Albemarle is one of the few firms in the world with the facilities and expertise to help you with product development at every stage, from contract research through commercial manufacturing.
At the R&D level, we can work with your technology, or we can use our extensive resources in chemistry and chemical engineering to develop, test and prove efficient new processes. Either way, you’ll benefit from decades of Albemarle scale-up experience with hundreds of products in dozens of industries.A seasoned technical group made up of 16 PhD-level organic chemists supervises contract service operations in Albemarle research laboratories, kilo labs, and pilot plants. They’re supported by more than 100 scientists, including 27 total analytical staff, at Albemarle’s Process Development Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It’s a talented, fast, and responsive team with an exceptional focus on solving customer problems. They’ll help you control development time and costs by thoroughly testing your process in research laboratories featuring state-of-the-art NMR, FTIR, UV/VIS, ICP, GC, HPLC, Mass spectrometry and other equipment.
Once the R&D work is done, they will stay with you during the kilo-lab or pilot-plant stage, ensuring consistency and a sense of ownership and accountability.
We are committed to being your long-term, service partner, and dedicated to your success. Contact us today to see how we can give you priority attention that most others simply can’t match.
With our expertise in process development, Albemarle’s Fine Chemistry Services group can help you turn your chemical concepts into commercial-scale products. We’ve done it before for ourselves and for customers like you in a wide range of industries from agriculture to pharmaceuticals, polymers and water treatment.
Kilo lab
Our cGMP-capable and non-GMP kilo labs can make future commercial products in the volumes you need to properly evaluate their performance.
That’s true of even the most challenging materials and reactions, because our equipment’s materials of construction range from the routine to the exotic. And thanks to facilities that support multiple operations in batch and continuous processes, you can get the samples at your convenience.
Our chemical engineers and chemists, lab technicians and operators work in facilities designed specifically for process development, including multiple pilot plants and sample preparation units, as well as large-scale market development units with sophisticated automated control systems.
So you can count on Albemarle at any stage – bench development, pilot phase, sample production or market development. We can increase production volume to keep pace as your needs grow.
cGMP
cGMP outsourcing is one of the most effective ways to reduce "time to market," optimize your cost structure and streamline your operations. With more of your resources devoted to core pharmaceutical activities, your assets become more productive, and so does your marketing effort.Quality intermediates and support from Albemarle let you focus more of your resources on drug discovery and marketing, and less on costly manufacturing facilities.
That’s why we’ve invested heavily in pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing technology: so that you can maximize your return on clinical work at the front end, and on successful new product introductions at the back end.
Our commitment to the pharmaceutical industry is easy to see: Our bulk-active ibuprofen plant is the world’s largest. We feature a cGMP kilo lab and cGMP pilot plant at our South Haven, Michigan, facility.
The new cGMP unit includes several features to help make your products quickly and effectively:
Chemistry & Process Capabilities
A diverse array of compounds with varied chemical structures requiring:
50 to 4,000 gallon reactors (cGMP)
When coupled with our significant regulatory and DMF experience, and excellent US FDA track record in Orangeburg (only one minor 483 in more than 25 years of API production), we think that our expansion offers you a unique set of benefits.
As a result, our robust project pipeline has already begun filling with new cGMP business, and we expect this new business – like our renowned heritage in bromine fine chemistry – to provide a base for future fine chemistry services growth.
Let our experts help you with your own unique cGMP project. Ask us about your product today.
Albemarle is a leading specialty chemical company providing innovative chemistry solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. We are committed to creating value for our shareholders, customers and employees, while continually striving for excellence by doing the right things the right way.
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