Dextra manufactures specialist and niche chemicals, especially complex oligosaccharides and other sugar derivatives.
Dextra will ensure an efficient issue-free technology transfer from Reading to the Palmerston North site. The Company will undertake multi-step syntheses manufactured to your specification, starting at the gram to multi-kilogram scale. NZP's strengths are in process optimisation and long term manufacturing contracts from kilograms to tonnes per annum scale.
Dextra's product development strength focusses on:
- process and scale-up optimisation for multi-step synthesis,
- analytical method development
- analytical method and process qualification and validation
- documentation for GMP audits
- Drug Master Files (DMFs).
Redesign of synthetic methods can be undertaken by Dextra chemists, with customer consent.
Non-technical benefits for working with the Company include:
- A competitive cost structure based on efficient operations
- Labour rates in New Zealand are on average 50% lower than the UK for equivalent work and significantly less than the labour rates in the USA.
New Zealand is known for its ease of doing business according to the World Competitiveness yearbook 2005. For more information please refer to: http://www.investmentnz.govt.nz/section/14233.aspx.
New Zealand is world-reknowned for its clean and green environment.
Amongst the Dextra and NZP manufacturing specialties are:
- Bile acid derivatives; for example glycocholic acid
- Sugar derivatives
- Chemical and enzyme synthesis (custom synthesis)
- Natural product extraction and purification from biomass (marine and terrestrial products, small molecule bioactives and polymers)
- Chemical modification of natural products (GMP)
Contact us for further information.