Navin Fluorine scientists have rich experience in developing processes that are both innovative and cost effective. Our expertise in handling HF (hydrofluoric acid) has no parallel in India. Our fluorination capabilities include catalytic, non catalytic, gas phase and liquid phase fluorination using HF and other specialized fluorination reactions like Balz-Schiemann, Schiemann and Swarts reactions. Halogen exchange (Halex) using KF is another of our fluorination specialties.

Vapor phase chemistry is a specialty application that we practice safely, and with pride. We can perform vapor phase chemistry like alkylation, halogenations including bromination and chlorination, ammoxidation, and other chemistries.

Among other areas, we have expertise in the following chemistries:

High pressure chemistry :

• Ammonolysis
• Chlorination
• Fluorination
• Hydroxylation
• Hydrogenation
• Halex reaction

Vapor Phase chemistry :

• Alkylation
• Ammoxidation
• Chlorination
• Fluorination
• Oxidation
• Swarts reaction

Diazotization :

• Sandmeyer reaction (bromination, cyanation etc)
• Schiemann reaction
• Balz-Schiemann reaction
• Deamination
• Hydroxylation

Others :

• Acylation
• Friedel-Crafts reaction
• Bromination
• Chlorination
• Nitration
• Sulfonation
• Halogen exchange (Halex)
• Organometallic chemistry

We are currently working on direct fluorination using fluorine gas at R&D scales, and soon will be able to offer products from direct fluorination.

R&D - Process Scale-up & Technology Transfer:

Very few organizations have as much practical experience in scaling up a process from research quantities to pilot, and full scale manufacturing. Much of our synthesis work focuses on designing processes that can quickly provide material for use in development, and at the same time, are transferable into commercial scale production. Our team of chemists is able to draw on our comprehensive synthetic expertise and select the most appropriate project group for each aspect of the development work. Our teams manage and monitor a project from developmental trials to the final delivery of the compound, working either in the laboratory or in the pilot plant, ensuring a constant product quality over the whole product lifecycle from the very beginning (‘integrated prototyping’).

The piloting facilities available in Surat which simulate full-scale production conditions provide an excellent transition from the laboratory to a production plant.