About
In december of 2018, Chemoxy, PCAS and all Novacap’s activities unify their names and become Seqens, an integrated global leader in pharmaceutical synthesis and specialty ingredients.
Chemoxy is now part of Seqens Custom Specialties division and PCAS of Seqens Advanced Specialties division. These two business units are dedicated to custom chemistry.
Driven by a culture of excellence and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Advanced & Custom Specialties work closely together and are committed to providing our customers with the highest level of service and quality while acting ethically, in line with our corporate social responsibility program.
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Our locations
Porcheville
France78440 Porcheville
Surface: 40, 000 m²
Lab surface: 2, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 4 kilo-labs
- 2 cGMP pilot plants with 11 multipurpose reactors from 100 L to 2, 800 L (total capacity of 12 m³)
- Temperature range: -15/+150°C (hastelloy reactor: -80/+200°C)
- 3 finishing rooms (agitated filter dryers, filters, dryers, milling and sieving equipments)
Flagship technologies:
- Crystallization expertise and technologiesd(salt, co-crystal and polymorph screenings, process development)
- Process Safety expertise and tecnologies
- Flow chemistry for fine chemicals
- Potent API process development
- Genotoxic Impurities
- Issue Management
- Generic A.P.I Solid state expertise
Last inspection: ANSM October 2018
Certification: GMP
Number of scientists: 110
Other: Ecosystem Pharma with integrated services
Nîmes Protéus by Seqens
France30000 Nîmes
Surface: 1, 000 m²
Lab surface: 500 m²
Capacities:
- 1 kilo-lab in fermentation (80 L total capacity)
- Robotic platform for highthroughput screening (HTS)
- Analytical platform for chromatography (GC, GC-MS, U-HPLC)
Flagship technologies:
- Protein engineering
- Microbiology aerobic & anaerobic
- Syngas fermentation
- Enzymes & strains fermentation
- Biochemistry
- Biocatalysis
- Design of experiments (DoE)
- Data mining
Number of scientists: 19
Ecully
France69134 Ecully
- Seqens Group headquarter
- Essential Drug Substances headquarter
- Solvent & Phenol Specialties headquarter
- Acid & Derivatives headquarter
Advanced Specialties Bourgoin-Jallieu
France38300 Bourgoin-Jallieu
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Advanced Specialties Canada
CanadaQC J3B8J8 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Surface: 15, 500 m²
Lab surface: 200 m²
Flagship technologies:
- Monomers and polymers Heterocycles
- Polyphenol and azo dyes (with a low metal content)
- Photo-active compounds (PAC) / photo-active generators (PAG)
- Cyanine-based dyes
- NOVOLAK and phenolic resins
- Silicon chemistry (polysiloxane)
- Anthracene derivatives (microelectronic grade)
Last inspections: ISO 9001 February 2019
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- C-TPAT
- Responsible Care
Number of scientists: 8
Advanced Specialties Couterne
France61410 Couterne
Surface: 120, 000 m²
Capabilities: 190 m³ of ISO 9001 reactors and kilo-lab
Flagship technologies: Most standard organic synthesis reactions (large volumes)
Certifications: ISO 9001
Custom Specialties Middlesbrough
United KingdomTS3 6AF Middlesbrough
Surface: 68, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 48 plate distillation column
- 18 plate distillation column
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-30m³ capacity with distillation columns attached (6-30 plates)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Etherification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transeterification
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
Packaging: Drumming and IBC filling facility
Custom Specialties Billingham
United KingdomTS23 1PY Billingham
Surface: 42, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-35 m³ capacity with associated distillation columns of 6-30 plates
- Glass lined reaction vessel (14 m³)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transeterification
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
Packaging: Drumming and IBC filling facility