Fine Chemicals Bulk

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• Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemical's Production Site Fluka, Switzerland
• Biotransformation Capabilities at Fluka
• The Fluka-Wacker Agreement
• High Quality Water at Fluka
  
  

Introduction

Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals manufactures organic intermediates, custom products and cGMP active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for pharmaceutical and industrial companies around the world. Fluka production GmbH (Buchs, Switzerland), part of the Sigma-Aldrich family, has a strong focus on providing organic intermediates, bulk actives and excipients for the pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, a close cooperation with the production plant at Gillingham (UK) takes place with the possibility of an easy technology transfer from one plant to the other.

Customer requests

Once receiving an enquiry for a custom project, our team does perform an immediate screen of the available information package. Within 48h a decision will be made and communicated whether the project and involved technology is feasible. Thereafter, within a time frame of 5 days a concrete project proposal is issued and tailor-made to the customer requirements.
Upon launching the project with the R&D programme, a dedicated team is working on the project lead by a professional project leader. Intensive communication with the customer and comprehensive documentation and reporting round up the project performance.
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Production Site

The Fluka plant, employing about 60 people in production, is specialised in complex, multi-step synthesis up to 1600 liters and low temperature reactions (-60 degrees) up to 400 liters. A broad range of production technologies for a wide range of products and multi-purpose equipment offers batch sizes from grams to tons. Technology strengths are aimed toward low-volume, highly complicated chemistries. Distillation processes for liquid-liquid separation are being performed with fractional stills, rotary or thin film evaporators.
The facility is certified by the Swiss IKS to operate under c-GMP according to ICH guidelines. The cGMP certified production area is often used to manufacture products that are used in pharmaceutical applications.
In addition, Fluka operates two laboratories that are dedicated to special biochemistry products and projects. Click here if you want to obtain further information about our biotransformation capabilities

Buchs Manufacturing overview

• Custom Synthesis including Process Development
• Production of high-quality intermediates and bulk actives

Special Technologies

• Low temperature reactions to - 60 degrees for 400 liters
• Enzymatic reactions
• Lyophilisation
• Reverse osmosis

Integrated process development with top-of-the-line technologies

FT-IR-Spectrometer and Diamond-probe automatic lab reactor

• kinetic reaction control
• optimum reaction time and conditions
• inert to all chemical conditions
• spectral range from 650 - 1800 cm^-1
• in-line control versus off-line analysis
• increased process efficiency

Reaction Calorimeter

• thermodynamic reaction control
• optimum reaction temperature and dosing speed
• increased yields
• safer scale-up
• increased process safety

ISO 9001 Certified

Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals Buchs facility is ISO 9001 certified and operates under full compliance. Reactors are computer controlled with a validated system.