55,000 SQFT FACILITY WITH END-TO-END SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESS

Located on four acres in the heart of a chemical-friendly environment near Philadelphia.

Our Plant

Our facility, located on the waterfront in Chester, Pennsylvania, has been a site of commercial manufacturing since colonial times. Initially a manufacturing center with industries concentrating on machinery, metal manufacturing, locomotive, shipbuilding and textiles, our site became the home to the Ford Motor Company as an automobile assembly plant from 1927 to 1961. With a return to metal product manufacturing, Reynolds Metal producing wire and cable products in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1987, Norquay has continued the long heritage of commerce in Chester - operating a chemical manufacturing facility that produces specialty materials used in many high end consumer goods from construction and household good to mobile phones, automobiles to airplanes, new currency new devices and beyond.

Commercial Production Scale Equipment:

Distillation:

12 – 500 gallon12 – 500 gallon
Temperature: -10°C to 165°C
Vacuum: as low as 1 Torr

Glass, glass-lined/Teflon wetted surfaces
- Including a 100 gallon 15-plate all glass/Teflon® system

Structured packing:

100 gallon vessel - Ceramic – 6” diameter
250 gallon vessel - 316 SS – 6” diameter 18 theoretical plates
1,500 gallon vessel - 316 SS – 8” diameter 15 theoretical plates

Filtration:

Sparkler, Filtration Engineering
Centrifuges
Filter Dryers
Vertical Plate Filters
Line Filters

Drying:

Teflon-lined double cone dryer
316 SS rotary vacuum dryer
Filter Dryers

- All vacuum dryers are equipped with condensers, receivers, and dust collectorss

Utilities:

Steam: 150 psi
Hot Oil: to 250°C (future)
Chiller: to -20°C
Cooling Tower Water
Compressed Air
Breathing Air

Analytical Lab:

Supporting production as well as lab development, scale-up and commercialization:

HPLC [UV visible]
GC [column and capillary]
IR & UV spectrophotometers
Karl Fischer

We also run the classic wet chemistry analyses, and take advantage of nearby NMR, and EPA-certified lab testing.