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The Catalysts




                                   Chemistry forms the lifeline of pharmaceutical industry. Chemical companies are continuously designing
                                   solutions to address some of the most pressing health challenges of the world.

                                     Excipients,         Added to            Catalyst            Notable catalyst
                                     formulations,       provide unique       technologies have   applications in
                                     vitamins            characteristic       been developed to   synthesis of APIs and
                                     to online process   properties, specialty   enhance product   intermediates exist
                                     monitoring          chemicals have wide   value, while      today. These have also
                                     and reaction        applications at      minimizing waste   helped pharmaceutical
                                     monitoring are      every stage of API   streams, and       companies to develop
                                     all enabled by      development.         improving cycle    cost-efficient processes
                                     chemistry.                               times.             to reduce their
                                                                                                 environmental
                                                                                                 footprint

                                   Innovations in chemistry have made sure people live healthier and longer by almost 30 years to the last
                                   century

                                      Chemotherapy and   Premature       Vaccines have   Medical       Prosthetics
                                      other drugs now    babies are      eradicated     devices such   have been
                                      are delivered      kept safe and   once crippling   as pacemakers   made
                                      more accurately in   warm in       diseases       and blood      affordable
                                      plastic patches and   plastic                     bags save      with the use
                                      dissolving discs,   incubators                    lives every    of special
                                      and nanotechnology                                day            plastics made
                                      can deliver drugs                                                possible due
                                      to specific cells                                                to chemicals



























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      52   Chemistry Everywhere
           In Pursuit of Sustainable Development
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