High performance resins & reagents for solid phase peptide and organic chemistry

Activotec (Cambridge, UK) a leading specialist supplier of innovative products, consumables and services for peptide and protein synthesis, has been appointed by Matrix Innovation Inc. (Quebec, Canada) as European distributor for its range of high performance resins and supported reagents for solid phase peptide and organic chemistry.

In addition to a comprehensive catalogue of more than 300 different standard products including resins, scavengers, supported reagents and preloaded resins - Activotec will also be able to offer European researchers custom synthesis of solid phase chemistry resins.

Chris Littlewood, CEO of Activotec, commented "The Matrix Innovation range of resins and supported reagents perfectly compliments our own expertise in the design and production of novel peptides and proteins for research purposes". He added " We are particularly excited about ChemMatrix^® resin, this new patented 100% PEG resin offers tremendous advantages over polystyrene resin for synthesis of long or complex peptides".

"Activotec's considerable experience of working closely with European peptide and organic chemistry laboratories was particularly appealing to us" said Rock Therrien, President of Matrix Innovation Inc. He added "We believe customers will benefit from the stability of local pricing and Activotec's commitment to provide a wide selection of resins and reagents on fast delivery from stock".

Founded in 2002, Activotec is a customer-focused company providing innovative custom synthesis services, instrumentation and chemicals for chemical research and development.