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VWR Chemicals

VWR Chemicals are our own wide range of laboratory and industrial chemicals with guaranteed high quality, detailed specifications, safe packaging and excellent service offering great value for money.

Everything from basic technical reagents to high purity chemicals for trace analysis plus extensive speciality ranges for applications like microbiology, cell diagnostics and life sciences.

From quick dip and go pH strips to reagents for Hach instruments, plus COD and ion chromatography standards for instrumental analysis.

From HPLC, GC and IC through TLC, preparative and flash chromatography, VWR offers the most extensive ranges of columns, reagents and solvents for chromatographers in all industries. The VWR Collection also offers an extensive range of vials, syringes and other consumables to make separations easier!

From the most exacting sample preparation with NORMATOM® high purity acids, specialist ranges tailored to specific analysis including NMR. Karl Fischer and AAS to ARISTAR® ICP/ICP-MS and AVS® TITRINORM® IC standards.

Recent acquisitions of specialist solvent manufacturers has increased VWR’s capacity and capability– from AnalaR® NORMAPUR® for analytical work, RECTAPUR ® for everyday tasks and TECHNICAL® for the basics to the ultra high purity chromatography HiPerSolv® CHROMANORM® for the most precise separations. Specialist ranges include SpectrosoL® / SPECTRONORM for spectroscopy, PESTINORM® for GC, deuterated NMR solvents and anhydrous in versatile packaging.

VWR Chemicals offers over 400 reagents suitable for many inorganic and analytical applications. The specifications quote guaranteed maximum permitted limits of impurity and have a 98% stock availability. Choose from AnalaR® NORMAPUR® for analytical work, RECTAPUR ® for everyday tasks and TECHNICAL® for the basics to the ultra high purity Ultrapure NORMATOM® for almost invisible sample preparation in trace analysis. Speciality products such as Kjeldahl catalysts, Karl Fischer titrants as well as products compliant with ACS, Reag.Ph. Eur. and USP requirements are available.

VWR offers a comprehensive range of cell diagnostic reagents including fixation, dehydration and embedding in paraffin wax. A full selection of stains and dyes plus mountants and immersion oils enable full visualisation of samples.

Our microbiology portfolio includes dehydrated culture and ready to use media for a wide variety of applications in many different industries, including pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, dairy, environment and water control.

Metal trace analysis and detection