OXITENO S.A. Indústria e Comércio, a Brazilian company and leader in the production of surfactants and specialty chemicals, and HARKE Pharma, part of the international HARKE GROUP with headquarters in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, are glad to announce a strategic partnership to cooperate for the marketing of the OXIPURITY® 4000 line in Eastern Europe, Nordics, Turkey, Netherlands, Italy and Slovenia.
The OXIPURITY® 4000 line are pharmaceutical grade Polyethylene Glycols according to the EP monograph manufactured in compliance to EXCiPACT® GMP. It includes a variety of Polyethylene Glycols (PEG 300, 400, 600, 1000, 1500, 3350, 4000, 6000 and 8000) and follows the regulatory and quality requirements to attend the phar-maceutical market and its multiple applications. The OXIPURITY® 4000 line can be used for binding, as plasticizer, solubilizer and lubricant in several pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Daniel Burchart, HARKE GROUP Board Member Life Sciences and Managing Director HARKE Pharma GmbH comments: “We are proud that we could establish a cooper-ation with OXITENO, the leading producer of PEGs in the Americas. The OXIPURITY® range in pharmaceutical quality is complementary to our portfolio of excipients and APIs. The joint efforts of OXITENO and HARKE Pharma will be the basis for the com-mercial success in several parts of Europe. Within HARKE GROUP we already cooper-ate with OXITENO in other business fields as e.g. Crop Solutions. We are eager to develop further segments together.”
Fabiana Marra, Global Head of Performance Products, says, “Oxiteno is continuously working to expand its Nutrition & Health portfolio to support the challenges our cli-ents face and offer solutions and new tools to address society’s evolving health, nu-trition and care needs. Europe is a key market for our Pharma business, and partner-ing with HARKE, a strong distributor and services provider for the Pharmaceuticals industry, offers great opportunities for our OXIPURITY® products, and great benefits for clients and their formulations.”
ABOUT OXITENO S.A.
Founded in the 1970s OXITENO is a leading multinational producer of surfactants and specialty chemicals in the Americas. It has eleven industrial units across Brazil, the United States, Mexico and Uruguay, two Global Research & Development Centers, three Research & Development Facilities and eight commercial offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
The pursuit of excellence in every detail and the need to constantly evolve, drives OXITENO’s operations. With agility and a long-term vision, it faces business challenges creatively, based on knowledge and experience. The company has a team of experts dedicated to research and development always collaborating with business partners and research institutes around the world.
OXITENO has established itself as a chemical company with a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and a high standard of delivery for markets such as Crop Solutions, Home Care and I&I, Personal Care, Coatings, Oil & Gas, Nutrition & Health, Pharma and many others. It anticipates trends and develops sustainable operations, making chem-istry responsible for the progress that balances economic growth, environmental pro-tection, and people’s needs.
For more information, please visit www.oxiteno.com.
ABOUT HARKE GROUP
HARKE GROUP is an experienced chemical and pharmaceutical distributor, contract packer, services and solution provider with a strong footprint in Europe and Asia. For more than 50 years, the group is #ConnectingWorldMarkets on 4 continents, in more than 60 countries, for more than 30 industries through its skilled technical sales, for-mulation and logistics experts in 16 subsidiaries. The broad portfolio of high-quality products from solid principals covers the areas of Life Sciences, Home & PersonalCare, I&I, Chemistry, Coatings, Plastics & Polymers, Plastic Products, Packaging & Services and Imaging. With a proven track record, 4 laboratories, 3 contract packing sites and more than 40,000 deliveries per year, HARKE is taking over full responsibility along the whole value chain according to its principle #OnePartnerOneResponsibility. As family-owned company in the 2nd generation with business relationships that exist in part as long as the group itself, and the passion of its employees #TheRightChemistry is more than just a slogan for HARKE, but rather a lived corporate philosophy. The company group offers effective, sustainable and dependable solutions agile and fast.
For more information, please visit www.harke.com.
