VWR, a global provider of lab products and services, has acquired Purification Technologies Inc. (PTI), a specialty solvent company that performs high volume purification of selected high purity solvents. The acquisition expands VWR's lab and production chemical manufacturing portfolio to better support its lab and biopharma manufacturing customers. Financial details were not disclosed.
 
"PTI's solvent purification expertise and process capabilities improve access to a key solvent line and enhances our portfolio of high purity products available to our customers," said Manuel Brocke-Benz, president and chief executive officerof VWR. "Our customers in the chromatography , biochemical and agrochemical industries will benefit through VWR's ability to supply high purity Acetonitrile and other solvents in both bulk and lab scale quantities."