Our specialty ingredients offer
A leader in Specialty ingredients
Mastering a wide range of technologies, Seqens provide their clients with custom research and manufacturing services as well as a broad portfolio of own products. Seqens offer technical excellence, continuous improvement plans and innovative tailor made solutions from a network of 3 R&D centers serving the Specialty ingredients market and 6 manufacturing sites. Seqens ensure seamless in-house process development, scale-up and manufacturing.
- Seqens is a leading provider of organic chemistry solutions for the specialty ingredients market
- We supply the most demanding industries with high-value and tailor-made specialty ingredients
- For the cosmetics industry, we provide best-in-class quality non-traditional preservatives, botanical active ingredients as well as access to a unique array of technologies, reactions and distillation capabilities on our multi-purpose manufacturing sites
- For the electronics industry, we provide high purity level and very low metals content polymers
- We leverage the full talent pool of Seqens, with 250 chemical engineers and scientists and 120 PhDs
- We leverage our continuum of technologies, from R&D to commercial production”
Our locations
Ecully
France69134 Ecully
- Seqens Group headquarter
- Essential Drug Substances headquarter
- Solvent & Phenol Specialties headquarter
- Acid & Derivatives headquarter
Porcheville (Seqens'Lab)
France78440 Porcheville
Surface: 40, 000 m²
Lab surface: 2, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 6 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
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Silver Certification
Advanced Specialties Canada
CanadaQC J3B8J8 Saint-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
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Number of scientists: 8
Advanced Specialties Couterne
France61410 Couterne
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
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Acid & Derivatives Pont-de-Claix
France38800 Le Pont-de-Claix
Capabilities:
- 5, 500 (storage) tons of Hydrochloric Acid
- 60 kt (production) of Ferric Chloride
- 13 kt of Alpha-Methylstyrene
- 2 kt of Acetophenone
- 8 kt of Isopropanol
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- OHSAS 18001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Platinum certification
Cosmetics Limoges
France87068 Limoges
Surface: 2, 000 m²
Lab surface: 70 m²
Capabilities: 4, 570 L of cosmetics reactors (80 L to 1 400 L)
Flagship technologies: Botanical extraction
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ECOCERT/COSMOS
Number of scientists: 3
EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Custom Specialties Billingham
United KingdomTS23 1PY Billingham
Surface: 42, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-35 m³ capacity with associated distillation columns of 6-30 plates
- Glass lined reaction vessel (14 m³)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Etherification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transeterification.
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation,
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols,
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Custom Specialties Middlesbrough
United KingdomTS3 6AF Middlesbrough
Surface: 68, 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 48 plate distillation column
- 18 plate distillation column
- 4 reaction vessels (316 L and Duplex 2205) of 25-30m³ capacity with distillation columns attached (6-30 plates)
Flagship technologies:
Primary Reactions
- Esterification
- Etherification
- Epoxidation
- Methylation/Methyl chloride capping
- Quaternisation
- Transesterification.
Secondary reactions
- Acetal formation
- Acetylation
- Aldol condensation,
- Alkylation
- Diels-Alder
- Hydrolysis
- Isomerisation
- Oxidation
- Polymerisation
Solvent Recovery
- Alcohols,
- Amines
- Aromatic solvents
- Esters
- Glycols
- Ketones
- Organic acids
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- EcoVadis CSR Rating: Gold Certification
Solvent & Phenol Specialties Grand-Serre
France26530 Le Grand-Serre
Surface: 59, 000 m²
Flagship technologies: Propylen underground storage
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 50001
- OHSAS 18001
Solvent & Phenol Specialties Roussillon
France38556 Roussillon
Surface : 160 000 m²
Capabilities:
- 185 kT Phenol
- 70 kT Isopropanol
- 27 kT Acétate Isopropyle
- 5 kT DIPE
Certifications:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 50001
- OSHAS 18001
EcoVadis CSR Rating Platinum medal
Massy
France91300 Massy