Asynt making pancakes on a hotplate

English pancakes and stirrer hotplates

Posted on: February 16, 2015

Any excuse for nice food in the office – today we celebrate pancake day and put our hotplate stirrer to an alternative use!

Asynt team visit Huber January 2015

Join the Asynt team in Germany!

Posted on: February 4, 2015

Join in the whistle-stop tour of our recent visit to Germany, thanks to our gracious hosts at both Huber and IKA!

Chemistry versus ice

Posted on: January 20, 2015

With temperatures outside my home at minus 4 degrees C this morning I was prompted to take a look around the internet and see if there are any simple chemistry tricks for battling the ice.

Sir Martyn Poliakoff

Blogging chemists and knighthoods

Posted on: January 16, 2015

From Martyn Poliakoff’s well deserved knighthood to video blogging on “is marmite an emulsion” – thanks to the world wide web there’s a chemistry blog for everyone!

What we did on our holidays!

Posted on: January 8, 2015

Find out who went virtual skydiving and who ate the most over the Christmas holidays!

Asynt stepping into the future plans for 2015 blog

Stepping into the future

Posted on: December 5, 2014

What a year we have had! It’s looking pretty hectic for 2015 in a good way too with much of my time in the last year spent in the development of new products.

Chemistry Party Tricks!

Posted on: December 5, 2014

Despite all the negativity surrounding chemicals in our food, a lot of them are naturally found and give us the opportunity to perform some rather cool chemistry party tricks!

The real Martyn Fordham

Posted on: October 27, 2014

When your MD is a recognised photographer you know you’ll get good product shots, but did anyone warn you about all the trains? Find out about the real Martyn Fordham!

chemically induced halloween Asynt blog image

Chemically-induced Halloween

Posted on: October 27, 2014

It’s that time of the year when the sales of a certain fruit soar, in preparation for a night of trick-or-treating and bonfires, once the jack-o’-lantern has been carved. Yes, to usher in November, we go crazy for pumpkins in celebration of Halloween. In this post, I discuss the chemistry behind pumpkin flavourings…