Facilities and Equipment

Insight R&D has two facilities. Our bench laboratory is located in Rockwood, ON, and our pilot laboratory is located in Port Burwell, ON.

Here, we are equipped with the necessary equipment to develop lab, bench, and pilot scale pre-commercialization projects.

Bench - Wet Lab

• Chemical fume hoods 
• Reactors (stainless steel and glass) 
• Flow Chemistry
• Microreactors
• Calorimetry 
• Precipitation reactors
• Crystallizers
• Solvent extraction
• Filtration testing 
• Settling test apparatus 
• Centrifuge 
• Coatings testing 
• Corrosion testing (potentiostat) 
• Characterization equipment (ICP-OES, moisture analyzer, microscopy, etc.) 

Bench - Dry Lab 

• Ball mill
• Vertical shaft mill 
• Burners, dryers, kilns, and ovens 
• Sieving screens (linear, orbital, rotating) 
• Air classification equipment 
• Powder mixing equipment 
• Induction furnaces 
• Cupola furnace
• Dryers
• Dry granulation equipment
• Molten atomization equipment
• Fabrication and prototyping equipment 

Pilot

• Reactors (stainless steel, Inconel, glass-lined, high-pressure, CSTR, PFR) 
• Wiped film evaporators 
• Distillation columns (pilot and bench) 
• Chillers and boilers 
• Muffle furnaces 
• Solid-liquid separation (by filtration and centrifuge) 
• Centrifuge
• Fabrication and prototyping equipment 
• Characterization equipment (liquid chromatography, moisture analyzer, microscopy)