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Isochem company

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Type
  
S.A.S

Key people
  
Björn Schlosser (CEO)

Website
  
www.isochem.eu

Number of employees
  
330 (2016)

Headquarters
  
Vert-le-Petit, France

Products
  
Chemicals

Founded
  
1974

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Industry
  
Chemicals and Speciality Products

Subsidiaries
  
MRG Holdings Limited, SISSA, Wychem Ltd., Isochem North America LLC

Isochem is a French chemicals company specialized in custom synthesis. The company's products and services are primarily destined for the following market sectors:

Contents

  • pharmaceuticals (APIs or active ingredients for medicinal products and intermediates),
  • cosmetics
  • specialty chemicals.

    • The company operates from four production sites in France and also has: one industrial subsidiary outside France: Wychem in the UK.

    History

  • 1974 : Isochem created in Gennevilliers
  • 1977 : Pithiviers (ex. Agrifarm) site opened
  • 1979 : 1st U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) audit and approval; export market development
  • 1990 : Isochem joins Groupe SNPE
  • 1991 : Isochem acquires the Vert-le-Petit site (ex IRCHA Fine Chemicals and Propeptide)
  • 2003 : acquisition of the Pont-de-Claix platform and the Hungarian subsidiary Framochem
  • 2010 : acquisition of Isochem by the German industrial holding company Aurelius AG
  • 2012 : acquisition of Wychem (UK) by Isochem ,
  • 2014 : sale of Framochem subsidiary by Isochem

    • Initially specialized in the extraction and hemisynthesis of natural substances such as quinine, Isochem has gradually expanded its expertise in the field of multi-step industrial production encompassing a variety of operations including Grignard, Friedel-Crafts, Sandmeyer, Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction, deprotonation using butyllithium, reduction using metal hydrides and hydrogenation.

    In the 1990s, synergies with groupe SNPE enabled Isochem to implement new technologies such as phosgenation, nitration and manufacture of amino-acid derivatives such as NCAs, UNCAs and peptides.,

    Industrial sites and specific expertise

    Four sites in France:

  • Vert-le-Petit :(head office and production): phosgene chemistry
  • Gennevilliers: fractionned distillation, cold reactions (-70 °C)
  • Pithiviers: hydrogenation under pressure, waste processing  ·
  • Pont de Claix : active ingredients and intermediates for Agrochemicals.

    • One industrial subsidiary outside France:

  • Wychem (United Kingdom): halogen compounds.

    • Most industrial sites have a research and development team; in addition, the Vert-le-Petit site has the equipment required to study process safety.

    References

    Isochem company Wikipedia
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