Ceriano Laghetto
Location
20 km north-west of Milan
Area
About 5.000 m2
Reactors capacity
About 35 m3 (among Stainless Steel and Glass Lined Reactors)
Operating conditions
Ranging from high vacuum (0,5 mm Hg to 6 bar pressure and temperature from -15C° to 180°C)
Finishing
Milling, sieving, blending and packaging are performed in air controlled and segregated areas
Purified water
Produced by a validated ROS plant
Warehousing
Fully air conditioned for APIs, air controlled for intermediates and raw materials
Certification
AIFA, US FDA
Ceriano Laghetto Profile
The Ceriano Laghetto site (formerly named Alchymars SpA), was established in 1958 and it has therefore a long lasting tradition in development and manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for human and veterinary use. The manufacturing unit consists of a multipurpose organic synthesis plant which operates under cGMP in accordance to strictest regulatory requirements and in compliance with local environment regulations. Thanks to its sophisticated equipments and technologies the Ceriano Laghetto site specializes in high value/low volume products and in process development from grams to hundred kg lots.
The Ceriano Laghetto site was first inspected by the US FDA in late 1985 and its facilities – fully complying with GMPs – are routinely audited by the Italian Ministry of Health and international clients.
Technologies
The following chemical reactions can be performed at Ceriano Laghetto:
- Alkylations
- Aminations
- Brominations
- Chlorinations
- Catalytic Hydrogenations
- Dehydrogenations
- Diazotations
- Esterifications
- Etherifications
- Grignard
- High temperature reactions (up to 180°C)
- High vacuum distillations
- Methylations
- Optical isomers separations
- Oxyethylations
- Phosphonations
- Reaction under pressure (up to 6 bar)
- Separations by preparatory HPLC