Our Production Sites

Custom Manufacturing

Reliable, Efficient Development and Supply of Complex Molecules

Clariant’s Custom Manufacturing has its focus on key technologies giving our customers access to structures according to their needs. In our reaction portfolio there are a series of critical reactions, including but not limited to:

Grignard

Halogenations: chlorination at the aromatic ring and in the side chain, bromination, Halex-reaction

Sandmeyer reactions

Oxidations

Diazotization

C-C-coupling

Hydrogenation

These key technologies give access to a number of useful structures, including:

Phenylhydrazines

Boronic acids

Heterocycles

Diarylethers

Carboxylic acids and derivates

Clariant Custom Manufacturing is one of the world’s leading suppliers of agrochemical products including insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. Our portfolio comprises a diverse range of commercially available chemicals as well as proprietary compounds developed under exclusive contract. Based on a platform of existing product families and a strong foothold in technology Clariant Custom Manufacturing provides agrochemical companies with highly reliable yet cost-effective results.

To the pharmaceutical industry Clariant Custom Manufacturing is delivering a broad variety of standard and custom made intermediates.

Clariant Custom Manufacturing manufactures intermediates at seven facilities located on four continents. According to our customers’ needs we are able to employ reliable low cost sites or sites in the Western guaranteeing the protection of the intellectual property. This infrastructure and our expertise in providing complex multi-step organic synthesis from start up to the delivery of multiple tons help our customers minimize the risks associated with fast-track commercialization of new products.

This is supported by chemists, engineers, regulatory compliance and process safety experts that oversee process development and scale-up activities. Working together, this group allows for fast decision making on the viability of a project and ensures rapid, flawless scale-up to commercial volumes in production.