Achievements & Success Stories

CRDMO · Specialty Chemicals · Life Sciences · Crop Protection · Animal Health
2011
Zero Lot Rejections Since
>51%
Renewable Energy
since 2012
~90%
Raw Materials from India
160→360+
Commercial Scale
Reaction Trains
22
Pilot Plant
Reaction Trains
🔬 Specialty Chemicals
Specialty Chemicals | CMO / Process Intensification
7× Throughput Increase in Same Footprint
  • Scale-up — 300 MTs/yr → 2,100 MTs/yr within same footprint, minimal investment
  • Technology — Batch → CSTR-in-series, Continuous Extraction, custom flow reactor
  • Speed — All transformations achieved with just 15-day plant shutdown
Specialty Chemicals | CMO / Process Intensification
Hazardous Batch → Continuous Fixed-Bed Reactor
  • Safety — Safe operation to 50 bar / 250°C; improved conversion & selectivity
  • Scope — Aromatic saturation, azide/nitro-to-amine, reductive amination
  • Technology — Higher catalyst-to-substrate ratio; eliminated mass-transfer bottlenecks
Specialty Chemicals | CMO
Breakthrough Quality — 20+ Year Stable Process Improved
  • Application — Specialty additive for Automotive; optimised over 20+ years
  • Result — Significant, measurable quality improvement in just 6 months
  • Recognition — Large European customer: no other CMO had achieved this
Specialty Chemicals | CMO / CDMO
Crystal Size Distribution — Silo Bottleneck Eliminated
  • Solution — Redesigned crystallization: nucleation, supersaturation & cooling ramp
  • Result — Eliminated bridging/ratholing; batch cycle time significantly reduced
💊 Life Sciences & Healthcare
Life Sciences | CRO
"Amazing" Raw Material Cost Reduction: $160+ → <$70/kg
  • Molecule — Pre-launch active — 7-step synthesis
  • Saving — $90+/kg reduction in raw material cost
  • Customer remark — "Amazed that such savings could be achieved"
Life Sciences | CDMO
Sudden Phase Change Solved — Novel Reactor Design
  • Challenge — Phase change causing agitation to stop — safety & yield risk
  • Solution — Novel reactor design engineered to resolve phase change
  • Result — Improved yield delivered safely at commercial scale
Life Sciences | CDMO
Big CMOs Failed — Inventys Delivered — Chiral Amino Acid
  • Result — 98% yield vs. 70% achieved by large CMOs
  • Innovation — Chiral separation without a chiral separation agent
  • Scale — ~300 MTs/yr; 210+ minor & 16 major challenges resolved
Life Sciences | CDMO
Inventys Material Selected for Active Registration
  • Scope — 4 intermediates developed & piloted within 6 months
  • AI — Produced by selected route for regulatory registration
  • Launch — Significantly improved originator time-to-market (2030)
🐾 Animal Health
Animal Health | CRO / CDMO
Large Price Reduction: $2,500/kg → $1,200/kg
  • Active — Animal health molecule — commercial launch post-2034
  • Saving — 52% cost reduction
  • Approach — Backward integration + systematic process improvement
Animal Health | CDMO
Millions Saved in CapEx — Improved Patented Hydrogenation
  • Breakthrough — Hydrogenation pressure: 60 atm → 10 atm
  • Result — Significantly reduced catalyst loading & CapEx
  • Quality — Full product quality and yield maintained
🌾 Crop Protection
Crop Protection | CMO
Rapid TechPack → Commercial in 7 Months
  • Complexity — 4 chemical transformations across 14 reactors
  • Speed — Lab → Pilot → Plant Modification → Commercial in 7 months
  • Result — Full first-year production (30 MTs/yr) delivered ahead of schedule
Crop Protection | CDMO
Globally Cost-Competitive Process — Big 5 Originator
  • Context — Active off-patent in China; expiring US/Europe within 2 years
  • Innovation — Flow & Semi-Continuous Process for world-competitive economics
  • Scale — ~400 → ~750 MTs/yr
Crop Protection | CDMO
30% Cost Reduction & n-BuLi Handling Eliminated
  • Safety — Elegant alternative route eliminates hazardous n-BuLi usage
  • Economics — 30% cost reduction with minimal additional CapEx
Crop Protection | CDMO
New Route of Synthesis — Active Registration (Launch 2029/2030)
  • Innovation — New RoS removes need for expensive reagent
  • Regulatory — 4 intermediates developed; AI produced for registration
  • Speed — Piloted in 6 months; improves originator time-to-market
⚗️ Flow Chemistry & Process Intensification — Cross-Industry
Metric Achievement
Throughput64× increase — from 1 MT/month to 64 MTs/month
Solvent Usage91% reduction via process intensification
Energy Usage90% reduction via flow chemistry
Lithiation TemperatureRaised from −78°C to −10°C — safer & lower cost operation
Footprint Efficiency300 MT/yr → 2,100 MT/yr in the same physical footprint
Gas Phase Reaction360°C reaction, carbon economy = 1; 3,000 MT/yr plant commissioned 2019
ImplementedLithiation–Azidation & Telescoping Synthesis at commercial scale
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Sustainability Leadership

Recognised as best-in-class across the global specialty chemicals industry

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>51%
Renewable Energy
NET ZERO carbon impact maintained continuously since 2012 — over a decade of clean energy leadership
🇮🇳
~90%
Raw Materials from India
Deep backward integration eliminating critical supply chain dependencies and ensuring resilient, local sourcing
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2022
FICCI Best Green Process
Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industries — Best Green Process Award for process innovation
89
TfS Score
Together for Sustainability assessment score, reflecting best-in-class environmental and social governance
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Bronze
EcoVadis Rating
EcoVadis Bronze sustainability rating recognising robust environmental, labour, and ethics standards
ZERO
Lot Rejections Since 2011
Unbroken quality record across 5,000+ MTs and 18+ products — a testament to disciplined manufacturing culture
ISO 9001 ISO 14001 ISO 45000 ISO 50001 ISO 27001 ISO 37001 ISO 26001 WHO GMP CDSCO US FDA

"Best sustainability performance seen so far — across our entire global supplier network."

— $30+ Billion Global Healthcare Company