BUSINESS CONSULTATION & ENGINEERING
Apical has a wide range of academic knowledge & experience consulting & assisting product specialist, developers, & laboratories. Covering process chemistry & engineering across a number of fields like cosmetics, cannabinoids, pharmaceutical drugs and foods, we take a confident approach to your project and the obstacles ahead.
Process Chemistry
Our professional team can lend their experience across a wide range of industrial and pharmaceutical processes. Whether seeking to utilize advanced extraction and purification systems or incorporate the efficiencies of flow chemistry to your process, our priority is consistency and high purity. Processes requiring the retention of delicate compounds or management of highly volatile compounds will benefit from our approach to safe, operator-focused design and implementation.
Extractions / Terpene, Alkaloid, Flavonoid Retention
Solvent Recovery / Fractional Distillation
Isolation via LLE (Liquid-Liquid Extraction) / Crystallization (melt, evaporative, precipative)
Pharmaceutical & supplement development & production
Food science scale-up
Water-soluble nano & liposomal emulsifications
Flow chemistry for hazardous/energetic, continuous & pressurized scenarios
Alcohol distillation & de-alcoholization
Dye, ink & antioxidant purification
Wastewater management and remediation (process & municipal)
Aging / Degumming / Remediation / Conversion / Isomerization / Polymerization
Central Chemical Supply Systems (CCSS) in semiconductor & battery manufacturing
Management
Staffing
ROI analysis
Inventory & accountability systems
Economics of Scale vs Quality
Regulatory document preparation (cGMP, OSHA, EPA, FDA etc.)
Staff Training
Process Training & SOPs
Safety audit
Production, Maintenance & General Facility logging
Orocess & system optimization
cGMP/FDA process review
Agriculture
GAP, best practices to establish consistent cultivation.
Organic production including biodynamic practices, aquaponic supplementation and green mulching.
IPM (Integrated Pest Management) via trap & companion planting, systemic organic pesticides & microorganisms, organic foliar spraying and predatory insects.
Farm Layout for indoor, outdoor & greenhouse.
Farm Planning & Management
Land concerns like wind exposure, heavy metal accumulation, living soil development.
Clear communication
Easy to reach and quick with an answer, the Apical team draws on a cohesive team, a large network of professional colleagues and years of experience to provide thorough solutions when the phone rings.
Compliant
Building on our experience with FDA, cGMP and organic approval & certifications, Apical offers pragmatic and realistic plans in pushing projects to the next level of production.
Network
Our wide range of colleagues from food, pharma, petrochem, marketing and distribution allows us to provide quick, accurate answers to the questions and concerns our clients raise during the build-out & operation of their enterprise.
Personalized
Apical staff recognizes no two projects are alike and represents this through unique reporting focused on the success of your specific project in the days and years to come.
Tough Love
Part of helping our clients put their best foot forward in highly competitive markets is to tell the truth. No misleading claims or throughput numbers, no outlandish expectations or impossible deadlines. Just distilled facts established by ourselves in the field & on the bench alongside our professional partners.