VIO Chemicals: Swiss excellence encompassing low-cost European R&D expertise and advanced manufacturing in China

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July 20th 2017

 

Overview

VIO Chemicals, a Swiss CDMO founded in 2001, has operated its own ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 R&D Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece, since 2016. The centre is a vital component of VIO Chemicals research and development capabilities, leveraging rigorous scientific knowledge and deploying innovative process technologies to resolve complex challenges and create distinctive value for customers’ products. Through its long-established presence in China, VIO Chemicals offers advanced manufacturing services and ensures that products meet the highest standards of quality, consistency and performance.

European R&D expertise for high-performance products

Drawing upon over 15 years of experience, VIO Chemicals demonstrates leading European R&D capabilities to support complex chemical synthesis and analysis. The VIO Chemicals R&D Centre brings together a wide range of scientific skills and innovative process technologies to create advanced and competitive products for chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech markets. The laboratory offers a complete range of chemical development services, from synthetic route design and evaluation, including IP considerations and support, to process and analytical development and validation. All stages of development and production are performed under quality control and quality assurance standards in line with formal ICH guidelines and requirements. Through its R&D centre, VIO Chemicals offers GMP/EHS auditing, consulting and regulatory support as a complementary service.

Highest level of skills

For VIO Chemicals, its greatest asset is its people. A powerhouse of science, the VIO Chemicals R&D hub hosts 35 talented scientists with an output of more than 30 patents and more than 150 publications in novel and improved processes for chemical synthesis and analysis, as a result of their academic and industrial research in the field. Its experienced scientific team possesses thorough understanding of the strict requirements of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry for quality control, quality assurance and regulatory compliance throughout all stages of development and production. The VIO Chemicals R&D team is in constant pursue of scientific excellence through regular training, participation in scientific conferences and workshops, educational programmes and exchange of expert knowledge with multidisciplinary teams in academic institutions across the world.

R&D facilities: designed to innovate

The VIO Chemicals R&D Centre in Thessaloniki meets quality assurance standards based on cGMP requirements through all stages of development and production. The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art organic synthesis, process and analytical instrumentation for greater process design flexibility, safety and performance. Laboratory instrumentation is operated under strict maintenance and quality assurance standards. The VIO Chemicals kilo lab is a self-contained unit for the production of small volume chemical compounds. For scale up operations and commercial production of advanced products the laboratory performs technology transfer to the VIO Organic Chemicals manufacturing units in Binhai, China, with production capacity ranging from a few hundred grams to several kilos.

Advanced manufacturing in China: flexible, low-cost and prompt

Through proper planning, smart process control and effective material management, VIO Chemicals offers high flexibility in production at optimum scale, reduces process and material costs and commits to product delivery within timelines.

With 3 production facilities totaling 27,000 square meters in Binhai, China, one of them cGMP-standard, VIO Organic Chemicals, also known as Yangcheng HaoHua Organic Chemicals, provides contract manufacturing and custom synthesis services under exclusivity. VIO Organic Chemicals production facilities in Binhai provide access to a broad range of technologies and production capabilities at any scale – pilot and commercial. Besides including a clean room for the production of intermediates, they are multipurpose and single product plants with medium to high throughput, low level of automation and high flexibility, equipped with glass lined and stainless steel reactors from 500l to 5,000l. All units offer a tank farm, solvent recovery towers for recycling, waste water treatment technology, electricity and a back-up generator, steam supply, waste disposal technology and water purification system. VIO Chemicals manufacturing is guided by regulatory and quality standards, according to EU, US and ICH cGMP requirements. When needed, VIO Chemicals uses the manufacturing assets of its partners and strategic network in the area.

CPhI Worldwide

VIO Chemicals will present the broad portfolio of its R&D capabilities and high performance products at CPhI Worldwide 2017 in Frankfurt, between October 24 and October 26, 2017. CPhI Worldwide is the world’s leading pharmaceutical platform, attracting more than 42,000 pharma professionals some 2,500 exhibitors from 153 countries.

VIO Chemicals will exhibit from stand #110f30, where it will present a wide range of customized solutions for the international pharma industry. VIO Chemicals will show how it combines European R&D expertise with high-end manufacturing capabilities in China, to provide an exclusive partner for businesses that seek excellence at every step of the supply chain, from chemical development to high value products.

To book appointments at CPhI, please contact VIO Chemicals at: [email protected]

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VIO Chemicals’ Thessaloniki R&D Centre features leading-edge facilities

VIO Chemicals’ Thessaloniki R&D Centre features leading-edge facilities

The Thessaloniki R&D Centre plays a key role in each part of the development process

The Thessaloniki R&D Centre plays a key role in each part of the development process

VIO Chemicals has frequently exhibited at CPhI

VIO Chemicals has frequently exhibited at CPhI


Supplier Information
Supplier: VIO Chemicals
Address: Dufourstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 380 24 44
Fax: +41 44 380 24 51
Website: www.viochemicals.com