Sigma-Aldrich plays a critical role in advancing life science, high technology, and manufacturing globally. With the most comprehensive and innovative product offering, Sigma-Aldrich provides a rich and stimulating work environment for its employees. 

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Established to address the needs of economic buyers, one of our major successes was collaborating with our largest global accounts. Leveraging our worldwide presence and common systems, we are able to support these customers across geographic boundaries by offering consistent, streamlined services for our broad product offering. We also developed innovative and efficient solutions to address our customers’ desire to reduce the total cost of ownership.

 
Our vast capability in managing a global supply chain – from procurement and manufacturing to packaging and distribution – is proving highly valuable. Utilising these core operational strengths, our Compound Management Services (CMS) is a completely paperless system for custom-packaging over three million compounds used in drug discovery. Scientists at our customers’ sites around the world place hundreds of orders each day for these critical components of disease research.

We’ve also introduced other new features, such as user-friendly packaging. We reduce cost by applying our process improvement expertise and our sourcing capabilities to remain competitive. By leveraging our global presence, creating innovative solutions for the economic buyer and creating enduring relationships with our customer, we expect to continue to enable science globally through innovation.

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Research Specialities

Research Specialties is constantly adding new products, continuing to respond to customers’ changing needs. We have expanded services such as DiscoveryCPR™ (Custom Packaged Reagents) and launched Compound Management Services (CMS), an outsourcing service for the research compound libraries of global pharmaceutical companies.

Our publications focus on achieving high standards in scientific excellence. We regularly published six different newsletters, with 30 total issues, covering the analytical, biochemistry, chemistry and materials science markets. For 40 years, our flagship publication, the Aldrichimica Acta, has been an international forum for the frontiers of chemical research with articles written by leading chemists from around the world, including six Nobel Prize winners.

Our aim for the future is to build on our success, enabling science globally through innovation. Our plan includes enhancing our Internet capabilities, adding to our broad product offering, adding service enhancements, and increasing business development efforts in search of new platform technologies.

Find out more by browsing our Chemistry, Lifescience, Analytical and Labware sections of our website.

Research Biotechnology

Through communication, collaboration and innovation, accelerate the growth of our people, sales and reputation to ensure that we assume a leadership position in the Life Science market.

The goal of the Research Biotech Business Unit is to be a leading destination place for Life Science researchers to access deep biological information and market leading products to help solve their biological questions. By offering this we believe we can accelerate researchers abilities to meet and overcome the key challenge of understanding the dynamics of the complex molecular interactions within a cell that contribute to its intracellular and extracellular structure and function.

We provide a comprehensive portfolio of biologically rich content products, services, information and training for life science researchers to help solve their specific biological questions. Key product highlights are our technologies for Targetted Genome Editing (Zinc Finger Nucleases), Gene Knockdown (sh- and siRNA) and the highly validated Prestige Antibody range as well as key technologies and validated biomolecules for cell based and protein assays.

Our powerful web-based biological search tool Your Favourite Gene (YFG), powered by Ingenuity, provides scientists access to dynamic gene-based content that they can use to model and evaluate prospective experiments in the context of previously published scientific literature. It also serves as an interface between biological content products in our portfolio and target molecules of interest.

Find out more by browsing our Chemistry, Lifescience, Analytical and Labware sections of our website.

SAFC

The SAFC business division focuses on providing custom manufactured products and specialized services used in the industrial development and manufacturing, including processes, that bring new drugs and new electronic products to market. SAFC has divided its business focus into four distinct areas, each with its own specialty.

SAFC Biosciences, the leading industrial cell culture media supplier;

SAFC Supply Solutions, offering customized raw materials to customers;

SAFC Pharma, for custom manufacturing of APIs and intermediates;

SAFC Hitech, providing materials and solutions to the electronics and semi-conductor industries.

SAFC Biosciences

SAFC Biosciences develops, manufactures and markets cell culture reagents and services targeted for commercial firms involved in developing and producing biopharmaceuticals using mammalian and insect cell culture methods. SAFC Biosciences is focused on organizations involved in human therapeutics, animal health and diagnostics in various stages of development from preclinical through clinical phases I, II and III to marketed products. SAFC Biosciences has successful relationships with pharmaceutical, established biotech, start-up biotech, contract research and manufacturing organizations, agricultural-related and non-profit organizations.

Our expertise allows us to offer our customers safe, productive and consistent products and services that improve speed to market. We recognize the importance of providing responsive service and unsurpassed quality in our products. We focus on tailored solutions and manufacturing processes designed to meet the specific needs of our customers. By developing strong relationships we can assist our customers in every detail of product selection, modification and customization.

SAFC Supply Solutions

Dedicated to our broadest customer base, SAFC Supply Solutions' extensive manufacturing base and worldwide sourcing experience enables us to provide a diverse choice of raw materials to a wide range of markets. In sectors where speed and quality of service are paramount, SAFC's provision of local stocks, call off orders, annual contracts and just-in-time delivery provides the speed, flexibility and reliability you need. We are unique in our ability to supply an extensive range of complex organic chemicals and the widest variety of biochemical products for high-value applications in the life-science and advanced-technology markets. With over 40,000 procedures on file when a customer comes to us, it's likely that we can help. By customising packaging, analytical services and quality assurance we are best able to meet each customer's unique needs. And through our regulatory expertise, extensive QC facilities and a dedication to enhancing procurement efficiency , SAFC Supply solutions is rapidly becoming preferred partner of choice for high quality, best-value raw materials. Add dedicated sales teams, unparalleled logistics and supply chain knowledge - all supported by a global distribution network - and you are assured of the materials you need, when you need them.

SAFC Pharma

SAFC Pharma is a complete pipeline partner for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies developing and commercializing complex small-molecule APIs and biologic drug products. The company combines world-class, "single point of contact" project management with proven processes and procedures that support all stages of drug development. From pre-clinical through commercialization, we enable customers to bring their products to market in the most efficient timeframe possible. With SAFC's broadly integrated portfolio of services and state-of-the-art global manufacturing capabilities, our scientific and production experts are highly qualified to analyze projects, consider issues and propose problem solving ideas. Their experience comes from traditional APIs and biologic manufacturing as well as industry-leading emerging technologies like:

 

• High-Potency APIs
• Solid-State Chemistry Research
• Viral Products
• Chemical-Biological API Conjugation
• Customers can depend upon SAFC Pharma's quality assurance and comprehensive regulatory expertise.

   

SAFC Hitech

SAFC Hitech provides a unique chemistry service translating application understanding into performance materials. Through an integrated approach from research and development, process development and scale-up to commercial scale manufacturing SAFC Hitech innovates and manufactures chemicals enabling your current and future technology needs. As a leading supplier of performance chemicals for manufacturing, SAFC Hitech is an integral partner in the development, scale-up, and commercialization of advanced materials and chemistries. We leverage SAFC's unparalleled chemical expertise and breadth of capabilities to enable our customers to optimize their product's performance. And the result? Innovative solutions at the leading edge of materials technology. In addition to high-purity inorganics for high technology applications we offer a range of standard and custom made electronic grade chemicals such as thin film deposition precursors and photoresist dyes. Ultimately, our ability to take an idea, bring it to fruition and take the resulting product to market quickly, maximizes value for our customers and giving them a real competitive edge.

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