Specialized Services in Extraction & Purification
SiliCycle, your partner of choice when it comes down to active ingredients from various biomasses.
Our Extraction & Purification Division offers services to help other companies to develop or purifiy their products.




Amongst our most requested services are:
- Water or organic extraction of various molecules
- Enrichment and fractionation for ingredients
- Purification processes from laboratory to industrial level
- Pesticides analysis and removal
- Development of analytical methods to access and measure the requested purity
For example, we offer
- The development of extraction processes from different biomasses
- The refining and purification of natural oils enabling us to reach ultra-high grade of purity
- The production of health ingredients such as Omega-3, Polyphenols and Probiotics
- The extraction of essential oils and hydrosols from the boreal forest
- Various technologies to scale up processes from laboratory to industrial level
Our analytical laboratory services include :
- Characterization and purity analysis
- Elemental analysis
- Heavy metal content
- Lost on drying
- etc.
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Overview of some of our extraction & purification equipments
- Alembics (30 L, 180 L, 1,300 L & 5,000 L)
- Blenders, Grinders & Mixers (various sizes)
- Centrifuge Filtration Devices (various sizes)
- Rotary Evaporators (various sizes)
- Lyophilization / Freeze Drying Equipments (5 L & 5,600 L)
- Reactors & Fermentation Tanks (20 L, 100 L, 200 L, 300 L, 400 L, 500 L, 1,000 L & 4,000 L)
- Several Instruments for Analysis, Chromatography & Purification
Overview of some of our analytical equipments
- Agilent, Load and Lock Column (DAC) 500 mm x 25 mm & 500 mm x 50 mm
- Agilent, Load and Lock Hydrolic Packing Station
- Applied Biosystems®, MDS Sciex®, LC/MS/MS, API 3000
- Biotage®, Flash Chromatography system, SP4™
- Büchi®, Flash Chromatography system, Sepacore®
- Büchi®, Syncore® Polyvap
- CEM®, Discover®, Microwave Synthesizer
- Electrolab, Tap density tester, ETD-1020
- Gilson®, Flash Chromatography System, Spot Prep II
- Gilson®, Preparative LC-MS systems , Flexar SQ 300MS
- Gilson®, Solid phase extraction, GX-274 ASPEC
- Gilson®, Tapping sieve shakers, SS-8R
- Labconco, Lyophilizer, FreeZone™ Bulk Tray Dryers
- Malvern Instruments™, Mastersizer 2000™, Hydro 2000S Particle Size Analyser
- Mettler Toledo®, Karl Fischer, Coulometric KF Titrator C20
- Mettler Toledo®, Karl Fischer, Volumetric KF Titrator V20
- Micromeritics®, BET, TriStar
- Micromeritics®, BET, TriStar II
- PerkinElmer®, 2400 Series II CHNS/O Analyser
- PerkinElmer®, FT-IR Spectrometer, Spectrum 100®
- PerkinElmer®, GCFID, Gas Chromatograph, Clarus 400®
- PerkinElmer®, GCMS, Gas Chromatograph, Clarus 600®, Mass Spectrometer, Clarus 600C
- PerkinElmer®, ICP-EOS, Optima 2100DV®
- Sartorius®, Moisture Balance, MA30
- Shimadzu®, Prominence®, Preparative Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
- SiliCycle MiniBlock®
- Syrris Asia®, 220 Flow Chemistry
- Thermo Finnigan®, HPLC, Surveyor®
- Thermo, HPLC with Photodiode Array Detector, Surveyor Plus®
- VWR®, pH meter, SympHony SB70P®
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