Technology

Entry fine chemicals

Fine chemicals producing companies have an increased market pressure caused by new competitors. The pressure generates a need to increase the performance development and production processes and to reduce the costs. Labor costs are the main advantage of the new competitors. Automation is easy for continuous working processes using microstructures. Labor costs can be saved as well as the performance can be increase based on micro chemical engineering principles. Scale-up becomes easier, since there is no need for a large number of scaleup-experiments. Yields can be increased up to 40 %. New windows of operation have a significant impact on processing costs. The typical starting point is a basic feasibility study.

Entry Pharma

In the process development of a pharmaceutical active substance the development time forms a substantial success criterion. The time for tests can be lowered by the use of micro-process engineering development lab plants typically around 17% with halving the substance need simultaneously. Further saving capabilities are due to the automation of the laboratory plant as well as a result of employment of on-line analytics. Within few hours a laboratory plant can be reequipped into a pilot plant. That is to say, the classical Kilo-laboratory is omitted. The quantities needed for toxicological tests can be, possibly somewhat modified, manufactured easily over the laboratory plant. For a cost-optimized production process all advantages of micro process engineering are then available. By the use of micro reactors the multi-level synthesis routes enable substantial yield increases, which are characterized by very short amortization periods in the order of magnitude of 2 to 3 years for instance. Plant components with high-grade toxic substances can be encased easily. The typical entrance is a basic feasibility study.