Product Development

One of Cheminova’s core competencies is the development of production technology, and own synthesis development has been the backbone in the growth of Cheminova’s production activities. In recent years new formulation technologies have attracted more focus in Cheminova’s laboratories and the development of high quality formulations is today reflected in Cheminova’s product range.

The development of new products has high priority in Cheminova, and in todays competitive environment speed of development has become more important. This has lead to the introduction of new project management principles, which have resulted in a more efficient product development process. Focus is on developing and maintaining economically competitive production processes for new and existing products. In this respect environmental friendliness including reduction and efficient treatment of waste streams is an important parameter.

The numerous development laboratories and pilot plant facilities are located at the company head-quarters in Denmark. The laboratories are all furnished with the most modern experimental equipment, and the development work is supported by state of the art analysis laboratories. The pilot plant work benefits from Cheminova’s engineering departments and construction workshops allowing easy and fast scale up and technical verification of new production processes. In all respects the working environment lives up to the highest standards of the world.

The Development Function comprises the following three departments:

• Synthesis Development - is responsible for developing competitive production processes based on modern chemistry for new active ingredients and for supplying technical support to current productions.
• Formulation Development - is responsible for developing quality formulations for new as well as existing active ingredients based on modern formulation-technology. Likewise technical support for current products is supplied to the sales and production departments.
• Pilot Plant - is responsible for scale up, process design and technical implementation of production processes for new active ingredients as well as new formulations and developing process engineering as a basis for establishing production set ups. Additionally, production in smaller scale is carried out typically in the introduction phase for new products.

The development activities in Denmark are supplemented by development work at Cheminova India. Since the addition of the Indian subsidiary to the Cheminova group new modern laboratories as well as pilot plant facilities have been established now working closely together with the Development Function in Denmark on new products for Cheminova’s global organisation.

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