Creating a better tomorrow by providing high quality products today

Chem-Impex International ("CII") is a privately held corporation headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois.   The company manufactures and distributes approximately 30,000 chemicals for use in the life sciences research and chemical industries.  Since beginning its operations in 1981, CII has developed a strong global customer base across leading research institutes, universities, contract research organizations and large pharmaceutical and biotech companies.  

CII carries a wide range of products including amino acids, unnatural amino acids and their derivatives, peptide reagents, resins, nucleosides, diagnostic chemicals, tissue culture reagents and antibiotics.  All of these products are stored, tested and shipped from Wood Dale, Illinois. CII takes pride in keeping over 95% of its products in inventory at any given time to facilitate same day shipment.  

The in-house laboratory enables CII to provide an unlimited variety of customized products to fit any client’s needs from microscale to bulk quantity.  Please, do not hesitate to inquire about the custom synthesis capabilities.

In keeping quality paramount, CII has invested in the following industry-leading analytical and production equipment:

• HPLC (variable wavelength, conductivity), GC, Karl Fischer
• UV/Visible & FT-IR spectrometers
• Parr Pressure Reactors (7.5 liter capacity)
• Preparative HPLC for purification of raw material (2 kilogram capacity)
• Rotary evaporators & glass reactors (50 liter capacity)