Craigavon, UK/Camelford, UK – 6th January 2014: Almac Group Limited (“Almac”) and Key Organics Limited (“Key Organics”) today announced that they have entered into an exclusive supply & marketing agreement.
Almac is an integrated contract research and manufacturing company providing a range of services to the international pharmaceutical industry. Privately owned, financially stable and with over 3,300 employees, Almac has its global headquarters in the UK with extensive facilities in the USA.
Within its BIONET brand, Key Organics offers an extensive range of over 74,000 screening compounds, intermediates, building blocks and biochemicals to the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agrochemical industries. Key Organics is a member of the Tennant Group, privately owned, financially secure with over 1,000 employees worldwide and business interests in a range of chemical and life science companies.
As an innovator in the application of new technologies including asymmetric synthesis, Almac wishes to extend the market range of its growing R&D product portfolio. Key Organics has access to a global customer base within the life sciences sector, excellent customer service and compound handling infrastructure that ensures that products are dispatched on the same day.
Denis Geffroy, VP Business Development commented: “Our partnership with Key Organics will allow our clients to access Almac products faster and more efficiently, this is especially important for laboratory scale, discovery and early development projects”.
Joe Carey, Managing Director at Key Organics commented: “We are delighted to enter into this agreement with Almac who have established a strong capability in asymmetric synthesis and are a fully integrated CRO/CMO with an excellent quality record”.
The agreement between the parties provides for the exclusive, global supply of Almac’s products by Key Organics.
For more information, please contact:
Key Organics:
Dr Joe Carey, Managing Director
Almac Group Limited:
Denis Geffroy, Vice President Business Development
About Key Organics
Key Organics, part of the Tennant Group of Companies, is a leading supplier of R&D compounds and chemistry contract research services to the international life sciences industries. Through its BIONET product brand, Key Organics is able to directly offer over 74,000 intermediates, fragments, biochemicals and screening compounds with same day dispatch.
More information can be found at: www.keyorganics.net, e-mail [email protected]
About Almac
‘Partnering to Advance Human Health’
The Almac Group is an established contract development and manufacturing organisation that provides an extensive range of integrated services to over 600 companies globally within the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. The services range from R&D, biomarker discovery and development, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply, IXRS® technology (IVRS/IWRS) through to commercial-scale manufacture.
The international company is a privately owned organisation that has organically grown over 30 years and now employs in excess of 3,300 highly skilled personnel. Almac is headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland with US operations based in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California.
To learn more about Almac please visit www.almacgroup.com, e-mail [email protected].
