean-Christophe Monbaliu, director of CiTOS. “Having access to Corning’s groundbreaking AFR technologies is definitively a major asset to our laboratory. We are committed to helping customers transition from batch to flow processing and to design scalable, continuous-flow processes as well as promoting flow-chemistry education.”

Corning’s Lab Reactor system, Photo reactor and Low-Flow reactors are available in the CiTOS lab to implement process development and identify appropriate processes that can be easily, safely, and seamlessly transferred to industrial production.

Corning’s AFR technology enables the continuous processing of chemicals with a smaller footprint than conventional batch reactors. They are also specially designed to enable the conversion of batch chemical processes to continuous processes. Corning’s reactors provide customers with cost-effective solutions, specialized engineering support, and process expertise.

Compared with traditional batch reactors, Corning’s reactors can enable at least 100 times enhancement in mixing, 1,000 times improvement in heat transfer performance, and seamless, efficient scale-up from the lab to full-scale production of chemicals for the pharmaceutical, specialty, and fine chemical industries.

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About University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium

Welcoming more than 23,000 students, of whom a quarter are of international origin (134 nationalities), 3,500 teachers and researchers, and offering one of the most diversified educational offers in francophone Belgium (38 bachelor’s degrees, 200 masters degrees, PhDs, numerous in-house training courses), the University of Liège has links with 1,000 institutions world-wide, integrated in vast international academic and scientific networks. ULiège is one of the largest employers in Wallonia (5,000 employees). ULiège also qualifies for European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), DS (Diploma Supplement) and HR Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) Labels granted by the European Commission, which guarantees the quality of the welcome and follow up support given to exchange students, PhD and Post-doc researchers. Attentive to the needs of society, ULiège plays an important role as a creator of activities with high value added and in providing dynamism to technological centres uniting business companies and public operators (Biotechnologies, Medical Sciences, Space Sciences and Industry, Environment, Agro-Bio Technologies, etc.)

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