Chemspec

04 January 1994 00:00  [Source: PCE]

Chemspec '94 returns to the G-Mex Centre, Manchester, between 20-21 April. We preview some of the companies which will be participating

Albright and Wilson Ltd

210-222 Hagley Road West

Oldbury

West Midlands

M68 ONN, UK Tel: +44-(0)21-4205121

Fax: +44-(0)21-4205256

Stand: C1

Contact: Carol Othen

Product Category: Speciality chemicals

The company has its roots in phosphorous chemistry, supplying intermediates to the lubricant, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, adhesive, paint, inks and varnish industries. At Chemspec it will be represented by its phosphorous specialities, industrial surfactants, biocides, and petroleum additives groups.

Allied Colloids Ltd

PO Box 38

Low Moor Bradford

BD12 OJZ, UK

Tel: +44-(0)274-671267

Fax: +44-(0)274-606499

Stand: 103

Product category: Fine chemicals, pharmaceutical intermediates, speciality monomers

The company's fine chemicals division was formed two years ago to supply organic intermediates derived from acrylonitrile, acrylamide and acrylic acid. The portfolio includes speciality amines, nitrites, and high performance monomers.

Bayer plc

Bayer House

Strawberry Hill

Newbury

Berks

RG13 13A, UK

Tel: +44-(0)635-563057

Fax: +44-(0)635-563513

Stand: L1-K1

Contact: Graham Courtenay

Product category: Chemicals

The latest edition of the Bayer Organica Development Products book will be on display, detailing new intermediates developed by the company over the past few years. It complements the long-established Bayer Organica Products book which lists the group's 3000 strong range of chemical raw materials and intermediates.

Boots Chemicals

Main Office D110

Beeston

Nottingham

NG2 3AA, UK

Tel: +44-(0)602-591646

Fax: +44-(0)602-591680

Stand: A53

Contact: Julian Toler, Ian Draycott

Product category: Fine chemicals, speciality chemicals, intermediates, contract manufacturing, custom synthesis, biocides, preservatives

Boots offers contract manufacturing of speciality chemicals and intermediates as well as bulk pharmaceuticals and biocides for a wide range of industries. The company has two UK manufacturing sites, with expertise in brominations, Grignards, Friedel Crafts acylation/alkylations, gomberg reactions, halex fluorination and catalytic oxidations.

Buss AG, Basel

Hohenrainstrasse

4133 Prattein

Switzerland

Tel: 41-(0)61-8256247

Fax: 41-(0)61-8256737

Stand: A40

Contact: Daniel Nardin, Martin Grantham, Adrian Cameron

Buss builds high performance reactors in particular for catalytic hydrogenations and ethoxylations. At Chemspec it is highlighting its reaction technology, in particular a skid mounted, modular built Buss Loop reactor.

Callery Chemical Co

1420 Mars-Evans City Road

Evans City

Pennsylvania 16033

US

Tel: 1-(0)412-9674141

Fax: 1-(0)412-9674140

Stand: E11

Contact: Richard Radomski, JM Barendt

Product category: Boron, organometallic and alkali metal chemicals

Callery Chemical Company describes itself as the world's largest commercial producer of amine boranes and other borane compounds, chiral reducing agents, alkali metals and metal alkoxides. Many products in its range are used in the pharmaceutical, electronics, plastics, flavours and fragrancies and agrochemical industries.

Chiroscience Ltd

Cambridge Science Park

Milton Road

Cambridge

CB4 AWE, UK

Tel: +44-(0)223-420430

Fax: +44-(0)223-420440

Stand: D3

Contact: Nicola Talbot

Product Category: Chiral intermediates and bulk actives

Chiroscience is focused on the discovery and development of single isomer pharmaceuticals, including the supply of complex single isomer chemical intermediates, the development of established racemic drugs and the discovery of novel chemical entities.

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Chemical Manufacture, & Refining Ltd

Hendon Dock

Sunderland

Tyne & Wear

SR1 2ES, UK

Tel: +44-(0)91-5654018

Fax: +44-(0)91-5656121

Stand: A22

Contact: Barry Shaw

Product category: Solvent recovery and cement kiln incineration

CMR specialises in toll processing of byproducts and intermediates, toll manufacture for processing pilot plant and production scale runs, purchase/removal of contaminated solvent mixtures and byproducts and their sale.

Contract Chemicals Ltd

Penrhyn Road

Knowsley Industrial Park South

Prescot, Merseyside, L34 SHY, UK

Tel: +44-51-5488840

Fax: +44-51-5486548

Stand: A45

Contact: Linda Beaumont

Product category: Contract manufacture, toll synthesis, organic intermediates, catalysts, corrosion inhibitors

Contract Chemicals' main strengths include amination, cyanation, alkylation, acylation, thionyl chloride and epichlorohydrin chemistry, supported by extensive environmental authoristions. It also has facilities for contract manufacture and toll synthesis.

Courtaulds Chemicals

Macclesfield Road, Leek

Staffordshire, ST13 8UZ, UK

Tel: +44-538-399100

Fax: +44-538-399025

Stand: H7

Product categories: Esters, pharmaceutical intermediates and aroma chemicals

Main ester products include acetates, chloroacetates and speciality esters; and in the field of aroma chemicals, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols and esters. In pharmaceutical intermediates it is a leading supplier of trityl chloride.

Degussa Ag

Weissfrauenstrabe 9

60287 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tel: +49-69-218-01

Fax: +49-69-218-3218

Stand: E100

Contact: Mike Raymond

Product Category: Catalysts, derivatives of acrolein, cyanogen chloride, hydrogen chloride, isophorone diamine sodium hydride, amino acids and their derivatives.

Among other specialities, Degussa will be presenting various derivatives, such as those of acrolein, cyanogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide.

Eastman Fine Chemicals

Acornfield Road, Kirkby

Liverpool, L33 7UF, UK

Tel: +44-51-548-6560

Fax: +44-51-547-2404

Stand: B1

Contact: Frank Rescigno, Richard Daniels Product category: Organic intermediates, custom/contract manufacture

Eastman Fine Chemicals specialises in the R&D, manufacture, sale and distribution of fine chemicals into the pharma, agchem, photo and industrial chemical markets, offering custom manufacturing in Europe and the US.

Elf Atochem

4 Cours Michelet, Cedex 42

92091 Paris La Defence 10, France

Tel: +33-149-00-80-80

Fax: +33-1-49-00-83-96

Stand: H126/127

Product category: Fine chemicals and industrials, engineering and functional polymers, specialities

Elf Atochem operates in the areas of specialities and basic chemicals. Among the products to be exhibited are its sulphur chemicals, bromine derivatives, surfactants and specialities and organometallic catalysts.

EMS-Dottikon AG

CH 5605 Dottikon, Switzerland

Tel: +41-57-261-155

Fax: +41-57-242-121

Stand: 71

Contact: S Ackermann, R Elsener

Product category: Chemical intermediates

EMS specialises in production of organic intermediates used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, agchems, additives, dyes and pigments, flavours and fragrances and photochemicals. New groups are indoles, indazoles, bezimidazoles, monosubstituted piperazines of high purity and chirals.

Esseco Spa

Via Per San Cassiano, 28069 Trecate

Fraz S. Martino, Novara, Italy

Tel: +39-321-790-238

Fax: +39-321-790-215

Contact: C P Corradi, Mary Rosso

Stand: W12

Product category: Sulphur dioxide and derivative salts

Esseco has expanded the range of its products to cover the food industry, photography, oenology, paper mill, textiles and water treatment.

Fisons Chemicals

Bishop Meadow Road

Loughborough, Leics, LE11 ORG, UK

Tel +44-509-231-166

Fax: +44-509-616-015

Stand: F11/G12

Product category: Intermediates, fine chemicals and custom synthesis

Fisons engages in contract and toll manufacture as well as custom synthesis. Like many speciality chemical companies, Fisons is developing its skills in chiral resolution and synthesis.

Fluorochem Ltd

Wesley Street, Old Glossop

Derbyshire, SK13 9RY, UK

Tel: +44-457-868-921

Fax: +457-869-360

Stand: A2

Contact: Peter Whitehead

Product category: Distribution of fine chemicals and scientific glassware.

Fluorochem will be exhibiting its Fluorine catalogue FC-13 which lists over 3000 organic and inorganic fluorine-containing chemicals, mainly aimed at the R&D chemist.

FMC Lithium Division

Commercial Road

Bromborough

Wirral

Merseyside

L62 3NL, UK

Tel: +44-51-334-8085

Fax: +44-51-334-8085

Stand: 239

Contact: Stephen Lewis, Frank Reed

FMC Lithium Division has production facilities in Europe and the US. Much of its R&D is devoted to developing advanced organometallic reagents, catalysts and intermediates. In additiom to its range of inorganic compounds of lithium, it also produces speciality products such as butyllithium.

Hampshire Chemical Ltd

Northdale House, North Circular Rd

London, NW10 7UH, UK

Tel: +44-81-961-9366

Fax: +44-81-963-0928

Stand: G9

Contact: Stephen Arnold, Claus Neufeld

Product category: chemical intermediates, chelating agents and derivatives, and fatty acid sarcosinate surfactants.

Hampshire Chemical was formed in 1992, with operations based around cyanide chemistry. At Chemspec the focus will be on the fine chemicals sector, particularly standard products such as nitriles, cyanohydrins aminonitriles hydantoins and their derivatives.

Heinrich Mack Nachf

PO Box 49 49

D-76032 Karlsruhe, Germany

Tel: +49-721-610-102

Fax: +49-721-610-1534

Stand: A55

Contact: E Barroso

Product category: Speciality chemicals and custom synthesis

Mack specialises in protected sugar derivatives, nucleoside derivatives, and nucleotide derivatives. It also undertakes custom synthesis on request at its site in Illertissen, Germany.

Hoechst UK Ltd

Hoechst House, Salisbury House

Hounslow, Middlesex, TW4 6JH, UK

Tel: +44-81-570-7712

Fax: +44-81-570-2509

Stand: J3

Contact: Rosemary Thurston

Product category: Fine chemicals and speciality products

In the fine chemicals sector the company will be representing its range of aromatic intermediates particularly for the synthesis of pharmaceutical and agrochemical active substances.

Hickson Fine Chemicals

Wheldon Road, Castleford

West Yorks, UK

Tel: +44-977-556-565

Fax: +44-977-603-664

Stand: P3

Contact: Peter Cooper

Product category: Fine chemicals

Hickson specialises in nitration. The Castleford site performs both continuous nitration of toluene, with isomer separationa nd further reaction, and specialist batch nitration with nitric acid, mixed acids or in solvent.

Holliday Dyes and Chemicals Ltd

Leeds Road, Huddersfield

West Yorks, UK

Tel: +44-484-421-841

Fax: +44-484-515-328

Stand: R12/S12

Contact: Tracey Coldwell

Product category: Speciality chemicals

Holiday Dyes & Chemicals specialises in speciality chemicals for the pyrotechnics, transfer printing, resin pigments, plastics, dyestuffs and pharmaceuticals sectors. Other divisions in the group supply products to the photographic sector, inorganic metal salts, pharmaceutical actives and intermediates and ink and pigment dispersions.

Huntingdon Research Centre Ltd

PO Box 2, Huntingdon

Cambs, PE18 6ES, UK

Tel: +44-480-890-431

Fax: +44-480-890-693

Stand: 30

Contact: Roger Anderson, Paul Brooker

Product category: Contract research organisation

Established over 40 years ago, HRC has developed facilities for the determination of: physico-chemical properties, pharmacology; acute, subacute and chronic toxicity; metabolism and pharmacokinetics; irritation and sensitisation and others.

Janssen Pharmaceutica

B-2440 Geel, Belgium

Tel: +32-14-604-200

Fax: +32-14-604-220

Stand: T1

Contact: Roger Hird

Janssen supplies fine chemicals for research in industry to chemists and chemical buyers.

Johnson Matthey plc

Orchard Road, Royston, Herts, SG8 5HE, UK

Tel: +44-763-253-000

Fax: +44-763-253-466

Stand: K5

Contact: Graham Couzens, Ivor Dodgson

Product category: Advanced materials and precious metals technology

The chemicals group will be presenting a wide range of chemicals process catalysts and speciality chemicals.

Katwijk Chemie bv

Postbus 526, 2220 AM Katwijk, Netherlands

Tel: +31-1717-56789

Fax: +31-1718-56700

Stand: A27

Contact: D H Holsboer

Product category: Pharmaceutical active ingredients, chemical intermediates With its relocation in 1991 to a new plant, the company expanded its production with new pharmaceuticals and intermediates.

Kemira Fine Chemicals

PO Box 330, 00101 Helsinki

Finland

Tel: +358-0-13211

Fax: +358-0-1321707

Stand: G6

Contact: Ari Lokio, Elias Suokas

Product category: Crop protection products, organic intermediates

Kemira's range of organic intermediates covers intermediates for pharmaceuticals, dyestuffs, agrochemicals, colour formers and polymers.

Laporte Organics

C/o Fine Organics Ltd

Seal Sands, Middlesbrough

Cleveland, TS2 1UB, UK

Tel: +44-642-546-666

Fax: +44-642-546-823

Stand: A37

Contact: A Jackson, J F Chrisp, N P Boden

Product category: Fine chemicals manufacture

Laporte Organics - known as Fine Organics in the UK, Raylo Chemicals in Canada, Peroxid Chemie in Germany and Aztec in the US - specialises in the manufacture of pharmaceutical and agrochemical intermediates and polymerisation initiators.

Lonza Ltd

Fine Chemicals

Munchensteinerstrasse 38

CH-4002 Basle, Switzerland

Tel: +41-61-316-81-11

Fax: +41-61-315-83-01

Stand: A4

Contact: Marc New, Matthew Robin

Product category: Fine chemicals

Lonza products are available as fine chemicals, intermediates or bulk active substances to customers in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical dyestuffs and plastics industries.

Macfarlane Smith Ltd

Wheatfield Road, Edinburgh

EHH11 2QA, Scotland

Tel: +44 (0)31 337 2434

Fax: +44 (0)31 337 9813

Stand: B4

Contact: Dr Norman Ellis

Product Category: Pharmaceutical bulk actives and intermediates.

Multi-stage chemical synthesis and extraction of natural materials are used to produce more than 50 compounds.

E Merck

D-64271 Darmstadt, Germany

Tel: +49-6151 72 0

Fax: +49-6151 727630

Stand: A8-A10 (Formulate)

Special and fine contact: Manfred Heyl - general manager business unit pharma/ food industry; Dr Fritz Schindler, technical manager; Nicolette Middleton, product specialist

Merck consist of companies which are active in more than 40 countries. The group owns manufacturing facilities in 43 location all over the world.

Nobel Chemicals AB

S-691 85 Karlskoga, Sweden

Stand: A24

Tel: +46 586 83000

Fax: +46 586 32147

Contact: Per Wahlström, Dr Boris Holm, Malcolm Franklin

Product category: Fine chemicals

The company manufactures fine chemicals with nitration and nitric acid oxidation as the basic technologies.

Nipa Laboratories Ltd

Sandycroft, Deeside

Clwyd CH5 2PX, Wales

Tel: +44 (0)244 52077

Fax: +44 (0)244 537216

Stand: K3

Contact: Dr TJ Reve - business director, chemicals; Dr JA Parr - business director, biocides; EA Davies - business manager, pharmaceutical chemicals.

Nipa is a member of the biocides and fine chemicals division of BTP.

Oxford Chemicals Limited

Shires Road, Brackley, Northants

NN13 7EZ, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)280 702015

Fax: +44 (0)280 701745

Stand: G2

Contact: Dr Duncan Mulls, Peter Cannon, Bryan Price.

A leading supplier of specialised aroma chemicals for the flavour and fragrance industries.

Performance Chemicals

Quadrant House, The Quadrant

Sutton, Surrey SM2 AS, UK

Tel: +44 (0)81 652 8056

Fax: +44 (0)81 652 8918

Contact: Naresh Gupta, editor; Alan Tyler, deputy editor; Ken Walford, advertisement manager; Malcolm Fullerton, advertisement executive; Jo Webb, subscriptions

Product category: Publishers of Performance Chemicals, ECN, Asia-Pacific Chemicals, and Chemical Insight.

Visitors will be able to see copies of the recently launched Performance Chemicals New Bulletin.

Royal Pakhoed NV

Blaak 333, 3011 GB Rotterdam Tel: +31 (0)102130063 Fax: +31 (0)104002273 Stand: A47 Contact: P Van't Hoff, M van Waveren Product category: Storage of liquid and dry chemicals, custom refining

PCAS

23 rue Bossuet

Z.1. de la Vigne aux Loups, 91160 Longjumeau, France

Tel: +33 1 69 00 77 85

Fax: +33 1 64 48 23 19

Stand: T2

Product category: Organic synthesis, flavours/fragrances, electronic chemicals, custom/contract manufacture.

PCAS manufactures customised chemicals including intermediates and active materials for the pharma, agro, veterinary, cosmetic, perfumery, reprographic and related industries.

Phillips Petroleum Chemicals

Brusselsesteenweg 355-3090

Overijse, Belgium

Tel: +32 (0)2 689 1211

Fax: +32 (0)2 689 1472

Stand: D4 Contact: M Daborn and H Porter

In Belgium, Phillips' runs a plant for the production of high-quality organo sulphur compounds, including mercaptans, sulphides, polysulphides, thioalcohols and thioethers.

Phoenix Chemicals Ltd

34 Thursby Road, Croft Industrial Estate

Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside L62 3PW

Tel: +44 (0)51 334 9044

Fax: +44 (0)51 334 9045

Stand: M5

Contact: Dr Derek Palmer, Robert Palmer, Dr Mark Masento

Phoenix Chemicals offers a bespoke process development and manufacturing service, specialising in synthesis/ safe handling of hazardous chemicals.

Propeptide

BP 12, 91710 Vert Le Petit, France

Tel: +33 1 64 99 03 20

Fax: +33 1 64 99 12 50

Stand: B10

Contact: SNPE

Product category: Protected amino-acids A member of the SNPE Group, Propeptide specialises in protected amino-acids. Using technologies originating from SNPE, Propeptide has developed a range of amino acid derivatives.

Quality Chemicals/First Chemical Group

1001 Industrial Road

PO Box 7006, Pascagoula

MS 39568-7005

US

Tel: +1 601 762 0870

Fax: +1 601 762 5213

Stand: R6

Contact: Joe M Baker, Jr, Nike Brown, Carl W Arnold, Peter Gilderson

The First Chemical Group is a family of companies specialising in the manufacture, sale and distribution of value-added chemicals.

Rohner Ltd

Gempenstrasse 6

CH-4133 Prattein, Switzerland

Tel: +41 (0)61 825 1111

Fax: +41 (0)61 825 1271

Stand: 92

Contact: Dr R Pfeiffer and JL Roulet

Protect category: Fine chemicals

The chemistry of substituted aromatics is Rohner's speciality. Rohner offers expertise in the following chemistry: Alkali fusion, chlorosulfonation, dehydration, hydrazine chemistry, and Meerwein and Sandmeyer.

Robinson Brothers Ltd

Phoenix St. West Bromwich B70 OAH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)21 553 2451

Fax: +44 (0)21 500 5183

Stand: P5

Product category: Specialised organic chemicals and custom synthesis

Catalytic reduction is an area of Robinson Brothers' expertise carried out in production scale autoclaves. In-house experience extends to chiral reduction using storeospecific chiral complexes.

SEAC

28 bd Camelinat-BP 77 92233 Gennevilliers, France Tel: +33 1 40 85 03 13 Fax: +33 1 40 85 50 35 Stand: P2 Contact: C Lupo Product category: Fine chemicals SEAC, a subsidiary of CFPI, manufactures fine chemicals as intermediates or active materials for the pharmaceutical, photographic and other chemical industries.

SNPE Chimie/SNPE Group

12 Quai Henri IV 75181 Paris cedes 04, France Tel: +33 1 48 04 68 45 Fax: +33 1 48 04 69 89 Stand: B10 Contact: Bernard Roussel SNPE will be introducing its new pharmaceutical specialities department which concentrates technical know-how in phogenation, nitration, and hydrogenation.

Synkem

47 rue de Longvic, BP 50

21301 Chenove Cedex, France

Tel: +33 80 44 72 72

Fax: +33 80 44 72 70

Stand: Q4

Product category: Active ingredients, intermediates and custom synthesis. Synkem carries out the development and the industrialisation of client's new molecules within pharma, cosmetics, veterinary and high-tech industries.

Synprotec Ltd

303 Clayton lane

Manchester M11 4SK, UK

Tel: +44 (0)61 223 3344

Fax: +44 (0)61 220 8778

Stand: H177

Contact: Dr Nightingale and Mr Hunter.

Product category: Contract research and manufacture. Synprotec offers its experience in the production of fine chemical intermediates, including multistage synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediates involving dangerous reagents.

Tessenderlo Chemie

1 Square de Meenus

1040 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: +32 2 519 1991

Fax: +32 2 519 1971

Stand O83

Contact: B. Stockhem

Product category: Fine chemicals, intermediates, bulk pharmaceuticals

The company specialises in the production of synthetic organic compounds at its five plants, including benzylchloride, oxalyl chloride and derivates.

UCB Chemicals

326 avenue Louise Box 7

B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: +32 (0)2 641 1411

Fax: +32 (0)2 640 9860

Stand: A31

Contact: August Vrancken, Stefaan Fiey, and Guy Van Den Bossche

UCB is a manufacturer of functional monomers, plasticizers for polyamides, special ester and fine chemicals serving the coatings, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and engineering plastic industries.

CU Chemie Uetikon

Raiffeisenstrabe 4, 77933 Lahr, Germany Tel: +49 7821 5850 Fax: +49 7821 585 230 Stand: R7 Product category: Active ingredients, chiral intermediates, contract manufacturing, and fine and speciality chemical;s Cu Chemie Uetikon in an independent, flexible, FDA inspected production partner for the pharma industry.

Wacker Chemicals Ltd

The Clock Tower, Mount Felix, Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 1AS

Tel: +44 (0)932 2461111

Fax: +44 (0)932 240141

Stand: C4

Contact: W Chow

Product category: Fine chemicals and intermediates

From baic feedstocks of ethylene and chlorine, Wacker's core technologies are ketene/diketene chemistry, production of chloro-carbonyl compounds and components for synthesis of hetero cyclics.

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