Facilities & Equipment

Botanical extraction


Related to our historical background, Ajinomoto OmniChem has gained a wide and strong expertise in the extraction and purification of natural products.
 
As an independent and complementary part of our synthetic chemistry portfolio, we offer a complete service starting from botanicals (or fermentation concentrates) straight through to bulk hemi synthetic API's.
 
 
Raw material
      Botanicals.
      Fermentation broths.
 
 Project development
      From lab to industrial quantities.
      Supported by a strong R&D staff, experienced in theoretical and practical aspects 
          of extraction and purification.
      Complete analytical support service.
  
Facilities
     Continuous solid/liquid and liquid/liquid extraction units.
     Wide range of solvents.
     Total capacity : 10.000 MT/year.
  
Specific know-how
      Own depestification technology.
      Cytotoxic handling.
 
 Downstream operations
      Purification, crystallization, centrifugation and drying.
      Ions-exchange columns, spray drying.