AGC and CatSci ally

Under a newly signed partnership, AGC Pharma Chemicals and CatSci will combine to offer the former’s expertise in GMP manufacturing from development and manufacturing through to commercial with the latter’s in chemical development, analytical development, crystallisation and solid form, pre-formulation and HPAPI capabilities.

The two said that they are aligned in values and will add strategic value to customers’ drug development journeys. They will work together to provide scalable small molecule API manufacturing from grams to tonnes, offering manufacturing technologies including fluorination, bromination, hydrogenation, cryogenic, HPAPI, micronisation and continuous flow.

Subsequently, on 3 April, CatSci saw the new oligonucleotide laboratory at its site in Cardiff, UK, officially opened by Morfudd Meredith, Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan. Her visit was also made to commemorate CatSci’s achievement in winning The Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2022.