ActiveSite was built to close that gap.
 
Founded on over 30 years of catalyst development and commercialization experience, ActiveSite, formerly the Process Catalysts, Systems and Services (PCSS) division of Applied Catalysts, exists to give innovators and chemical companies the specialized commercial toolkit they are missing. We combine deep catalyst expertise with the breadth of capabilities needed to move technologies forward: custom catalyst development, process systems engineering, pilot-scale testing, and commercial scale-up, all under one roof and all working toward one goal: getting your technology to market at speed and at cost.
 
Our depth in catalysts is real. The ActiveSite portfolio spans activated carbon monolith catalysts (ACMC), metal oxide catalysts (MOC), PGM and base-metal packed bed series, ceramic monoliths, granular and extruded forms, and fully custom formulations designed around proprietary customer chemistries. Our process systems platform stretches from lab-scale flow and batch reactors through pilot runs to commercial continuous hydrogenation systems, modular production platforms, and separation systems, engineered to spec, built to perform, and designed with scalability in mind from day one.

What differentiates ActiveSite is not technical range alone. It is the integration. Commercial-stage technology challenges rarely fail for a single reason. They fail because heat transfer assumptions that worked at bench scale do not hold at pilot, because raw material specifications were not locked in early enough, because the team developing the catalyst and the team engineering the system were not talking. ActiveSite keeps those conversations continuous. Our chemists and engineers engage across the full commercialization arc, from initial chemistry screening and catalyst selection through process design, pilot testing, and optimization to turnkey commercial reactor systems, so that nothing falls through the handoff.

This model is not just technically sound. It is economically decisive. Faster commercialization timelines mean higher NPV for the technology. Fewer missteps at scale mean lower development cost. A partner who has done this before means risk that is managed, not absorbed.

The world needs new industrial technologies to work. ActiveSite is how they get there.

ActiveSite. Catalyst Depth. Commercial Breadth. Concept to Commercial.