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History
Initially established in 1993 as M&G Chemicals Limited, the company was renamed as Apollo Scientific Limited in 1996. By 1998 the company had grown to ten staff and the head office of Apollo was relocated to a 350 sq.metre site in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire. In 2001 Apollo opened its own small scale manufacturing in the UK, and by the time of Apollo's next move in 2002 to a 1000 sq.metre site (extended to 1350 sq.metres in 2007) in Bredbury, Stockport, the company had grown to thirty staff. In early 2008 a major expansion of Apollo's facilities added about 2200 sq.metres of warehouse and laboratory space at an additional site in Denton, Manchester. The Bredbury site was certified to the ISO9001 standard towards the end of 2007.

Central Glass (Japan)
In 2003 Central Glass Co., Ltd of Japan acquired a 33% holding in Apollo. At the end of March 2008 Central Glass Co., Ltd increased its shareholding in Apollo to 91%.

Synquest Laboratories (USA)
Central Glass had previously acquired the R&D company Synquest Laboratories Inc. (Florida, USA) in 2002. Synquest is a manufacturer of a range of speciality fluorochemicals, including gases and aliphatic compounds

With Apollo now working much more closely with Synquest and Central Glass, the three companies can help each other with the production and marketing of their fluorochemical product ranges throughout the world, from research quantities in the laboratories to full scale pilot plant production.

Nature of Business
Apollo Scientific began as a supplier Fluorochemicals, but has since diversified into other product ranges.


 * Fluorochemicals
 * Organic Intermediates
 * Biochemicals
 * High purity Inorganics
 * Spectroscopy consumables