AppRidge International, LLC

AppRidge International, LLC, is a consulting and analytical services outsourcing provider. We provide our clients access to cutting edge physicochemical and structural analysis analytical techniques as well as state-of-the-art production facilities to meet your research, development, and production needs. Our multidisciplinary approach to solving your technical challenges and our team’s broad experience working with polymers of industrial interest and polysaccharides enables us to tackle your most complex technical problems with confidence.

Our mission at AppRidge is to assist you, our client, to reach your research, development, and production goals more quickly by providing rapid access to technology and expertise not available in your laboratory or when your own resources are unavailable or need to be augmented. We can assist your business by enabling leaner operation, reducing overhead costs, accelerating time to your business goals, freeing up your technical personnel to work on important internal challenges, reducing your product and process development costs, and providing you with the right talent and technologies at the right time in the R & D and process implementation cycle.

Project areas utilizing AppRidge’s expertise:

Small Molecule and Industrial Polymer Characterization: Based upon more than 35 years of NMR experience in the structural characterization of small molecules and polymers including polyamides, polyesters, polyolefins, polyacrylates, polymethacrylates, biodegradable polymers, polyethers, cellulose and related derivatives, and other polysaccharides such as (1-3)-β-D-glucans, (1-3,1-6)-β-D-glucans, (1-6)-β-D-glucans, D-mannans, and fructans.

Structure/Property Relationship Characterization of Carbohydrates: AppRidge offers an extensive and unique array of technologies for detailed structural and physicochemical characterization of carbohydrates of interest to the biomedical and pharmaceutical communities. The physicochemical techniques include Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR), Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) with Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering (MALLS) detection and refractive index (RI) detection, Gas Chromatography (GC) with Mass Spectrometry (MS) detection, and Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy (SPR). Check out our website for more details.

Carbohydrate Isolation Protocol Development: You have a desire to introduce a new product isolated from a grain, such as oats, or from a fungal source, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but cannot come up with the desired process or cannot get the new process you are developing to work satisfactorily. Let AppRidge assist you in developing the process. Based upon the successful development of the process, we will provide you with pure quantities of the desired final isolate quality tested by NMR as well as other techniques such as GPC/MALLS as needed.

Production Process Implementation: You have a great laboratory-scale process for making your API or other product but need it produced on a larger scale under GMP. AppRidge can locate a suitable GMP-certified production facility through one of our associated laboratories.

3rd Party Comparison of Competitor Products: Whether you have been making your products for years or are just getting started, your competition wants to make that product better and gain your business. AppRidge is a partner for comparison testing your product relative to your competitor. Then your customers and management can see how your products stack up against the competition.

Technical Document Review: AppRidge can review technical documents from your outsourced providers to assist in validating report quality and usefulness.