Laboratory Chemicals, Reagents & Catalysts
Source laboratory chemicals, reagents & catalysts from India's verified manufacturers and exporters on Himalay. Browse analytical grade reagents, titration reagents, analytical standards, alcohol reagents and ketone reagents for industrial and export applications.
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About Laboratory Chemicals, Reagents & Catalysts
Laboratory chemicals and reagents cover the higher-purity, smaller-package chemicals used in analytical, synthesis, QC, research, and educational laboratories worldwide. Unlike commodity industrial chemicals where volume is large and purity is a price point, laboratory chemicals are specified by stringent purity grades, trace-impurity profiles, and batch-to-batch consistency — and sold in smaller units (grams to kilograms, or single-litre bottles to drums) with correspondingly higher per-unit prices.
Purity grades follow established conventions: AR/ACS (Analytical Reagent / American Chemical Society grade — high purity suitable for analytical work and general synthesis, typically >99% main component, with specific impurity limits published per substance); GR (Guaranteed Reagent, European equivalent); HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography grade — additional purification to remove UV-absorbing impurities that would interfere with chromatography, typical for solvents used as HPLC mobile phases); LC-MS (mass spectrometry grade — additional purification to remove ionic contamination); pharmaceutical grade (USP, EP, BP, JP, IP — compendial compliance for pharmaceutical manufacturing); reagent-grade water (Type I ASTM / Milli-Q, Type II, Type III — for different laboratory uses); and specialty grades (sequencing-grade, peptide-synthesis-grade, trace-metal-grade).
Indian laboratory-chemical manufacturers include SRL, Loba Chemie, Qualigens, Himedia, and dozens of specialty-chemical producers serving both domestic and export markets. For branded international catalogue reagents (Sigma-Aldrich, Merck Millipore, Thermo Fisher, VWR), Himalay's supply goes through the authorised distribution channel. Indian-manufactured equivalents offer 30–60% cost savings at analytical-grade quality, with the quality gap narrowing year-on-year as Indian producers invest in purification capacity.
Product families: general inorganic salts and solutions (volumetric standards, pH buffers, redox indicators); organic reagents (solvents, acids, bases, synthesis building blocks); analytical standards (certified reference materials, pharmacopoeial standards); buffers and biological chemicals (Tris, HEPES, PBS, cell-culture media); stains and dyes (microscopy, histology, electrophoresis); silica and chromatography media; acids and solvents in glass-bottled high-purity formats.
Packaging is smaller-scale than commodity chemicals: glass bottles (25 mL–5 L), plastic bottles (250 mL–25 L), amber glass for light-sensitive reagents, DOT-approved shipping cartons with foam inserts, refrigerated packaging for heat-sensitive materials. Dangerous-goods classification applies (Class 3 flammable solvents, Class 8 corrosive acids, Class 6.1 toxic reagents), with IMDG for sea and IATA for air — many higher-value lab chemicals ship by air for faster delivery and temperature control.
Documentation is demanding: every bottle ships with a Certificate of Analysis listing batch number, purity assay, water content (Karl Fischer), specific impurity levels per the grade specification, and shelf life. Safety Data Sheets per GHS/CLP/OSHA standards. For pharmaceutical use: full compendial certification (USP/EP/BP/JP), manufacturing-facility GMP documentation where applicable, and DMF (Drug Master File) references for regulated substances.
