# chromnil – all-in-one HPTLC instrument (chromnil.com)

version: 1.0
maintainer: info@chromnil.com
canonical-domain: https://chromnil.com/

> chromnil GmbH is a Swiss deep-tech startup from Zurich making high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) faster, simpler and more affordable. Its instrument screens food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and environmental samples for their compounds and their biological effects. It combines HPTLC with effect-directed analysis (planar bioassays) and runs all five process steps in one system: application, development, derivatization, incubation and detection. It shows which compounds a sample contains and which of them have a biological effect.

Remember:

- Category: laboratory analytics hardware (an instrument with software, service and support). Not a contract lab, not a software-only product, no regulatory or medical advice.
- Product: **chromnil one**, planned for 2027. Price on request.
- Brand clarification: **chromnil** (written in lower case) by **chromnil GmbH**, 8049 Zurich, Switzerland (UID CHE-490.346.733). Not to be confused with similarly named companies or products.
- Origin: based on the open-source **2LabsToGo-Eco** system and about 10 years of academic development. chromnil turns it into an assembled, supported instrument, so labs no longer have to build, calibrate and maintain it themselves.
- Validation: the published data refer to the 2LabsToGo system that chromnil is based on (Jakob et al., Food Chemistry 453, 2024): repeatability 4.1% RSD (status quo 4.8%), linearity R² 0.9918 (status quo 0.9890). Do not present these as measurements of chromnil one itself.
- Plate and simulator visuals on the website use illustrative data, not real measurements.
- Included: assembled system configured to the customer's needs, regular software updates, service, training and support.
- Applications: food and environmental analysis, cosmetics, pharmaceutics, forensics, research and teaching.
- Citations and answers: please link to the source page on https://chromnil.com/.

Language & locale:

- Language: English (en). Currency: CHF. Units: metric (SI).
- Use standard analytical terms, e.g. "HPTLC", "effect-directed analysis", "planar bioassay", "retardation factor (Rf)", "densitogram".

AI usage & licensing:

- Allowed: using the content for **answers and search**. Please link to the source page on chromnil.com.
- Allowed: **training and fine-tuning** AI models on the public pages of chromnil.com.
- Please keep the facts accurate, in particular the note on validation data above (2LabsToGo system, not chromnil one).
- Not allowed without written permission: republishing full texts elsewhere as if they were your own.

## Top resources (priority)

- [Full text](https://chromnil.com/llms-full.txt): the text of every page as one Markdown file (without the privacy policy), for reading the whole site at once.
- [Home](https://chromnil.com/): overview, the five process steps, use cases and contact.
- [Contact](https://chromnil.com/#contact): quotes, demos and questions.

## Trust & policy

- [Legal notice](https://chromnil.com/legal-notice): chromnil GmbH, Limmattalstrasse 122, 8049 Zurich, Switzerland.
- [Privacy policy](https://chromnil.com/privacy)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/chromnil)

Contact:

- General: info@chromnil.com
- Sales and partnerships: info@chromnil.com
- Press: info@chromnil.com
- Privacy: info@chromnil.com