VWR Chemicals
Avantor® offers a wide range of laboratory and industrial chemicals under our leading brands, which are recognized for high quality, detailed specifications, safe packaging, excellent service and outstanding technical support.
Our portfolio features everything from basic technical reagents to high-purity chemicals for trace analysis, plus extensive specialty ranges for applications like microbiology, cell diagnostics and life sciences.
Environmental testing
pH test strips provide precise and rapid pH determination, with up to four color blocks for each pH value.
Powder pack reagents from VWR® Chemicals are designed for use with laboratory and portable photometers with 16-mm cell capability. No calibration data is necessary. The pillows, individually sealed in aluminum foil packs, are unaffected by ambient conditions and contain pre-measured powdered reagents for accuracy, convenience and high solubility.
Our VWR® Chemicals portfolio features a wide range of ISO 17034-certified reference materials for methods such as COD, TOC, turbidity measurements and photometry.
Chromatography
Avantor® ACE® columns incorporate the latest developments in LC stationary phase design to provide chromatographers with more choices for alternative selectivity, without compromising stability or robustness.
GC columns are suitable for analyzing a wide range of substances, such as solvents, alcohols, volatiles, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and other materials.
HPLC sorbents are used primarily for low-pressure preparative chromatography. Mesh specifications ensure the product does not contain an excess of fines, which could affect flow rate and separation performance.
Avantor® offers a wide range of standards (54 elements at 1000 mg/L) for food and beverage, environmental, pharmaceutical and other chromatography processes.
Our wide range of secondary GC reference standards are available for various chromatographic and analytical applications.
Instrumental analysis
Avantor® offers a complete range of deuterated solvents with high purity (>99.9%) and varying degrees of deuteration, available in a variety of pack sizes.
Choose from our large portfolio of Karl Fischer volumetric, coulometric and standard reagents adapted to all titrators for water determination.
A complete range of high-purity acids with impurities in ppb and ppt levels for sample preparation in metal trace analysis.
If you are searching for a specific volumetric solution, Avantor® can help you find the perfect reagent for your titrations.
Our AAS standards (1000 mg/L) are available in 100- and 500-ml pack sizes, traceable to NIST, ISO 17034 certified and delivered with a complete CoA.
Our comprehensive range of single- and multi-element solutions (available in 10, 1000, and 10 000 mg/L in 100- and 500-ml pack sizes) is traceable to NIST, ISO 17034 certified, and delivered with a complete CoA.
Proper calibration protects your research by preventing incorrect results. Find our extensive range of pH buffers and conductivity solutions available in many different formats.
See our wide range of certified reference materials for measuring physical properties such as viscosity, density, refractive index, osmolality and others.
Solvents
We provide a complete range of solvents for various analytical and R&D applications. Each has guaranteed specifications that conform to ACS and Reag. Ph. Eur. standards.
Select from a wide range of solvents with limited specifications for general laboratory use.
A superior-quality mobile phase with high UV transmittance, low residue on evaporation and batch-to-batch reproducibility is essential for avoiding unwanted ghost peaks. Our high-purity solvents deliver the performance you need.
Our high-purity LC-MS solvents and reagents have low ionic background levels and low alkaline metal contents, making them suitable for UHPLC and LC-MS chromatography.
Specially tailored for the requirements of preparative HPLC separations, these solvents have very low evaporation residue levels (<1 mg/L), low water contents and high purity.
Our complete range of HPLC solvents in stainless steel returnable barrels improves safety, limits potential contamination and eliminates waste.
These high-purity solvents are designed for spectroscopy applications that demand maximum spectral purity.
Avantor® offers a complete range of deuterated solvents with high purity (>99.9%) and varying degrees of deuteration, available in a variety of pack sizes.
For gas chromatography, particularly pesticide analysis, we offer a wide range of solvents with extremely low levels of halogenated and other organic compounds to prevent sample contamination.
Discover our complete portfolio of anhydrous solvents with low water contents (<0.005%), available in 250- and 500-ml septum-sealed glass bottles.
Inorganic reagents
We offer a comprehensive range of acids suitable for many analytical and R&D applications, with guaranteed specifications that conform to ACS and Reag. Ph. Eur. standards.
Learn about our acids for general laboratory use.
This wide range of acids with limited specifications is for general laboratory use.
A comprehensive portfolio of alkalis suitable for many analytical and R&D applications, with guaranteed specifications that conform to ACS and Reag. Ph. Eur. standards.
Choose from our alkalis for general laboratory use.
We offer a wide range of alkalis with limited specifications for general laboratory use.
We provide a complete range of salts suitable for a multitude of analytical and R&D applications. Our specifications are guaranteed to conform to ACS and Reag. Ph. Eur. standards.
Discover the advantages of our salts for general laboratory use.
We offer a wide range of salts with limited specifications is for general laboratory use.
See our comprehensive and wide range of "ready-to-use" tablets to meet the optimal sulfuric acid decomposition phase requirements.
For quality control in pharmaceutical applications, we offer more than 250 standards and solutions that conform to current European pharmacopeia standards. Each is delivered with a complete CoA to ensure complete traceability.
To help you with your future titrations, find our complete range of pH, metal and redox indicators.
Lab auxiliaries, safety products and detergents
Avantor® offers an extensive selection of products for ensuring safe lab operations and managing spills, including the versatile Algosol and basic spillage absorption granules.
Analytical-grade pumice stone granules are available from VWR® Chemicals.
We can provide industrial sands and other products for use in clarification processes.
Multiple molecular sieves are available, with different materials to adsorb molecules with specific critical diameters.
These silicone grease lubricants are available for use with a variety of lab glassware.
A variety of gases are available for purification tasks.
These standard freezing products are used for a variety of lab tasks.
The VWR® Chemicals portfolio includes multiple drying agents to clean up spills.
LABWASH® offers a range of manual or machine washing products for housekeeping tasks.
Our offerings include Chameleon® absorbent granules and non-toxic desiccants for adsorbing moisture from the atmosphere and gas streams.
Our silicone fluids are low in toxicity, inert and long-lasting due to their low volatility. They are recommended for use in baths.
Our products include convenient spill kits and absorbent granules.