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 to 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 have increased VWR’s capacity and capability – from AnalaR® NORMAPUR® for analytical work, RECTAPUR® for everyday tasks, Technical for the basics to the ultra-high purity chromatography, and HiPerSolv CHROMANORM® for the most precise separations. Specialist ranges include SpectrosoL / SPECTRONORM for spectroscopy, PESTINORM® for GC, plus deuterated NMR solvents and anhydrous material 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. Also 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.

Some key elements of laboratory management are safety, cleaning and lab auxiliaries. VWR offers an extensive choice of products for managing spills including the versatile Algosol, as well as basic spillage absorption granules. For housekeeping, LABWASH® offers a range of products for manual or machine washing. Also Included are some other interesting products such as greases and drying agents etc.

VWR offers a comprehensive range of cell diagnostic reagents including items for fixation, dehydration and embedding in paraffin wax. We also have a full range of stains and dyes plus mountants and immersion oils that 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 pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, dairy, environment and water control.