About Benson Polymeric Inc.

During the past 30 years, as Benson Company and Benson Polymeric, Inc., we have provided premium column packing materials and pre-packed columns to the major chromatography equipment manufacturers and supply distributors in the industry as well as direct sales through dealers. The primary objective of our company is to provide the highest quality products and technical services to our customers.

The application of liquid chromatography has become a routine procedure in the scientific community, yet there still remains considerable technical "art" to achieving the accuracy and precision required by the bench scientist. While the scientist may control many of the test variables, the heart of the system remains the resin and column packing which play the most critical role in determining research results and ensuring test reproducibility. As one of the few companies that manufactures its own resins, Benson Polymeric optimizes quality control in resin and column production providing you with greater confidence in the results obtained at the bench level.



James V. Benson, PhD., founder of Benson Polymeric, has been at the forefront of the development of HPLC polymer application research. As a Senior Application chemist with Beckman, he developed the "first" polymer based, spherical chromatographic resins. Based on the rapidly evolving theory in liquid chromatography of the time, these high-performance column packings led to the design of the first modern LC units. As a result, the resin technology created by Jim played a critical role in the development of rapid, high-performance separation of amino acids and related compounds.

Beyond the original development of resins, Jim has been actively involved in researching new chromatographic applications that have become industry standards. In addition to developing resins for amino acid and peptide analyses, Jim developed ion exchange resins for chromatographic analysis of carbohydrates, nucleotides, cations and anions. As a consultant at Palo Alto medical Foundation, he developed a radio opaque polymer particle for studying phagocytosis in reticuleoendothelial systems. Later research led to the development of polymer products used for binding specific antibodies. Similar to current affinity chromatography, this immunospecific purification of antigens and/or antibodies provided a method of purifying macromolecules by unique biospecific binding and elution of the impurities.

Acting now as Director and Scientific Consultant to the company, Jim is committed to the future evolution of chromatography applications, and will continue his developmental research efforts on a perfect spherical chromatographic packing material superior to anything currently available in commercial markets.

As a result, customers of Benson Polymeric will benefit from Jim's extensive experience and knowledge in the chromatography field. Benson Polymeric produces and markets superior packing materials characterized by batch to batch reproducibility. These resins permit sample peak separations to be performed in a shorter time with improved peak resolution. In addition, the company offers a technical service program unique to the industry based on the knowledge and expertise of one of the industry's original pioneers.

We wish to take this time to thank all of our customers over the years, and to invite you to look over our web site for information and/or products that will suit your applications. Contact information can be found here.


Sincerely,

The Staff at Benson Polymeric