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.