Industrial Capabilities
SEQENS ADVANCED SPECIALTIES is a worldwide leader in custom chemistry for industry players, offering R&D and manufacturing expertise for the development of your specialty chemicals.
Widening your capabilities with our industrial equipment
Our equipment

Our key technologies & processes
- Batch Reactions
- Catalyst Regeneration
- Crystallization
- Distillation
- Drying
- Extractions
- Flow chemistry
- Filtration
- Fixed-bed Reaction
- Hydrogenation
- Low metal purification
- Recrystallization
R&D AND CUSTOM MANUFACTURING EXPERTISE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINE CHEMICALS
Widen your capabilities with our industrial equipment
Seqens is a European reference in industrialization of high value added custom materials, granting flexibility and reliability to its customers. We help you from the early stage of upscaling development, acting as an external support to bring your products from laboratory to factory. Offering multi-step synthesis, process optimization and cost reduction advice, we also have strong assets to integrate your supply chain as an outsourcer in the case of “make or buy” decisions.
Seqens highly flexible technological platform adapts to your requirements and meets your needs, no matter how varied. We count on our extensive toolbox of chemistries and processes to provide you with the best tailor-made solutions, committing to high quality standards.
Overcome your chemical challenges with our R&D expertise
Seqens teams closely collaborate with customers so as to understand their requirements and major hurdles all along the projects. Thanks to seasoned scientists and state-of-the-art lab equipment located in our global R&D centers, we are able to support customer innovation within contract research projects. In France, working with us enables you to get a Crédit Impôt Recherche (CIR) tax refund.
We have formed partnerships with leading companies in many industrial sectors including cosmetics, defense & aerospace, energy storage, fluid processing, paint & ink, plastic & rubber.
Optimize your time to market with our custom chemistry process
Seqens offers the possibility to start your collaboration from the stage you need: R&D study, scale-up or industrialization. We work in complete confidentiality on the processes you own. We are also able to develop or optimize a specific process thanks to our R&D teams and pilots.
Seqens bets on long-term relationship through supply agreements, while offering occasional manufacturing services when needed. Committed to success of customers’ projects and equipment upgrade, we invest in new industrial and R&D equipment each year.
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
Advanced Specialties Bourgoin-Jallieu
France38300Bourgoin-Jallieu
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Advanced Specialties Canada
CanadaQC J3B8J8Saint-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
France61410Couterne
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