Who We Are

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information. ACD/Labs' innovative software packages aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system (ChemAnalytics^®) that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process.

Founded in 1994, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 140 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs' innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products can be found at www.acdlabs.com.

Our Mission

ACD/Labs' mission is to provide the best chemistry software solutions that enable scientists to focus on science, and organizations to accelerate research, discovery and development, protect and leverage knowledge, and strengthen their competitive position.

Our Values

ACD/Labs defines success as exceeding the expectations of our customers, collaborators, employees, and owners. We strive for excellence, adhere to our stringent values of integrity and respect, and are accountable for our actions. We celebrate the diversity of each individual in our team, their ideas and cultures. We flourish through innovation, and embrace opportunities. We are inspired to be our best, work hard and not miss the opportunity to have fun on our journey.

Our Commitment

The goal of ACD/Labs is to provide the industry standard in comprehensive and innovative predictive, chemical, spectroscopic, chromatographic, and database management software solutions while developing and maintaining complete customer loyalty. These objectives are accomplished through:

• the adoption and development of state-of-the-art algorithms; and
• our continuous commitment to the highest standards of development and customer support quality.

ACD/Labs has a reputation for providing the highest level of technical excellence in our software products, carrying out extensive quality testing for every piece of software we provide. We continuously update existing products on a regular basis with new and enhanced features that meet the ever-changing requirements and demands of modern research, and achieve fast turnaround for critical customer requests, ensuring that universally useful applications are promptly implemented into the new product versions.

Our Marketplace

ACD/Labs strives to advance chemical research and help companies get their products to market faster. We have served more than 600 chemical and pharmaceutical companies, and over 650 academic and government institutions worldwide with cutting-edge software that streamlines analytical data management, chemical nomenclature, chemical databasing, and molecular property prediction. As the recognized market leader in analytical vendor-neutral databasing, processing, and analysis for MS and NMR, we are also achieving greater prominence in complementary analytical fields like UV-Vis, IR, x-ray, chromatography, and chemical drawing, to name just a few. Furthermore, we are the industry standard in NMR spectrum and physicochemical property predictions, as well as nomenclature software. Combined, our modular products, built in-house by the our talented development team that includes many Ph.D.-level scientists, helps create the complete ChemAnalytics solution through the application of computational tools and information systems to form intelligent links among chemical structures, properties, and analytical data, and efficiently generate knowledge, increase laboratory throughput, and disseminate information.