Prof. Egon Stahl made Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) very very useful and popular by analysing thousands of compounds and publishing the data in a book in the ‘60s. High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) is the modern version of TLC wherein the principals are same but the practice is fully automated and GLP/USP/EP compliant. As a liquid chromatography technique, HPTLC can analyse most non volatile organic samples. Its differential aspects are:

• "Chromatography" is visible and simple
• Little or no sample preparation
• Analysis of dozens of samples, concurrently
• "Chromatogram" immobilized on the plate
• Upto 8 detection modes, without repeating chromatography
• HPTLC Fingerprint- chemical composition of mixtures, represented as photographic images
• Very low cost of analysis and maintenance
• One HPTLC can be used simultaneously for 5-6 different sample analysis and persons
• Zero risk chromatography. Samples cannot contaminate or cross-contaminate
• Very high throughput. 100-120 samples/shift
• Urgent samples don’t affect ongoing analysis

CAMAG, the world’s pioneer and leader in HP-TLC software and instrumentation researched and designed instruments to take advantage of all above unique aspects.

CAMAG, manufactures in Switzerland manual, semi-automatic, automatic and recently completely automatic software controlled HPTLC Systems and certain special accessories like HPTLC-MS, Gradient Chamber, Method Development Chamber, Bioluminizer.