Purolite is proud to be part of the ongoing studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and Polytechnique (Montreal).

Beverage companies use ion exchange to make their products safe for drinking?

Discover how immobilized enzymes are used for the production of Sofosbuvir, a widely-used antiviral treatment for hepatitis C.

Nylon production depends heavily on ion exchange resins?

Learn more about the amazing team behind our revolutionary protein A resin range, starting with R&D Manager Patrick Gilbert.

Customers shared their challenges with collagen and gelatin. We look at how ion exchange resins can help.

Did you know that Ion exchange resins are used to decolor natural sugar to create the white sugar commonly found in your kitchen?

Introducing Chromalite® MIDA: IMAC (immobilized metal affinity chromatography) resin designed to selectively capture His-tagged enzymes for biocatalytic processes.

In this blog post we look at how agarose chromatography resins have traditionally been manufactured before discussing new innovations in manufacturing

Did you know that gold, a staple in wedding rings (and happy marriages), is processed using ion exchange resins? Gold is expensive due to its amazing properties and its scarcity; only one out of every billion atoms of rock on the earth is gold.

Mid year update from Global Sales and Marketing Director Chris Major of the Purolite Life Sciences agarose division.

Ion exchange resins can help you to stop smoking. The nicotine is primarily responsible for causing addiction to tobacco products. And as smokers try to kick the habit, their bodies have symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, which could cause symptoms like cravings, or urges to smoke, depression, trouble sleeping, irritability, anxiety, and increased appetite. Nicotine withdrawal can discourage some smokers from continuing with a quit attempt.

Purolite Donates to Hospital in Brasov, Romania

In this article, we analyse the growing industry need to reduce buffer consumption in the purification of proteins and monoclonal antibodies.

We look at the importance of chromatographic purification in the production of medical-grade cannabidiol (CBD) for modern therapeutics.

Did you know…Ion exchange resins and adsorbents help to prevent contaminants from doing any harm to the earth’s ozone?

Purolite is pleased to extend an invitation to attend a technical seminar, “Ion Exchangers for Demineralization and Electroplating: Theory and Practice.” The seminar, hosted and instructed by Purolite sales and engineer technical experts, will be held twice - June 17-18 in Bingen, Germany and November 25-26 in Ratingen, Germany.

Important regulatory considerations when sourcing a new resin supplier.

Purolite is pleased to extend an invitation to attend a technical seminar, “Ion Exchange Resins for the Treatment of Water and Demineralization: Theory and Practical Studies.” The seminar, hosted and instructed by Purolite sales and engineer technical experts, will be held March 26-27, 2020 at The Yachts of Paris in Paris, France.

Did you know that ion exchange and adsorbent resins remove bitter compounds and acids from citrus juice — such as grapefruit, orange, and lemon — making them sweeter and more delicious!

There is now greater pressure on downstream purification processes to meet the demand from increased cell titers. But how can you meet this demand without negatively impacting your manufacturing footprint and process economy?

A presentation by Fred Ghanem looking at the two new product ranges of industrial adsorbents from Purolite Life Sciences.

Resin is the key to “time-release” formulations in medicine, so your body gets a nice even dose.

End of Year wrap up from Global Sales and Marketing Director Chris Major of the Purolite Life Sciences Agarose division.

Ion exchange resins help textile industries color their fabrics without coloring the water they send out into the environment?

A state-of-the-art column packing training facility, with best-in-class pilot and process-scale equipment for optimal MAb bioprocessing.

An analysis between two different agarose-based chromatography resins, packed as per manufacturer’s instructions into two commonly-used columns at smaller scales

After a long round of hard-fought Cornhole matches, a champion team has been decided for Purolite's Fall 2019 Cornhole competition. The final match was set and played on October 18th, 2019 in the G-Street parking lot. This year's advanced competitors, Corn Bytes and G-Street's Beauty & the Beast faced-off in an exciting round of Cornhole as the crowd held their breath. A champion team has been declared!

Amanda Dolan, Purolite's CRM Integration Manager, has been nominated as a leader in Tech Optimization and Modernization by the Constellation Research Firm in their 2019 Supernova Awards! Help her win by voting now!

For the purposes of chromatography, agarose is widely considered the best material available for the protein purification resins.

An explanation of volume and number particle size distribution in chromatography resins.

Purolite's Latin American Regional Team hosted their first ever sales meeting at the Marriott in Park City, Utah!

Purolite exhibited at American Water Works Association (AWWA) ACE19 from June 9th to June 12th at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

Discover how to optimise processes using modern, robust, high performing enzyme carriers

The regulatory environment is ever-changing, driven by increasing regulatory requirements, increasing development costs and times, and market pressures impacting pharmaceutical and food industries.

Join us for round-up of key R&D updates each quarter.

As we approach the second half of 2019, I wanted to provide a business update with respect to progress of the Agarose Chromatography division of Purolite Life Sciences

In order that the purification process and the final product are robust and secure, it is vital that chromotography columns are properly packed and qualified in a reasonable time frame.

Praesto® Jetted A50 resin is the first product designed by combining the new technology for continuous manufacturing of agarose beads with a novel alkaline-stable Protein A ligand.

As a result of the success of Purolite’s payroll initiative to collect donations for the Children's hospital of Philadelphia, Purolite employees were invited to volunteer at the hospital’s main location in Philadelphia for a Volunteer Craft Hour.

With the continued growth and therapeutic commercial importance of mAb production, the availability of high-quality agarose resins is critical.

Protein A affinity chromatography continues to be the preferred method for commercial purification of antibodies because of its high selectivity and robust resin performance over repeated purification cycles.

Purolite's Jord Yniguez presents at the Water Quality Association's Convention & Exposition 2019 about removing PFAS from water using ion exchange resins.

In addition to a complete range of enzyme carriers - Lifetech™ ECR, the Purolite Life Sciences team has developed ready-to-use immobilized enzymes for a variety of applications in industry. The immobilized enzymes developed at Purolite cover different groups such as transferases, hydrolases, isomerases etc.

Today, Purolite has one of the world’s largest agarose resin manufacturing facilities - producing a range of high flow agarose Protein A chromatography resins specifically designed to give purification performance equal to, or better than, today’s market leading agarose resins.

Product data sheets are now available in Romanian and Polish.

What can our jetting process do for you? Purolite Life Sciences uses Jetting to produce both copolymer and agarose-based resins, and are the only resin supplier in the world with the ability to manufacture jetted agarose products.

Seeded polymerisation: mono-size, ultra-fine beads for chromatography

Purolite exhibited at the 2019 Energy Generation Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Purolite's production plant invited UniFirst First Aid and Safety to train employees in emergency first-Aid.

After their regional sales meeting, the Chinese sales team headed over to Okinawa beach for fun team-building activities.

As we move ever closer to the end of another successful year, the team at Purolite Life Sciences would like to wish you a happy and prosperous 2019.

Purolite celebrates the wintertime holidays by hosting a luncheon at Pietro's pizza.

Purolite hosts it's annual International Sales meeting for 2018 in Sicily, Italy.

With more than 30 years’ experience in the biotech business, along with more than ten patents in the area of resin design and large-scale protein purification, Hans Johannson is the Global Applications manager for Agarose.

Bala Cynwyd Employees all contribute to the annual Thanksgiving Potluck with their home cooked meals.

Purolite attended the IWC conference and exhibition in Scottsdale, AZ as a Gold Sponsor.

Purolite Life Sciences continues to lead the future of chromatography with the expertly-designed Chromalite® M range of methacrylic resins.

A champion team has been declared for the third bi-annual Cornhole Tournament, fall 2018.

Purolite has developed the widest range of synthetic polymers for all of your purification and chromatography needs. For any separation by reverse-phase (RP) or ion exchange (IEX); our Chromalite® range has a product for your needs.

20 year Senior Sales Support Specialist, Linda Bailey, is retiring October 31st, 2018.

Purolite attended EPRI's 21st International Converence on Water Chemistry in Nuclear Reactor Systems from September 7 – September 15 in San Francisco, USA.

Earlier this month, Purolite Life Sciences attended BioProcess International 2018, part of Biotech Week in Boston.

Purolite Life Sciences has adopted software from Ideagen as it looks to enhance quality and compliance processes at its new manufacturing, research, development and quality centre of excellence site based in South Wales.

Purolite Canada, Russia, South Africa, and USA meet at the first Extraction Meeting in Canada to discuss chelating resins and ion exchange for metals reuse and removal with conference attendees.

On Saturday, July 21, 2018 employees and family from Purolite's G-Street production plant and Bala Cynwyd corporate headquarters met at Mermaid Lake for a summer barbeque and celebration.

Howard Ramsden and James Rosie attended the 2018 British and Irish Association for the Properties of Water and Steam Conference (BIAPWS) that focuses on Power plant chemistry at the University of Warwick in Coventry, U.K. 26 and 27 June, 2018

Purolite's Customer Service Manager attended the Culligan Commercial & Industrial Forum.

AWWA connects the water sector with innovative solutions and new insights to solve challenges around the world.

Purolite exhibited at CPhi/InformEx that ran from April 24 - 26, 2018 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, PA. Conference delegates and industry professionals gathered over three days to strategically address the challenges and future opportunities of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Purolite attended the annual SynGas conference hosted by the SynGas Association in Tulsa, OK.

Representatives from Purolite attended the spring meeting of the New England Water Works Association in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Representatives from Purolite attended the 83 Annual Conference of the NJ chapter of the AWWA in Atlantic City.

Purolite A120S is integral to zero liquid discharge systems in the textile dyeing industry.

Purolite will be at a range of trade shows in 2018 to support all market segments. Trade shows and conferences provides a great opportunity to meet with customers face to face. Contact the Purolite sales team for a meeting.

On February 27, The First Minister of Wales, Right Honourable Carwyn Jones, visited Purolite's global headquarters in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Purolite employees prepare for Super Bowl LII

Employees from corporate and G Street came together for a fun holiday party in Conshohocken.

Purolite office and production employees in Philadelphia helped raise over $300,000 this year in support of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children's Fund. In December 2017, local radio station WOGL hosted a radiothon where representatives from our top fundraising departments volunteered on the phones to support the cause.

Employees spent their weekend shopping, cooking and baking to make a mid-day holiday potluck luncheon a fun and delicious success.

Purolite got into the spirit of the holiday this year as employees dressed in their finest and spookiest costumes. Participation was strong, but only one person at each location could win the big prize for best costume.

Purolite employees in North America sponsored a fundraiser for the American Red Cross to raise money to help people devastated by the three back-to-back hurricanes in 2017.

Purolite has the largest, most knowledgeable sales force of any in the industry—yet it doesn't happen that way by chance. We take pride in offering comprehensive training for sales and applications teams.

Employees from Purolite USA went outdoors to view the 2017 solar eclipse during the peak viewing time of 2:44 p.m. EST.

Purolite's headquarters building in Bala Cynwyd is getting an interior cosmetic renovation and an exterior overhaul to enable construction of neighboring residences and a parking garage.

Purolite's Oliver Baumann took time out of his schedule to join team members from Duke Energy's Gibson Generation Station in their 2017 fundraiser supporting The United Way of Gibson County in Illinois.

On May 3, 2017, Purolite's office in Tunis, Tunisia held an inaugural customer gathering to discuss water treatment solutions for the region's target water concerns. Over 40 people were in attendance to meet Kacem Triki, Purolite's Technical Sales Engineer in Tunisia, as well as Edgar Berreby, Purolite Vice President for the region, and Fayçal Finnouche, Sales Manager for Algeria — while enjoying the afternoon.

CPhI / InformEx, a recent tradeshow recently held in Philadelphia, PA, USA for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, not only brought a community of industry experts together for business, it also helped to introduce the world to the city's vibrant cultural and arts programs.

Purolite exhibited at CPhi/InformEx that ran from May 16 – 18, 2017 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, PA. Conference delegates and industry professionals gathered over three days to strategically address the challenges and future opportunities of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element that can contaminate potable drinking water and negatively impact our health. Purolite resins are highly effective at removing uranium from potable water systems—large and small—keeping drinking water safe.

Purolite takes pride in thoroughly training our technical and sales employees—and the training doesn’t stop at a specific point in time. Senior leaders are always ready, willing and able to extend experienced assistance and time, and our Canadian Technical Sales team illustrates this concept well!

Purolite's Frank Burinsky and Oliver Baumann were in Bismarck, ND the week of January 24 – 26 to discuss how Purolite resins can improve the efficiency of ion exchange and condensate polishing systems used in power generation.

Terry Heller and Darrel Shaffer can be found in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA attending the 2017 ISOE ALARA Symposium for radiation protection professionals. Attendees should visit Booth 21 to talk to Terry and Darrell about Purolite's nuclear grade macroporous cation & anion solutions for source term reduction, as well as Coseq® 73 highly selective precoat media for cobalt sequestration.

Purolite office and production employees in Philadelphia raised over $7,400 this year in support of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children's Fund. On November 29, 2016, local radio station WOGL hosted a radiothon where representatives from our top fundraising departments volunteered on the phones to support the cause.

Francis Boodoo, Purolite's Director of Applied Technologies, presented a peer-reviewed technical paper on SST resins entitled, "Reducing Demineralizer Cost with Shallow Shell Resins" at the International Water Conference.

Students from the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA) get a tour of the IWC exhibitors' floor and mini course in ion exchange technology by Tony Navarrete of GE Power and Water and Purolite's Chris Friesen. Great to meet all of the students at the show!

Discover Purolite's large-scale UK manufacturing facility for the production of agarose resins for the biologics industry, due for completion in 2017.

Keep your food production safe and your water in compliance. Purolite ion exchange resins remove arsenic, toxic heavy metals and contaminants from wells, watering systems for livestock, and production feed and rinse water. In fact, Ferrix™ regenerated arsenic media is playing a major role in food safety for a major egg producer in the USA.

A major Southern California drinking water plant has selected Purolite® A520E for nitrate remediation because of the resin's superior capacity for nitrate removal. The plant is now in service, sending safe drinking water to the public. Safe water begins with superior treatment. Learn more about our nitrate removal products and determine which is best for your municipal system.

Purolite ion exchange resins for multi-contaminant removal drastically reduce contaminants found in residential, commercial and industrial drinking water. Unlike traditional multi-tank systems that require a large footprint and are expensive to operate, Purolite resins work together in layered-bed, single-tank designs that can remove multiple contaminants at once. This approach not only saves on system footprint, but also reduces the costs associated with water consumption, regeneration chemicals and wastewater disposal.