Small Molecule API CMO Partners
The FDA defines Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) as any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as the active ingredient in the manufacture of a drug or medicinal product.
Your API may need to be in the form of liquids, powders, crystals and extracts, and processed by chemical synthesis, plant extraction, or other means. The synthesis of small-molecule APIs, although successfully performed for decades, still presents a complicated, multi-step process involving chemical transformations and operations on a range of raw materials with different physical and chemical properties. Specialized expertise is needed to achieve success, from small-scale development, to cGMP clinical and commercial quantities.
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Small Molecule API CMOs

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services
Working with Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, you get a trusted CDMO partner that has the power to make your every challenge our own, sharing your unwavering tenacity and dedication from pre-clinical program to commercial successes. We leverage our broad range of capabilities and services at our sites in Belgium, India, Japan, and the US to support your program goals.
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Asymchem
For over 20 years, Asymchem has been positioned and structured to act as a true partner for pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide by offering integrated solutions across all stages of drug development and into commercialization.
As a CDMO with 8 state-of-the-art manufacturing sites, Asymchem's breadth of capabilities spans conventional batch manufacturing, and we are a world leader in green chemistry.
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Bora Pharmaceuticals
At Bora Pharmaceuticals, we see it as our mission, our duty, our responsibility, to make our success and our customer's success more certain.
Bora Pharmaceuticals is a premier international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in formulation development, clinical and commercial manufacturing and packaging of complex oral solid dose, liquid, and semi-solid pharmaceutical Rx and OTC products for clinical and commercial uses.
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Cambrex
Cambrex is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides drug substance, drug product, and analytical services across the entire drug lifecycle. With over 40 years of experience and a growing team of over 2,200 experts servicing global clients from North America and European sites, Cambrex is a trusted partner in branded and generic markets for API and dosage form development and manufacturing.

Catalent
Catalent is a global leader in providing integrated services, superior drug delivery technologies and manufacturing solutions to help life science innovators develop and launch successful pharmaceuticals, biologics and consumer health products.

Celanese
Celanese Corporation is a global chemical leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use the full breadth of Celanese's global chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the corporation.
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Esteve Química
Esteve Química is a contract development and manufacturing organization for small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients and advanced intermediates. Our objective is to build long-term partnerships with our customers based on trust. We are committed to delivering on our promises, providing excellent service, offering flexibility, and being a resource for our partners. Together, we can reach our common goal of advancing health to improve patients' lives.

Evonik
Evonik serves as a global development partner and solutions provider to biotechnology companies to help them transform complexity into value. We bring together a broad, versatile range of core competencies, a trusted global network of sites, and strong technical expertise to support you in the development, scale-up, and manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products.

Kymanox Corporation
Kymanox is a life science professional services organization that offers engineering, scientific, and compliance support to companies exclusively in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and combination product industries. With its diverse team, Kymanox helps clients navigate commercialization challenges that arise throughout a product's lifecycle – from early development to post-market commercialization – with optimized safety, quality, efficacy, and accessibility.

Lonza
Lonza is a preferred global partner to the pharmaceutical, biotech and nutrition markets. We work to enable a healthier world by supporting our customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. We achieve this by combining technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise and process excellence. Our unparalleled breadth of offerings enables our customers to commercialize their discoveries and innovations in the healthcare industry.

Patheon, by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific's Patheon provides industry-leading pharma services solutions for drug development, clinical trial logistics and commercial manufacturing to customers of all sizes.

PCI Pharma Services
PCI Pharma Services is an integrated full service provider, a proven and trusted partner to leading companies in the global healthcare industry. We offer unparalleled expertise and experience in taking compounds from the earliest stages of development through to successful commercialization, delivering speed-to-market and commercial success for our customers.
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Pfizer CentreOne
Pfizer CentreOne is a global CDMO embedded within Pfizer and a leading supplier of specialty APIs.
Working together with our customers, we combine our knowledge with open dialogue to solve challenges.

Quotient Sciences
Quotient Sciences is a drug development and manufacturing accelerator providing integrated programs and tailored services across the entire development pathway for small molecule & peptide drug programs. Cutting through silos across a range of drug development capabilities, we save precious time and money in getting drugs to patients.

Syngene International
Syngene provides comprehensive process R&D services as well as cGMP manufacturing capacities to help clients with investigational to commercial-scale development programs. We cater to several industries including pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, agrochemicals, polymers, oligonucleotides, animal health, and consumer products. We provide end-to-end, integrated services ranging from process design and development to large-scale manufacturing for conventional small molecules, highly potent molecules and macromolecules.
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