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Intelligent Research and Development

Whether you need an off-the-shelf solution or custom-engineered intermediates that meet your precise purity, quality and reliability specs, SI Group delivers.


From the beginning, we immerse ourselves in your business to achieve a profound understanding of your objectives, markets, and operations - enhancing the properties of your products, creating real value and delivering enduring success.


We work hard to help you to solve your toughest application challenges. By working together we build strong relationships to help us better understand your needs.


What does our Smart and Immersive Approach to R&D do for our Customers?

We have a reputation of developing technologies that help our customers improve raw material yields, product purity, and be the most competitive in the marketplace. We help them with the development of their raw materials, which allows them to be the first to market with a new product or application.


We are global in all areas of our business including Manufacturing, Sales, Research and Marketing. We strive to bring the best and latest market intelligence to each endeavor we undertake, thus helping us and our partners make smart decisions when contemplating new opportunities and the required investments.


We have specialized areas of competence at various Technology Centers around the world. This allows our scientists the ability to continuously develop and expand our portfolio, all in an effort to speed up timing to market for our customers.


What Capabilities and Areas of Expertise enable us to be YOUR Partner of Choice?

  • State-of-the-art laboratories in Niskayuna, New York; Navi Mumbai, India; Rio Claro, Brazil; Pratteln, Switzerland.

  • R&D is globally positioned and includes a highly trained staff of experienced Chemists, Engineers and Technicians

  • Expertise in alkylation, condensation, oxidation, esterification and hydrogenation.

  • Expertise in designing and tailoring resins and oligomers that meet the customers application needs

  • Laboratories are well equipped to handle a full range of chemistries and reaction conditions, including:

    • fully automated bench top reactor systems for 24/7 unattended operations for catalyst evaluations and process development in fixed bed reactors

    • a number of Hastelloy high temperature and high pressure autoclaves

    • State of the art testing facilities

  • Pilot plant facilities to scale up process and provide customer with larger quantities of material for testing

  • Our laboratories are closely tied to a state-of-the-art Analytical Department, including our inorganics analysis capabilities (ICP-AES, ICP-MS, and Ion Chromatography). In addition we have expertise in GC - and HPLC - Mass Spectroscopy and ICP-Mass Spectroscopy.

  • Our experienced staffs of scientists are experts in performing industry standard test methods and are fully capable of developing new test methods to meet unique requirements. We currently provide problem-solving research services with an emphasis on developing new products as an ISO9002 certified laboratory.